Academics
I am a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. My committee is comprised of Dr. David Dinwoodie (Chair, UNM), Dr. Keith Basso (UNM), Dr. Sylvia Rodriguez (UNM), and Dr. Robert Brightman (Reed College, Oregon).
I am writing a dissertation based on research during 2002, 2003, and 2004 with Tahltan-speaking (Athapaskan) peoples at Iskut, British Columbia, Canada. (Please see Current Research for more information.)
My previous graduate studies were at the University of British Columbia where I completed a Master of Arts in Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology in November, 1995. My thesis there was based on fieldwork with Stó:lō people, Halkomelem speakers (Coast Salish) from the Fraser Valley in southern British Columbia. The thesis was titled “Construction of Local and Pan-Indian Elements in Contemporary Stó:lō Identity.”
My undergraduate degree is a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Canadian History from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. At UofT, I attended Victoria College and graduated in April 1992.
(Page updated October 14, 2005)