SVEN DAVID HAAKANSON, JR., Ph.D. Home: University of Washington Burke Museum: 6522 19th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98115 Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195 EDUCATION Ph. D. Anthropology, M.A. Anthropology B.A. English Harvard University, 2000 Harvard University, 1996 University of Alaska, 1992 WORK EXPERIENCE • University of Washington, Associate Professor Anthropology & Curator Burke Museum 2013-Present • Executive Director; Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository 2000-2013 • Adjunct Faculty Member; Kodiak College, University of Alaska Anchorage 2000-2013 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Research: • Cape Alitak Petroglyph Survey 2000-Present • Archaeological Survey of remote Eastern Islands in Indonesia with Dr. Peter Lape. 2019 • Collaborated with traditional canoe carver (Tyson Simmons) and kayak (Alfred Naumoff) 2018-19 • Constructing a traditional Sugpiat kayak, paddles, and halibut hooks, Akhiok Kids Camp 2017-19 • Survey of Alphonse Pinart’s kayaking route from Unalaska to Kodiak by boat. 2017, 2019 • Construction of two full-sized Angyaaq, Burke Museum and Village of Akhiok 2015-16 • Analysis of Ethnographic Collections from Alaska in museum around the world. 2000-Present • Ethnoarchaeological research among the Nenets Reindeer Herders, Yamal, Russia 1996-97 Museum Collection Research: • Moving the Burke museum and designing a new exhibition for the New Cultural Gallery 2016-2019 • Surveys of Alutiiq objects in French, Finish, English, German, Scottish, and Russian Museums 2002-Present Exhibitions coordinated and designed: • Co-curated “Culture is Living” gallery in the New Burke and other exhibits in the Burke 2016-2019 • The Cape Alitak Petroglyphs, Alutiiq Museum 5/2011- 1/2014 • Giinaquq: Like A Face, Kodiak, AK and Anchorage, AK. International Exhibition 2008-2009 • Traveling Traditions – Featuring Alutiiq Arts, Kodiak villages & the Alutiiq Museum 2001-2013 Publications: • Haakanson, Sven. Carving Petroglyphs. In Igaruacirpet: Our Way of Making Designs. (2018) • Steffian, Amy and Sven Haakanson. A World of Rock Art, Chapter 2. In Igaruacirpet: Our Way of Making Designs. (2018) • Article on traditional angyaaq models and their relevance to indigenous communities. (Lubeck, Germany 2018) • Creative Alaska: A Ten-Year Retrospective on Support for Alaska Artists. University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks. Haakanson, Sven and Amy Steffian, Amy (2016) • Living Alaska: Traveling Exhibition Catalogue. Anchorage Museum and Rasmuson Foundation. Haakanson, Sven and Amy Steffian, Amy (2015) • Haakanson, Sven. Translating Knowledge: uniting Alutiiq people with heritage information. In Museum as Process: Translating Local and Global Knowledges, Raymond A. Silverman, ed., (2015). • Giinaquq: Like A Face – Sugpiaq Masks of the Kodiak Archipelago (2009) University of Alaska Press. • Published articles in peer reviewed journals and books including American Anthropologist, Arctic Anthropology, Caring for American Indian Objects (Minnesota Historical Society), Kodiak, Alaska (Adam Biro, Paris), Looking Both Ways (University of Alaska Press), Stewards of the Sacred (American Association of Museum), To the Aleutians and Beyond (National Museum of Denmark), and others. • Published photographs in National Geographic Magazine 1996-1998, and 2006 Lectures – presented for professional and public gatherings at Vancouver, BC (MOA & AAA) Oxford, England; ICASS at Umea, Sweden, ATALM annually, the Alaska Federation of Natives, Alaska Anthropological Association, American Anthropological Association, American Association of Museums, Musée du quai Branly of Paris, Museums Alaska, WMA, Yale University, Dartmouth College, UC Berkeley, and others. BOARD MEMBERSHIPS • Koniag Inc. 2015- • International Arctic Sci Com. SHWG 2010-2016 • Native Arts & Culture Foundation 2008-Present • Alaska State Council on the Arts 2002-2010 • First Alaskan Institute 2006-Present • Polar Research Board (PRB) 2005-2011 • NMAI 2014-17 AWARDS • ATALM Award: Guardians of Culture and Lifeways Leadership Award 2012 • Museums Alaska Award for Excellence for the Giinaquq: Like A Face exhibition, 2008 • MacArthur Fellow, 2007 .