Professor Laura Peers

Christofilli Kefalas (2012)
Maori Ways of Knowing: The politics of knowledge surrounding Taonga and the Charles Smith collection

Since graduating, Christo has been a British Museum Future Curator intrm.

Maureen Matthews (2010)
Repatriating Agency: Animacy, Personhood and Agency in the Repatriation of Ojibwe Artefacts

Maureen is now Curator of Ethnography at the Manitoba Museum, Winnipeg.

Cara Krmpotich (2008)
Repatriation and the Production of Kinship and Memory: Anthropological perspectives on the repatriation of Haida ancestral remains

Cara is now Assistant Professor in the Museum Studies programme at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto.

Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts

Books

2015, with Alison K. Brown, Our Ancestors have come to visit: the Blackfoot Shirts Project, Edmonton: Athabasca University Press.

2010, with Carolyn Podruchny, Gathering Places: Essays in Aboriginal and Fur Trade. Histories, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

2007, Playing Ourselves: Native American and First Nations Interpreters at Historic Reconstructions, AltaMira Press: Maryland.

2007, On the treatment of dead enemies: indigenous human remains in Britain in the early 21st century.

2006, with Alison Brown and members of the Kainai Nation, Pictures Bring Us Messages/Sinaakssiiksi Aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa: Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation, University of Toronto Press: Toronto.

2003, Museums and Source Communities: a Routledge Reader, Routledge.

1994, The Ojibwa in Western Canada, 1780-1870, University of Manitoba Press, Native History Series, and St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press: Winnipeg.

1993, with Jacqueline Peterson, Sacred Encounters: Father De Smet and the Indians of the Rocky Mountain West. A Catalogue of the Exhibition, University of Oklahoma Press.

Edited books

2013, with Cara Krmpotich, 'This Is Our Life': Haida people, collections and international museums, Vancouver: UBC Press.

2002, My First Years in the Fur Trade: the Journals of 1802-1804, George Nelson, Minnesota Historical Society Press and McGill-Queen's University Press: St. Paul and Montreal.

1995, with Regina Flannery and John S. Long, Ellen Smallboy: Glimpses of a Cree Woman's Life, Rupert's Land Record Society, McGill-Queen's University Press.

Articles and chapters

2016, ‘A token of remembrance: the gift of a Cree hood, Red River Settlement, 1844', In John Long and Jennifer S.H. Brown (eds) Together We Survive: Ethnographic Intuitions, Friendships and Conversations, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, pp. 107-129.

2013, ‘Ceremonies of Renewal: Visits, Relationships and Healing in the Museum Space', Museum Worlds 1 (1), pp. 136-152. 

2013, with Alison Brown, ‘The Blackfoot Shirts Project: Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit', In Annie E Coombes and Ruth B Phillips (eds) Museum Transformations, Oxford: Blackwells.

2011, with Cara Krmpotich (eds), ‘The Scholar-practitioner expanded: An indigeneous and museum research network', Museum Management and Curatorship (Special issue) v26 (4), 2011.

2009, ‘'Almost true': Peter Rindisbacher's early images of Rupert's Land, 1821-26', Art History 32 (3), June pp. 516-544.

2009. with Alison K. Brown, ‘Colonial Photographs and Postcolonial Relationships: the Kainai-Oxford Photographic Histories Project', In Annis May Timpson (ed.) First Nations, First Thoughts: the impact of Indigenous thought in Canada, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, pp. 123-144.

2009, ‘Material Culture, Identity, and Colonial Society in the Canadian Fur Trade', In Maureen Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin, Women and Things, 1750-1950: Gendered Material Strategies, Ashgate, pp. 55-74.

2009, ‘On the treatment of dead enemies: indigenous human remains in Britain in the early 21st century', In Helen Lambert and Maryon Macdonald (eds) Social Bodies, Berghahn, pp. 77-99.

2004, ‘Repatriation: a gain for science?', Anthropology Today Dec.2004 20 (6), pp. 3–4.

2003, ‘Strands which refuse to be braided: hair samples from Beatrice Blackwood's collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum', Journal of Material Culture 8 (1), pp. 75-96.

2002, with Alison Brown, ‘Sharing Knowledge', Museums Journal, pp. 25-27.

2002, ‘Revising the Past: the Heritage elite and Native peoples in North America', Association of Social Anthropology Monographs 38, pp. 173-188.

2000, ‘A Review of the Chase Manhattan Gallery', Anthropology Today 16 (6), pp. 8–13.

2000, with Jennifer Brown, ‘There is No End to Relationships Among the Indians', The History of the Family: an International Quarterly 4 (4), pp. 529-555.

1999, ‘‘Many Tender Ties': The Shifting Contexts and Meanings of the S BLACK Bag', World Archaeology 31 (2), pp. 288-302.

1999, ‘Playing Ourselves: Native Peoples and Public History Sites', The Public Historian 21 (4), pp. 39-59.