IPinCH is pleased to announce the awarding of five new graduate student fellowships, three for doctoral students and two for students undertaking MA studies.
Robin Gray, a doctoral student in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was awarded a fellowship to support her work on “the poetics and politics of reclaiming” for Indigenous peoples. Working under the supervision of IPinCH team members Jane Anderson and Sonya Atalay, Robin draws from her own Indigenous (Tsimshian and Mikisew Cree) perspective to explore the role of dance and the repatriation of song recordings in processes of reclaiming cultural heritage.
Erin Hogg has received an IPinCH fellowship for her MA studies in the Department of Archaeology at Simon Fraser University. Supervised by IPinCH team member John Welch, Erin’s studies focus on a comparison of state- and community-based approaches to heritage site conservation. More particularly, her research seeks to identify and better understand the conditions that promote or discourage respectful behavior towards heritage sites.
Claire Poirier is a doctoral student in archaeology at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Claire has been awarded an IPinCH fellowship to support her research into the conflicts that emerge as Plains Cree ceremonial laws and practices, with respect to buffalo in particular, interact with those of the Province of Alberta’s heritage management framework. Her work, which draws from ethnography and science studies, is supported by IPinCH team member (and mentor) Cathy Bell.
Irine Prastio, an MA student in Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology, was awarded an IPinCH fellowship to aid her work on intellectual property rights and Inuvialuit traditional knowledge. She approaches this research through pattern making and sewing techniques in traditional Inuvialuit clothing. Supervised by IPinCH team member Kate Hennessy, since 2010 Irene has been involved in various aspects of the IPinCH-sponsored Inuvialuit Living History project.
Adam Solomonian is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Adam has been awarded an IPinCH fellowship to aid his ethnographic study of shíshálh perspectives and practices surrounding the community’s visual/material cultural heritage, with a particular focus on the circulation and preservation of photographs. Supported by IPinCH team member (and mentor) Sue Rowley, Adam seeks to better understand how such photographs become vibrant cultural objects in need of preservation.
