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S.P.A. (Sean) Desjardins, Dr

Assistant Professor of Anthropological Archaeology
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2024-present: Principal investigator, Tracking long-term resilience in Arctic sociocultural-ecological systems (TRACES-Foxe Basin), Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada; funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant (ERC-StG); fieldwork from 2024

2023-present: Project partner, Chronology of the Norse trans-Atlantic colonies and territories (CONTACT); funded by a European Research Council Consolidator Grant awarded to Michael Dee (RUG Centre for Isotope Research)

2019-22: Principal investigator, Limited choices, lasting traditions: How climate change and colonialism have affected traditional Inuit life, northern Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada; funded by a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO); fieldwork in 2019, 2020 and 2022

2018: Principal investigator, Before Igloolik: Exploring Iglulingmiut settlement and subsistence in the early 20th century, Avvajja (NiHg-1), northern Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada; fieldwork in 2018

2010-16: Principal investigator, The ethnoarchaeology of Neo-Inuit sea-mammal hunting, northern Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada, Department of Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal, QC Canada; funded by a Vanier-CGS scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation; fieldwork in Nunavut in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014; fieldwork in Bristol Bay, Alaska, in 2013

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