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NICHOLAS George
Simon Fraser University
Professor, Chair of Archaeology
ArchaeologyGeorge Nicholas (Professor, Chair of Archaeology) has a long involvement with community-based or -oriented research. He was director of the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH) project (2008-2016). This initiative brought together an international team of 50 scholars, 25 partnering organizations, and 140 Associate and student members to examine the theoretical, ethical, and practical implications of commodification, appropriation, and other flows of knowledge about heritage, and with how these may affect communities, researchers, and other stakeholders (www.sfu.ca/ipinch). Nicholas also developed and directed SFU’s Indigenous Archaeology Program in Kamloops (1991?2005), and has worked closely with the Secwepemc and other First Nations in British Columbia, and Indigenous groups worldwide for 30 years. He has been engaged in community-based research in Canada (Secwepemc, Sto:lo, Blood, Inuit) and the United States (Hopi, Saginaw-Chippewa, Penobscot), Japan (Ainu), New Zealand (Maori), and with various other groups in Australia, Africa, and Kyrgystan. In 2013, he received the inaugural “Partnership Impact Award” from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
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HENNESEY Kate
Simon Fraser University
Associate professor
Anthropology, Interactive ArtsKate Hennessy is an Associate Professor specializing in Media at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT). As an anthropologist of media and the director of the Making Culture Lab at SIAT, her research explores the role of digital technology in the documentation and safeguarding of cultural heritage. Her multimedia research-creation works investigate documentary methodologies to address Indigenous and settler histories of place and space. She is a founding member of the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective, which has curated exhibitions and projects at the intersection of anthropology and contemporary art since 2009. Her work has been published in journals such as Leonardo, Cultural Anthropology, and PUBLIC.
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REIMER Rudy
Simon Fraser University
Associate professor
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WINTER Barbara
Simon Fraser University
Curator
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MELOCHE Chelsea
Simon Fraser University
Doctoral student
ArchaeologyChelsea is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Archaeology at Simon Fraser University, where she is researching the question of what happens after repatriation. For her dissertation research, Chelsea is carrying out a comparative case study to explore community experiences with repatriation processes and outcomes. Her goal for this work is to foster a better understanding of how repatriation may affect those communities seeking to return their ancestors, belongings and cultural knowledge, and, more generally, to consider the role of repatriation within larger reconciliation efforts. Chelsea also has a B.A. in Anthropology and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Windsor, where she worked with a local First Nation to facilitate and document the return of a group of ancestors.
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TARLE Lia
Simon Fraser University
Doctoral student
ArchaeologyLia is a Doctoral Candidate in Archaeology and a Research Associate at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Simon Fraser University in Canada. Her doctoral research focuses on ethical issues relating to human remains in museums, and the varying factors (e.g., cultural/spiritual beliefs, historical and political contingencies) that influence the treatment of institutionalized human remains. Her work addresses changing archaeological and museum ethics, the historical collection and representation of human bodies by museums and scientific institutions, and repatriation issues. Lia has worked as a visiting researcher at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery in the United Kingdom and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in the United States. She has also worked in collections management at the Royal BC Museum and the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography in Canada and was a Research Associate for the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage project. She has worked on archaeological excavations in Europe and North America for the past ten years and has taught archaeology at Simon Fraser University for eight years. She is also on the editorial board for the open-access cultural heritage journal, Inlet: Contributions to Archaeology. Lia has an MA in Archaeology from Simon Fraser University (focusing on clothing use during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition), and a BA (Honours with Distinction) in Anthropology and Hispanic Studies from the University of Victoria, Canada. She has also studied museum curation and communication, public programming and interpretation, and exhibition design through the University of Victoria’s postgraduate Museum Studies program.
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ROWLEY Susan
University of British Columbia
Associate professor
Archaeology and AnthropologySue Rowley works at UBC in the Department of Anthropology and the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at the University of British Columbia. She is Chair of the Museum of Anthropology’s Repatriation Committee and in 2004 initiated the Laboratory of Archaeology’s proactive repatriation project The Journey Home. She is also a member of the Reciprocal Research Network ‘s Steering Group (www.rrncommunity.org). She was a member of the curatorial team for c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city and co-curated the exhibition at MOA with Jordan Wilson. Sue’s most recent exhibition was The Fabric of Our Land: Salish Weaving. Her research focuses on material culture studies, representation, intellectual property rights, repatriation, access to cultural heritage and museums.
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SCHAEPE David
Research and Resource Management Centre of Sto:lo Nation
Director
ArchaeologyDavid M. Schaepe, Director of the Sto:l? Research and Resource Management Centre at Sto:lo Nation, has worked for over thirty years in the fields of archaeology and heritage stewardship. Over the last two decades working for the Sto:l? (People of the River) he gained experience in Indigenous rights and title, archaeological theory and practice, repatriation, cultural landscapes, health and wellbeing, cultural education, and inter-governmental relations. He has published in volumes and journals including the Oxford Handbook on Public Heritage, American Antiquity and Current Anthropology. He was a co-editor and contributor to A Sto:l?-Coast Salish Historical Atlas (2001), and more recently co-editor of Towards a New Ethnohistory (2018) and editor of Being Ts’elxweyeqw: First Peoples’ Voices and History from the Chilliwack-Fraser Valley, British Columbia (2018). He is a member of the provincial Joint Working Group on First Nations Heritage Conservation. He received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia and continues to be gratefully schooled by colleagues and Sto:l? knowledge holders.
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AIRD Karen
Board member for ICOMOS Canada
Coordinator
Cultural HeritageA member of Saulteau First Nations in Treaty 8 Territory of BC, Karen Aird has worked as an archaeologist then in cultural heritage management for the past 23 years on many projects that convey a strong sense of place in Indigenous landscapes, encompassing the stories, legal traditions and the intangible and tangible elements into Indigenous heritage. As a consultant, Karen has worked as the Cultural Heritage Planner for the Treaty 8 Tribal Association, the Tse’K’wa (the Charlie Lake Cave house) Heritage Society and the Nun WaDee (Dane-zaa Caretakers Society); as project coordinator for Tk’emlups te Secwepemc Cultural Heritage Study; and as Curator for the Secwepemc Museum and Heritage Park. And, more recently, Karen has embarked on the position of Heritage Manager for First Peoples Cultural Council. Karen is one of the founding directors and now the President of the National Indigenous Heritage Circle, a non- profit organizations focused on the identification, management, and conservation of Indigenous heritage.
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NIKA Collison Jisgang
Haida Gwaii Musuem
Curator
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Michael Hathaway
Simon Fraser University
Associate, Professor
Cultural anthropologyMichael Hathaway is an associate professor of cultural anthropology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. He studies the intersection of indigenous politics and environmentalism in China, and more recently, has been exploring how indigeneity has emerged in the Asia-Pacific region through transnational encounters. His first book, Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China (University of California Press, 2013) explores how environmentalism was refashioned in China, not only by conservationists but also by rural villagers and even animals themselves. His second major project examines the global commodity chain of the matsutake, one of the world’s most expensive mushrooms, following it from the highlands of the Tibetan Plateau to the markets of urban Japan. He works with other members of the Matsutake Worlds Research Group, looking at the social worlds this mushroom engenders in Canada, the United States, China, and Japan.
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WATKINS Joe
Maryland University
Adjunct Associate professor
ArchaeologyJoe Watkins, a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, has been involved in anthropology for fifty years. He has held a variety of academic, governmental, and private positions through his career. He received his Bachelors of Arts degree from the University of Oklahoma (1973) and his Masters of Arts (1977) and Doctor of Philosophy (1994) degrees from Southern Methodist University. He has served in numerous capacities in international, national, regional and local organizations and has been intensively involved in initiatives at the national level, most recently as President of the Society for American Archaeology (2019-2021). He has published numerous articles and book chapters on the ethical practice of anthropology and anthropology’s relationships with descendant communities including American Indians, Australian Aboriginals, New Zealand Maori, and the Japanese Ainu. His book Indigenous Archaeology: American Indian Values and Scientific Practice (AltaMira Press 2000) defined the international field of practice.
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CUSACK-MCVEIGH Holly
Indiana University-Purdue University
Professor
AnthropologyDr. Holly Cusack-McVeigh is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies in the IU School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She holds appointments as a Public Scholar of Collections and Community Curation and as an Adjunct Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies at IUPUI. She also serves as a Research Affiliate of the University of Alaska Museum of the North and as an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her research focuses on repatriation, cultural heritage, sense of place, community collaboration and museology. Her 2018 publication, Stories Find You, Places Know: Yup’ik Narratives of a Sentient World explores the importance of place in Indigenous communities. Dr. Cusack-McVeigh has worked in repatriation with and for Native American and Indigenous communities for over two decades, including Alaska Native communities, tribes throughout the continental United States, and Indigenous groups in Canada, New Zealand, Peru and South Africa. Her ongoing work with the FBI Art Crime Team exemplifies her broad research and scholarship on cultural heritage, the antiquities trade, looting, and repatriation with Indigenous partners.
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CAROL Ellick
Maryland University
Research Associate, Adjunct Instructor
ArchaeologyMs. Ellick (MA; RPA) is an international expert in the development of public outreach and education programs. In the late 1990s, Ms. Ellick formalized her approach to creating programs and products with a community-based participatory process she titled Parallel Perspectives. In 2010, she established Archaeological and Cultural Education Consultants and in 2016, Ms. Ellick established The Heritage Education Network (THEN), a nonprofit membership organization. Over the course of her 35+ year career, Ms. Ellick has worked in Cultural Resources Management in for-profit firms, nonprofit organizations, and university settings. She has held various adjunct, research specialist, and visiting scholar positions. Ms. Ellick is widely published. In 2011, she and Joe Watkins wrote The Anthropology Graduate’s Guide: From Student to a Career (Left Coast Press). Ms. Ellick is on the Board of the American Cultural Resources Association and is President of The Heritage Education Network.
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GEIGER Andrea
Simon Fraser University
Associate Professor />HistoryAndrea Geiger is an associate professor of history at Simon Fraser University and the author of Subverting Exclusion: Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885-1928 (Yale University Press, 2011). Before turning to academia, she served as a reservation attorney for the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in northeastern Washington state. Her historical research explores ways in which Meiji-era Japanese immigrants negotiated the intensely racialized social, legal, and economic hierarchies that emerged on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including how perceptions of Indigeneity, both in Japan and in North America, shaped historical encounters between Japanese immigrants and Indigenous people along the Pacific coast. She is also interested in the comparative study of the separate bodies of exclusionary law and policy applied to Indigenous peoples in Canada, the U.S., and Japan and, in Canada and the U.S., to Japanese immigrants.
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HARRISON Scott
Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
Curator
Program ManagerScott Harrison (PhD, History) is Program Manager at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, a not-for-profit think tank focused on Canada-Asia relations. His research examines Canada-Asia business and policy, paradiplomacy, building Asia-related competencies for Canadians, global Indigenous peoples, Cold War history, and indigeneity in Asia. Publications include, “Meiji Inspired Diplomacy and Politics for Japan’s Future,” in Japan’s Future and a New Meiji Transformation: International Reflections (Routledge, forthcoming 2019); “Canadian Provinces and Foreign Policy in Asia,” International Journal (2018); “The Cold War, the San Francisco System and Indigenous Peoples,” in The San Francisco System and Its Legacies (Routledge, 2015); and “The Indigenous Ainu of Japan at the Time of the Åland Settlement,” in Northern Territories, Asia-Pacific Regional Conflicts and the Aland Experience (Routledge, 2009); and The Indigenous Ainu of Japan and the Northern Territories Dispute (VDM Verlag, 2008).
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KADIR Aynur
Simon Fraser University
Postdoctoral Fellow
AnthropologyAynur Kadir is an ethnographic filmmaker, Postdoctoral Fellow at SIAT’s Making Culture Lab, Simon Fraser University and a Visiting Media Curator at the Bill Reid Gallery of North West Coast Art, BC. She works with Uyghur communities in northwest China and First Nation communities in the Pacific Northwest to develop digital media that document, manage, safeguard, and represent indigenous cultural heritage and history. Her research explores how different new media such as documentaries (both traditional and interactive), digital archive databases, virtual museums and interactive museum technologies could be designed with a participatory methodology in order to preserve and facilitate access to traditional knowledge and cultural heritage. In her video and multimedia work, she deploys community-based methodologies to address Indigenous representation, ethics, authenticity and cultural property issues from the community perspective. She is teaching classes on videography, photography and multi-media design at SIAT, developing media components to exhibitions at BRG, and playing active role in the Society for Visual Anthropology.
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