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Visiting Scholars
Sealaska Heritage Institute provides logistical support and introductions for researchers whose work may be of benefit to our region, providing SHI can share in the results. The following includes current or recent guests and scholars hosted by SHI:
Seth
Cable
SHI hosted linguistics student Seth Cable, a doctoral candidate from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in
Spring 2005. Seth, whose wife has Tlingit relatives, became interested
in the language after entering MIT's doctoral program and used materials
produced by SHI to study it. He came to SHI as a visiting scholar to
consult with Tlingit speakers Johnny Marks and David Katzeek. Seth was
interested in looking at the order of words in questions versus the
order of words in declarative sentences in Tlingit. He plans to work in
linguistics after he graduates from MIT, one of the country’s top
schools for that field.
Richard
Manning
SHI hosted a doctoral candidate
from the
Institute for Māori Education and Development at Victoria University, in
Wellington New Zealand. His background is in teacher education and he has worked
on numerous social, education and history research projects. Richard is in
Juneau doing research on local Tlingit programs. His thesis involves an
historical analysis of colonial power trends in New Zealand that continue to
determine student knowledge levels about one tribe in the country’s Hutt Valley.
He is particularly interested in lessons that can be learned from the Tlingit
experience in Southeast Alaska.
Kristin Hoelting
SHI hosted a visiting scholar from Harvard University studying current economic development strategies in Kake. Student Kristin Hoelting, under the guidance of SHI President Rosita Worl, will interview Kake
residents of all ages to assess the range of opinions regarding economic
and cultural changes. Hoelting will report to SHI on her findings and use
the information to write her senior thesis. Hoelting is an undergraduate student
pursuing a degree in Environmental Science with a focus on Natural Resource
Management and Community Development. She was in Kake July 9-30, 2002.
Alice Bouvrie
SHI in 2002 hosted Alice Bouvrie, an independent documentary filmmaker based in the Boston area. Bouvrie has spent
the past 15 years as an assistant director on feature films. She also has
produced independent documentaries, including Living Under the Cloud:
Chernobyl Today; Am I Home Yet? Five Au Pairs in Boston; and
Iditarod: A Far Distant Place, which profiled Mike Williams and other
mushers. Bouvrie came to Juneau, in part, to film Celebration 2002.
Dr. Anne-Marie Victor-Howe
SHI in 2002 hosted Dr. Anne-Marie Victor-Howe, an anthropologist
with the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.
Victor-Howe is studying a collection of horn spoons carved by Southeast Alaska
Natives more than a century ago. Click here
to read a news article on the project.