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Noel D. Broadbent, Ph.D
Professor
Department of Archaeology and Saami Studies
Umeå University
901 87 Umeå, Sweden
Phone: 46-90-786-6225 (office) Fax: 46-90-786-7663
Email: noel.broadbent@arke.umu.se
URL: http://www.umu.se/umu/index_eng.html

Dr. Noel Broadbent is currently a Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Saami Studies at the Umeå University in Sweden. He is also a Research Associate for the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. He received a bachelors degree in anthropology from San Diego State University in California and master's and doctorate degrees in archeology from the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Noel has been a member of the Umeå faculty since 1996, where he is responsible for all graduate research and graduate education programs in the Department of Anthropology.

Noel's current research focus is with the Northern Crossroads Project. This project is a diachronic analysis of northern Swedish prehistory from 9000-500 BP. He has also been working on the ongoing Polar History Project, which looks at the prehistoric landscapes and known historic sites such as the Andree Polar Expedition of 1897.

Noel’s accomplishments include numerous performance awards from the National Science Foundation to an Antarctica Service Medal from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Navy. He was a founding member and serves as a board member on the International Arctic Social Science Association (1990-present). Besides writing and editing research papers, he previously produced two traveling exhibits, “Children of the Ice Age” and the “Umeå University on Norrland culture-history”.

He has extensive lecture experience having given talks to groups all around the world. These include professional and public audiences. He is interested in talking with academic audiences, graduate seminars and the general public.