Degrees

Doctorat (Ph.D.), University of Paris 1, Panthéon - Sorbonne, France--(Anthropology, Ethnology, Prehistory), March 2001

Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA) University of Paris 1, Panthéon--Sorbonne (Anthropology, Ethnology, Prehistory), June 1994

Degree in Basic Xylology (wood identification). University of Paris 6, Pierre et Marie Curie, France, June 1994

Maitrise (M.A.) University of Paris 1, Panthéon--Sorbonne, France--(History of Art & Archaeology), Oct. 1993

Licence (B.A.) University of Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne, France--(History of Art & Archaeology), June 1992

RESEARCH INTEREST AND AREA OF EXPERTISE

Ethnoarchaeology of wood use in the Arctic, past and present Inuit wood technology, driftwood transport and circulation, Archaeological wood remains, wood and charcoal identification, tree-ring research.
Primary field research: Alaska, Bering Strait and the Canadian Arctic

 

Current Research

Driftwood in the North Project. The goal of this project is to explore 1) the "production" of driftwood in Alaska and Bering Strait, 2) the mechanisms of wood use by people inhabiting coastal Alaska. It includes: building floodplain white spruce tree-ring chronologies along the Yukon and the Kuskokwim rivers; crossdating driftwood from coastal Alaska; documenting traditional ecological and technological knowledge on driftwood in riverine and coastal areas; working with communities of Southwestern Alaska to record Yup'ik terminology of wood and wood working. Analyzing archaeological collections from western and northwestern Alaska.

Wooden Artifacts from Qitchauvik, Golovin Bay. In O.K. Mason, M. L. Ganley, M Sweeney, C. Alix & V. Barber Eds., Qitchauvik: An Ipiutak Outlier in Golovnin Bay. Report to the Shared Beringian Program, National Park Service, Anchorage.