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This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This research project examines transformations in the relationship between race and biopolitics in Sitka, Alaska, focusing on infectious disease outbreaks over the past 200 years. Specifically, I interrogate the intersection of whiteness and infectious disease and suggest that the politicized concept of whiteness has shifted dramatically. I hypothesize that: 1) over the course of Russian and...
Our Submerged Past: Exploring Inundated Late Pleistocene Caves in Southeast Alaska with SUNFISH (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Exploration-Forward Archaeology Through Community-Driven Research", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Our Submerged Past’s NOAA OER-funded project surveyed, mapped, and sampled caves and overhangs on the continental shelf west of Prince of Wales Island in southeast Alaska. Sea levels were as much as -165 m lower during the last glacial maximum exposing a large continental shelf. The project goal is to identify...
A Review of the Antiquity and Distribution of Intertidal Fishing Technology in Southeast Alaska and Future Research Inquiry (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Important questions related to the innovation of intertidal fishing on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America remain, including when and where different versions of this technology were first used. This poster provides a brief overview of this phenomenon in Southeast Alaska using GIS. Additionally, we offer suggestions for future research using...
Tlingit "Streamscaping" as Landesque Capital Formation (2017)
The Tlingit heen sati ("stream master") was responsible for establishing and maintaining respectful relations with salmon as a trustee for his clan. The portfolio of obligations included both pragmatic duties controlling access and harvests and ritual responsibilities, such as greeting the arrival of salmon each year with welcoming ceremonies, practices anchored to the Salmon Boy mythic charter that identified the fundamental similarity of humans to salmon as persons. Another dimension of...