Susan Kaplan

Associate Professor of Anthropology
Director of Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
Chair of Sociology and Anthropology Department

Phone 2077253289
Title Associate Professor
Department Sociology And Anthropology
2nd Title Director of Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum & Arctic Studies Center
2nd Department ARCTIC MUSEUM/ARCTIC STUDIES
3rd Title Program Director
3rd Department ARCTIC MUSEUM/ARCTIC STUDIES
Work Location 211A Hubbard Hall
E-Mail skaplan@bowdoin.edu

Fall 2012

  • Animal Planet: Humans and Other Animals (ANTH 321)

Education

B.A (Lake Forest College)
M.A. Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr College)

Susan A. Kaplan, associate professor of anthropology and director of The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center, specializes in anthropology and archaeology of the North American eastern Arctic, particularly Labrador; works in an interdisciplinary context, examining how paleoenvironmental and historical factors affected Inuit culture; works with ethnohistoric still photographs and films of the Arctic; researches the history of exploration of the eastern Arctic.

Recent Work

1997. Developments in Labrador Inuit Archaeology Research. pp. 181-186. In: Fifty Years of Arctic Research, ed. R. Gilberg and H.C. Gullov. Copenhagen: National Museum of Denmark.

in press. with Edmund Searles. Donald B. MacMillan and the Polar Eskimos 1913-1917, forthcoming in Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska.

submitted for review. with Jim Woollett. Choice, Challenge, and Change: The Interplay of Climate, History, and Culture on the Labrador Coast.

Recent grants: LINK: Small-Scale Societies of the North Atlantic. Polar Programs, National Science Foundation.

Bowdoin College Labrador Archaeology Project. Polar Programs, National Science Foundation.

Preservation of Historic Motion Picture Film Collections. Kane Lodge Foundation, Inc.