Kent Spiers

Spiers
Term Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology & Geography


kgspiers@alaska.edu

Education

  • BA- Sociology, 新加坡六合彩开奖, 2012
  • MA-Sociology, Lakehead University, 2014
  • PhD-Anthropology, University of Calgary, 2024

Biography

Kent Spiers is an interdisciplinary cultural anthropologist with extensive fieldwork experience across the circumpolar Arctic. His research has primarily concentrated on the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada, with a specific focus on the community of Pond Inlet (Mittimatalik / 釖メ懄釕庒挭釕曖摃釖�). Dr. Spiers鈥� doctoral dissertation, titled Listening to Community: Towards Best Research Practices in Pond Inlet, Nunavut, provides a thorough ethnographic analysis of citizen-engaged research methodologies, including the impacts of colonization. This study was developed and conducted in close collaboration with local community members, addressing both historical and contemporary issues arising from colonial legacies. Furthermore, Dr. Spiers has applied his expertise in both private and public sectors, with particular attention to community-based monitoring, Indigenous knowledge, and the ramifications of climate change within the context of ongoing colonial dynamics.

Anthropology & Geography