2 pm on June 2, 2025 | Virtual
Zoom Link
The Arctic Studies 2025 annual ‘Burch Lecture’ will feature Dr. Aron L. Crowell. Dr. Aron L. Crowell is an Arctic archaeologist and former Alaska Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Arctic Studies Center in Anchorage. His research in collaboration with Alaska Native communities has examined cultural adaptations to coastal ecosystems, historical ecology, cultural landscapes, tectonic and glacial impacts, and Indigenous ecological knowledge. His recent books and edited volumes include Laaxaayík: Near the Glacier: Indigenous History and Ecology at Yakutat Fiord, Alaska (Smithsonian Scholarly Press 2024) and Arctic Crashes: People and Animals in the Changing North (with Igor Krupnik, Smithsonian Scholarly Press, 2020), and Archaeology and the Capitalist World System: A Study from Russian America (Plenum Press, 1998). Crowell has led or cocurated Smithsonian exhibitions includingLooking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People (2001); Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait (2009), and Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska (2010).