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JESSICA M. DOLAN, Phd., MSc. Tel.: 315-813-0087 E-mail: [email protected] www.jessica-dolan.com EDUCATION 2016 Ph.D., Anthropology, McGill University, Montréal, Canada 2004 M.Sc., Ethnobotany, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK 1999 B.A., History and Social Science, New School for Social Research, New York, NY 1998 Semester Abroad, School for International Training, Cape Coast, Ghana Citizenship: U.S. citizen (1-year Canadian Work Permit, valid until July 1, 2020) Languages: English (native speaker); French (Intermediate level writing, speaking and comprehension); Mohawk/ Kanienkeha (Introductory); Botanical Latin (through employment and study in plant taxonomy) AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Geographical specialization: Haudenosaunee (Iroquoian) studies; North American Indigenous studies; Ireland Teaching areas: Environmental/ ecological anthropology; Native American and Indigenous studies; environmental studies - policy, management, research design; ethnobotany; ethnobiology and multi- species relationships; land-based learning, traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), and Indigenous knowledge systems; global sustainability studies; introduction to anthropology; social science of food and water; field methods and ethics; community based participatory and engaged research; museum and archival collections-based research; Indigenous mapping. EMPLOYMENT • 2019-20 Fulbright Fellow, University of Guelph, Canada Visiting Research Chair in Indigenous Studies, Guelph Ontario • Current Grant Writer and Program Development Coach, Vermont Wilderness School, planning and grant writing for outdoor education for local elementary and middle schools, and consulting for diversity, anti-racims, equity, and decolonization education in VWS programs. • 2019 New England Grassroots Environmental Grant - Funded Scholar, Indigenous and environmental studies podcast writer, The Brattleboro Words Trail: People, Places and the History of Words in Brattleboro, Vermont • 2019 Adjunct Instructor, “Ethnicity and Diversity in the United States,” Community College of Vermont – Brattleboro, Vermont • 2017 – 18 Environmental Assessment Officer, Thompson Island Youth and Elders 1 Camp Coordinator, Grant Writer, Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Environment Program, Cornwall, Ontario • 2017 Research Assistant, Great Lakes Research Alliance the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures (GRASAC), "Wampum Showcase" Project, Directed by Dr. Margaret Bruchac. • 2017 Research Assistant, First Nations Information Governance Centre, contracted by Dr. Laurence Kirmayer and Dr. Samuel Veissière. • 2017 Lecturer, Indigenous Field Studies Course in the Mohawk Community of Kahnawà:ke, Anthropology Department, McGill University • 2015 North American Projects Coordinator, North American Community Environmental Leadership Exchange, Global Diversity Foundation, Montréal • 2014 Environmental Consultant, Greening Onondaga Compost and Waste Remediation Project, Onondaga Nation, New York • 2013 – 14 Assistant Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, SUNY-ESF • 2008 – 13 Teaching Assistant, McGill University: Environmental Thought, Introduction to Indigenous Studies, Ecological Anthropology, Environmental Research Design, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Legal Anthropology • 2009 – 13 Research Assistant, Anthropology Department, McGill University • 2010 Lecturer, Indigenous Field Studies Course in Kahnawà:ke, Anthropology Department, McGill University • 2004 – 07 Curatorial Assistant, Harvard University Herbaria, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Harvard University • 2004 Internship Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Centre for Economic Botany, London, UK, seed banking and economic botany collections • 1997 – 03 Associate Librarian, Everett Collection, New York, NY Archive Manager, Digital Imaging Specialist, Coordinator of International Promotions PUBLICATIONS Peer-reviewed journal articles, chapters, reviews & reports. Dolan, Jessica. In preparation. Five podcasts on Indigenous and Environmental history of the Brattleboro Area, Brattleboro Words and Places Project. Dolan, Jessica. In preparation. “Kanienkeha’ka (Mohawk) Women’s Relationship with American Ginseng, and Lafitau’s ‘Discovery’ of it in Kahnawa:ke in the early 1700s.” (working title). Dolan, Jessica. In preparation. "The Our Sustenance Field Guide: Haudenosaunee traditional food 2 systems and the revitalization of Indigenous food sovereignty." Accepted to: Settee, Priscilla and Shukla, Shailesh, eds. Indigenous Food Systems: Concepts, Cases, and Conversations. Canadian Scholars/ Women's Press. Toronto, Ontario. Dolan, Jessica. 2018. "Plants that ground us: A letter to my daughter about plant traditions that I learned as child in Vermont." (submitted to Taproot Magazine.) Scott, Katherine, Dolan, Jessica M., and Stewart, Dorothy. In press. "Every time I go on the Land I Learn: Cree Traditional Knowledge and Community Education." In Scott, Colin, Brown, Peter, Labrecque, Jessica, eds. Dialoguing Knowledges: Finding Our Way to Respect and Relationship, University of British Columbia Press. Dolan, Jessica. 2017. "Indigenous Peoples' Day and the Cedar Strip Canoe." In the Brattleboro Reformer, October 4. Dolan, Jessica M. 2016. The Restorative Ecology of Peace: Haudenosaunee Environmental Knowledge and Philosophies of Stewardship (PhD dissertation, Dept. of Anthropology, McGill University). Wenzel, George W., Dolan, Jessica M., And Brown, Chloe. 2016. "Wild Resources, Harvest Data and Food Security in Nunavut's Qikiqtaaluk Region: A Diachronic Analysis." In Arctic (Artic Institute of North America), 69: 2; 147 - 159. Dolan, Jessica M. 2011. "Principles and Practices of Haudenosaunee Environmental Knowledge." International Society of Ethnobiology Newsletter. Volume 3, Special Issue, August 2011. Accessible at: http://ethnobiology.net/news/ise-newsletter/ Dolan, Jessica M. 2009. Book review, Nukak: Ethnoarchaeology of an Amazonian People, by Gustavo Politis. In Economic Botany. 63(2): 217. Bussières, Véronique, Scott, Katherine, Dolan, Jessica M., Stewart, Henry, Mulrennan, Monica and Scott, Colin. 2008. Wemindji Marine and Island surveys 2008. Plant ecology and ethnobotany report presented to representatives from Environment Canada, Parks Canada, Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Grand Council of the Crees, November 20. Dolan, Jessica M. 2007. "Ochtrinil's Legacy: Irish Women's Knowledge of Medicinal Plants." In Harvard Papers in Botany, 12(2): 369. Dolan, Jessica M. 2004. Cultural Transmission of Knowledge of Medicinal Plants Amongst Women in County Kerry, Ireland. (MSc Thesis, Centre for Biocultural Diversity, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom). Visual media. 2016. "NACELE -- Nourishing Relations: People, Plants, and Place," Film made by Inanc Tekguc about the Global Diversity Foundation's North American Community Environmental Leadership Exchange, at the Montréal Botanical Garden in June of 2015. (co-organized and secured funding for conference; edited film with Tekguc and Susannah McCandless; accessible at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npuvkw9XUS8&feature=youtu.be) 2015. "Just In Canada," Interviewed by Justin Douglas about Haudenosaunee environmental philosophies (accessible at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBnpL02MSlg 3 Conferences. 2019. “Ethnobotany of Northeastern Woodlands, Fields and Riverbanks: Indigenous and Naturalized Edible Wild Plants,” with Terrylynn Serasera Brant. Herbstalk. June 1st, Somerville, MA. 2019. ‘What we live on’: Researching common edible and medicinal plants in support of women's lifework in Haudenosaunee communities. Society of Ethnobiology Conference, (8-11 May, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia). 2018. A Field Guide to the Plants and Trees of Haudenosaunee Traditional Knowledge and Food Systems. Conference on Iroquois Research (12 - 14 October, Ganondagan, Victor, New York). 2018. Attended: Intertribal Food Sovereignty Summit, Mashantucket Pequot Museum. 2017. ‘The Restorative Ecology of Peace: Haudenosaunee Environmental Knowledge and Philosophies of Stewardship’. Paper presented at Conference on Iroquois Research (14 -15 October, Oswego, New York). 2017. ‘Our Sustenance, the Plants and the Trees: Cultural Persistence of Wild and Heirloom Food Species in Haudenosaunee Communities’. Paper presented at the Society of Ethnobiology Conference (10 - 13 May, Montréal, Québec). 2016. (Invited Round Table Participant) ‘Defining (and Overcoming) Challenges to Land-Based Self Determination’. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Conference (29 March-2 April, Vancouver, British Columbia). 2016. ‘Turn, Turn, Turn’: Re-animating Multi-species Relations through Tactile-Kinesthetic Learning to Restore Indigenous Landscapes (Paper). Society of Ethnobiology Conference, 16- 20 March, Tuscon, Arizona. (with the Protectors of Mother Earth Committee) 2014. Healing Mother Earth: A Project of Environmental Restoration at Onondaga Nation (Paper). Presented with Adah Shenandoah at the Conference on Iroquois Research, 5 October, New York. 2014. In Creation and Idle No More: Heeding Onkwehonwe Prophecies of Earth Changes as Environmental Knowledge. (Paper) Presented at the Society of Ethnobiology/Society of Economic Botany Joint Conference, 11- 15 May, Eastern Band of Cherokee Nation, NC. 2012. ‘Building the Thinking’: Environmental Consciousness in the Philosophy of Haudenosaunee Leadership. (Paper) Presented at the Conference on Iroquois Research, 6 October, Hope Lake, New York. 2012. 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