Archaeology, ethnography, and history intersect in Marina La Salle’s research based in urban Vancouver, BC. Working towards her Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Marina will investigate how 'heritage' in Pacific Spirit Park is constructed, communicated, and controlled by affected communities, and the role that such heritage plays in contemporary views of history. As one of our first Graduate Student Associates, Marina will look at the complex links between land, tangible and intangible heritage, and culture in contested spaces, asking how the park's history and management create tensions between cultural and civic identities.
Marina has an M.A. in Anthropology from UBC and a B.A. in Archaeology from Simon Fraser University (SFU). Her Ph.D. supervisors are UBC Professor Sue Rowley and SFU Professor George Nicholas. Sue is co-chair of the IPinCH Open Access and Information Systems Working Group. George is Director of the IPinCH project.
Marina helped in the formation of the IPinCH Knowledge Base and hopes to contribute to other project initiatives, including its mandate to explore and facilitate ethical and equitable exchanges of knowledge from and about the past.
We thank Marina for serving as the Student Representative on the IPinCH Steering Committee from 2010 through early 2011.
