Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Alaska Native Leaders Knowledge: Impact on Policy Implementation and Resource Management

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This award supports the dissertation research of an Alaska Native PhD student. Using anthropological methods of ethnographic interviews, open-ended surveys, and archival research, the project will examine the intersection between the formal legal definitions of hunting and fishing rights among the Aleuts of Alaska and local traditional knowledge of these rights. This research will contribute to a discussion of the relationship between knowledge and power in the context of resource management and control in Alaska. The broader impacts of this research are its contributions to the training of the CoPI, a Phd Candidate and an Alaska Native woman, thus increasing the representation of this highly underrepresented group in the social sciences.