IPinCH is pleased to announce the awarding of five new graduate student fellowships, four for PhD students and one for a student undertaking MA studies. Introducing our new IPinCH Fellows:
Ruth Aloua is a MA student in the Department of Archaeology at Simon Fraser University, where she is supervised by IPinCH team member John Welch. Ruth’s studies examine Hawaiian cultural landscapes as viewed through the eyes of Native Hawaiians, and she seeks to engage Native communities as partners in her archaeological research. Her MA research adopts a case study approach, focusing on the effort to create a community-based stewardship plan in Kaloko-Honokhau National Historical Park in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, and exploring ways of integrating Hawaiian traditional knowledge with archaeological practice. A Native Hawaiian from Kailua-Kona, Ruth’s work is firmly grounded in her own history and experience. View Ruth's IPinCH profile here >
Mique’l Dangeli is a PhD candidate specializing in Northwest Coast First Nations Art History at the University of British Columbia. Her doctoral work focuses on Northwest Coast dance and choreography, exploring issues of identity, self-determination, cultural rights, and sovereignty through ceremonial and public dance performance. She is particularly interested in raising awareness around issues of ownership and use of song and dance among Northwest Coast peoples and how systems of protection, maintenance, and Indigenous copyright interface with intercultural audiences both in live performance and through social media. Mique’l is a member of the Tsimshian Nation and of the Metlakatla Indian Communitty, belonging to the Eagle Clan of the Gispaxlo’ots and holding the Tsimshian name Laxsgiik (Devoted Eagle) and the Tlingit name Taakw Shaawát (Winter Woman). View Mique’l's IPinCH profile here >
Julie Mitchell is a PhD candidate in the Department of Archaeology at Flinders University. The focus of her doctoral work is on the role of materiality in the construction and maintenance of memory and as a means of accessing and transferring intangible cultural heritage. Julie explores these themes through a case study of the South Sea Islander indentured labour diaspora in colonial Australia, looking at how stakeholders have attempted to remember or forget this event and these peoples. Through this study, she seeks to establish a cultural heritage register associated with this group, whose existence has been overlooked in the Australian national narrative, and thus contribute to constructing a foundation on which a connection and sense of place can be built. View Julie's IPinCH profile here >
Émilie Ruffin is a doctoral student at Laval University, specializing in Cultural Geography, and with experience working on cultural dynamics, land, governance, and self-determination issues for Inuit, Algonquian, and Cree peoples in Québec. In broad terms, her doctoral studies look at housing and urban planning in Indigenous communities in Québec. More particularly, she explores the links between urban and residential planning processes and local governance of Inuit and Algonquian communities. Émilie has played a central role in the IPinCH-funded case study of “Cultural Tourism in Nunavik”, working closely with Daniel Gendron and the Avataq Cultural Institute and conducting field research in the Nunavik Inuit communities of Kuujjuaq, Kangiqsualujjuaq, and Kangiqsujjuaq. View Émilie's IPinCH profile here >
Davina Two Bears is a PhD candidate in the Archaeology and Social Context program at Indiana University. Davina’s research examines the history of the Old Leupp Boarding School, a Navajo Indian Boarding School historic site located in the Southwestern part of the Navajo Reservation in Northern Arizona, which was also used as a Japanese Isolation Center during the Second World War. She is particularly interested in better understanding the daily lives of both Navajo children and Japanese prisoners at this site and how they maintained their identity, language, and culture in the face of repressive federal policies. Davina is Diné (Navajo) of the Tódich’ii’nii (Bitter Water) clan, born for the Táchii’nii (Red Running into the Water) clan. View Davina's IPinCH profile here >
