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Susan Rowley is Director of the Museum of Anthropology and an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia.  She has worked with Inuit elders and community members on historical research and with Inuit youth on archaeology projects and is currently working with First Nations communities in British Columbia. Since 2005 she has been the Museum of Anthropology’s member on the Steering Group of the Reciprocal Research Network (www.rrncommunity.org). She was a member of the curatorial team for c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city a three-sited exhibition at Musqueam, the Museum of Vancouver and the Museum of Anthropology. Her most recent exhibition was The Fabric of Our Land: Salish Weaving. Her research focuses on material culture studies, representation, repatriation, intellectual property rights, access to cultural heritage and museums.

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