culture, media, and performance on the Northwest Coast of North America, both historically
and today. Glass is particularly interested in issues concerning colonialism and indigenous
modernities, cultural brokerage and translation, the politics of intercultural exchange and display,
discourses of tradition and heritage management, and cultural and intellectual property.
Sven Haakanson, Jr.recently joined the faculty at the University of Washington as Associate
Professor of Anthropology and Curator of North American Anthropology, Burke Museum after
having served, from 2000–2013, as Executive Director of the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak,
Alaska. As a native Sugpiaq, archaeologist and artist, Haakanson straddles worlds in an effort
to resuscitate, preserve and give contemporary meaning to indigenous histories and traditions.
Gwyneira Isaacis Curator of North American Ethnology at the National Museum of
Natural History (Smithsonian Institution). Her research investigates the dynamics of and
intersections between culturally specific knowledge systems. Central to this study is her
fieldwork and ethnography of a tribal museum in the Pueblo of Zuni, New Mexico, where
she examined challenges faced by Zunis operating between Zuni and Euro-American
approaches to knowledge.
Ivan Karpwas National Endowment for the Humanities Professor in the Graduate Institute
of Liberal Arts and co-director of the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship at Emory
University. Trained as a social anthropologist, Karp wrote extensively about African societies,
on social organization and social change, social theory, African systems of thought, and
museums and society. His work has been highly influential in thesefields. An online archive
of his published papers is available at.
Corinne A. Kratzis Professor Emerita of Anthropology and African Studies at Emory
University and a Research Associate of the Museum of International Folk Art. She also
co-directed the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship at Emory. Her research interests
span performance theory and analysis, the history and politics of representation in visual and
verbal media, museum and heritage studies, ritual studies, the cultural politics of ethnic
identity and gender relations, and ethnographic knowledge production.
Ana Maria Theresa P. Labradoris Assistant Director of the National Museum of
the Philippines. She is a social anthropologist particularly interested in visual culture and the
application of museum and heritage theory in the Philippines. Labrador’s research considers
the inclusion of traditional approaches in preventive conservation of material culture, as well
as community-based strategies for museum development.
Lea S. McChesneyteaches courses in anthropology and gender at the University of Toledo
and is a research associate at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum. Her primary interests
are the anthropology of art, cultural heritage and value, kinship, and representation.
McChesney is currently involved in a collaborative project with potters of the Hopi First
Mesa community directed at translating local knowledge as a vehicle for educating audiences
in an embodied language of indigenous aesthetics.
Howard Morphyis Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Australian National
University (Canberra). His areas of research include the anthropology of art, aesthetics,
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