Melissa F. Baird, Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae September 2015 Social Sciences Department Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Drive Houghton, MI 49931 541.232.5364 mfbaird@mtu.edu EDUCATION 2009 Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Oregon 2003 M.S. Anthropology, University of Oregon 1998 B.A. Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley Summa cum laude Phi Beta Kappa Departmental Citation, Outstanding Graduating Senior PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 2013 Assistant Professor of Anthropology Department of Social Sciences, Michigan Technological University 2011-­‐13 Postdoctoral Scholar of Global Heritage and Environment Stanford University Stanford Archaeology Center, Department of Anthropology and Woods Institute for the Environment PUBLICATIONS Books In review Critical Heritage Landscapes. Cultural Heritage Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. Refereed Journal Articles 2014 “Heritage, Human Rights, and Social Justice.” Heritage & Society 7 (2):139-­‐155. 2012 “The Breath of the Mountain is my Heart”: Indigenous Cultural Landscapes and the Politics of Heritage. International Journal of Heritage Studies. 19 (4): 327-­‐ 340. 2008 Baird, Melissa F. and Ruthann Knudson. "In the Spirit of Old Friends: Reflections on Repatriation at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument." Heritage of the Great Plains XLI (2). 2006 "Frederica de Laguna and the Study of Pre-­‐Contact Pictographs from Coastal Sites in Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound, Alaska. Arctic Anthropology 43 (2): 136-­‐147. 2004 "Whales, Boats and Anthropomorphs: Iconographic and Contextual Analyses of Two Pictograph Sites in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska. Journal of Northwest Anthropology 38(2):179-­‐194. Editor 2015 "Resource Frontiers in Western Australia." Hot Spots. Cultural Anthropology Online (co-­‐editor Jane Lydon). Book Chapters 2015 "Indigenous Cultural Landscapes and the Politics of Heritage." In Cultural Heritage Rights, International Library of Essays on Rights. Anthony J. Connolly (ed.). London: Ashgate. 2015 “Heritage Ecologies and the Rhetoric of Nature.” In Heritage Keywords, Kathryn Lafrenze Samuels and Trinidad Rico (eds.). Boulder: University Press of Colorado Press. 2015 Coombe, Rosemary and Melissa F. Baird. “The Limits of Heritage: Rights-­‐ Based Struggles on Resource Frontiers.” In A Companion to Heritage Studies, William Logan, Ulrich Kockel and Máiréad Nic Craith (eds.). Wiley Blackwell. Refereed Articles (Other) 2015 "Aboriginal Country and the New Heritage Landscapes of the Pilbara." Hot Spots. Cultural Anthropology Online. 2015 "The Pilbara Crisis: Resource Frontiers in Western Australia." Hot Spots. Cultural Anthropology Online. (co-­‐author, Jane Lydon) Encyclopedia Entries 2014 UNESCOs World Heritage List Nominations and Processes. Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (EGA), Springer Publishers . Manuscripts in Submission "Extractive Industries, Corporate Discourse, and Indigenous Heritage Landscapes." Routledge Press (in review). Manuscripts in Preparation Resource Frontiers and the Politics of Extraction, JSA The Role of the Critical Heritage Theorist in Resource Frontiers, IJHS Heritage as Anthropology, CA The "Wealth of Nature": Environmental Frameworks and Heritage Other Publications 1999 Burke, Jarrod and Melissa F. Baird (1999) Preparing for the Future: Student Participation in National Curricular Reform. Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Bulletin 17(2): 15-­‐16. 2 FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, & HONORS National 2008 Wenner-­‐Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant 2001 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (3-­‐years) 1998 Phi Beta Kappa Regional 2008 Oregon Humanities Center Graduate Dissertation Fellowship 2004 Northwest Anthropological Society Student Paper Competition 2001 Alaska Anthropological Association Graduate Student Award University 2012 Travel Award, Stanford University (Woods Institute for the Environment) 2011 Travel Award, Stanford University (Stanford Archaeology Center) 2009 Theodore Stern Distinguished Teaching Fellowship 2008 Anthropology Department Graduate Travel Award 2007 Homer Barnett Distinguished Teaching Fellowship 2007 Luther S. Cressman Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award 2004 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Department of Anthropology (-­‐2006) 2005 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Ethnic Studies (-­‐2009) 2001 University of Oregon Graduate Research Award 2001 Anthropology Department Graduate Travel Award 1999 Theodore D. McCown Prize, U.C. Berkeley 1998 Haas Scholars Research Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley (2 years) 1997 McFarland Scholarship, U.C. Berkeley RESEARCH GRANTS 2014 “Resource Frontiers and the New Heritage Landscapes.” Research Excellence Fund, Scholarship and Creativity Grants (REF-­‐SCG), Michigan Technological University
($15,000) 2013 “Western Resource Frontiers: How Indigenous People, Mining, and Heritage in Australia and the United States shape our Nations.” US Asia Centre Research Grant. Jane Lydon (UWA), Aileen Walsh (UWA), Alistair Paterson (UWA), Lynn Meskell (Stanford), and Melissa Baird (MTU). ($10,000) 2011 “It’s All About the Land”: The Intersections of Environmental and Cultural Heritage." IPinCH (IP Issues in Cultural Heritage Project), Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada ($5,000), declined 2005 "Prince William Sound Rock Art Recording Project, Alaska," USDA Forest Service, Chugach National Forest ($8,000) 2001 "Analysis and Preservation of the Clam Cove and Tuxedni Bay Pictograph Sites," Alaska ($59,000) 1999 "Analysis of North American Rock Art," U.C. Berkeley, Haas Scholars ($12,000) 3 OTHER (Awards) 2014 Visiting Women Minority Lecture/Scholar Series (VWMLS) 2013 Visiting Women Minority Lecturer/Scholar Series (VWMLS) 2011 Stanford International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined) 2010 Post-­‐Doctoral Associate—Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage Simon Fraser University, Canada INVITED TALKS 2013 “Extractive Industries and Indigenous Heritage Landscapes.” In the “Archaeologies of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’: Debating the Ethics and Politics of Ethnicity and Indigeneity in Archaeology and Heritage Discourse,” Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, Sweden. 2011 " IPINCH Mid-­‐Term Conference, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, September 29-­‐October 3, 2011. CONFERENCE ACTIVITY Conference/Symposia Organized 2013 YES Interdisciplinary Seminar, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford. Oceans and Estuaries: Getting Ocean Stakeholders to the Table: Insights from Three Case Studies. 2013 YES Interdisciplinary Seminar, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford. Water: Divining Water: Locating the Socio-­‐Politics of Water. 2012 YES Interdisciplinary Seminar, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford. Sustainability: Conservation with Communities. Panels Organized 2016 Co-­‐Chair. "Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges." Session for the Association for Critical Heritage Studies, Montreal, Canada (with Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels). 2015 Organized. "Critical Heritage Landscapes." American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado. 2013 Co-­‐Chair "The Anthropology of Resource Frontiers," American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago (with Lindsay Weiss). 2010 Chair. Critical Heritage Studies: Knowledge, Identity, and Power session at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans. 2008 Chair. "The Politics of Place: Heritage Discourses and the Epistemologies of Cultural Landscapes." Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology's 72nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia. 2006 Chair. "The Alaska Rock Art Database (ARAD): A Tool for the Management of Rock Art Sites in Alaska." Organized for Alaska Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Kodiak, AK. 4 1999 Co-­‐Chair. “Communication and Consultation with Native Americans: Toward an Informed Archaeology.” Workshop organized for Society for American Archaeology’s 64th Annual Meeting, Chicago (with Anna Agbie-­‐Davies). Papers Presented 2016 "The Role of the Critical Heritage Theorist" Paper to be presented in the Liberal Arts Conference, "Crossing Disciplines, Crossing Borders," Qatar. 2016 TBD Paper to be presented in session, "Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges." Session for the Association for Critical Heritage Studies, Montreal, Canada. 2014 “Resource Frontiers and the Politics of Extraction in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Northern Wisconsin,” Canberra, Australia. 2013 “Mining and the New Heritage Landscapes.” Paper presented in session, The Anthropology of Resource Frontiers, (co-­‐chair), American Anthropological Association, Chicago. 2013 "Boom! Heritage, Corporations, and Resource Frontiers." Paper presented in The Past for Sale? The Economic Entanglements of Cultural Heritage. University of Massachusetts Amherst Center for Heritage and Society. 2012 “Neoliberal Logics and Indigenous Claim-­‐Making in Heritage.” Paper presented in session, Changing the Subject: Ethnographies of Heritage, Neoliberalism and Development, at the American Anthropological Associations’ Annual Meeting, San Francisco. 2012 “NatureCulture: Heritage and environmental decision-­‐making.” Paper presented at the Association of Critical Heritage Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 2012 “Institutional protection and gatekeeping in heritage: An ethnographic approach.” Paper presented in the session, Critical Heritage Studies: The Ethnographic Approach, at the Association of Critical Heritage Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 2011 "Internal colonization and World Heritage: Contexts, Histories, and the Cultural Politics of Heritage." Paper presented in the Committee for Human Rights sponsored session, Reversing the Legacy of Colonialism in Heritage Research, at the American Anthropological Associations’ Annual Meeting, Montreal. 2010 “With Strength of Tongue as well as Strength of Hand”: Indigenous Cultural Landscapes and the Cultural Politics of Heritage.” Paper presented Critical Heritage Studies: Knowledge, Identity, and Power session at the American Anthropological Associations’ Annual Meeting, New Orleans. 2008 "Universalizing Heritage: Heritage Discourses and the Implications of “Expert” Knowledge." Paper presented at the American Anthropological Associations’ Annual Meeting, San Francisco. 2008 “Ways of Knowing, Ways of Being: Cultural Landscapes and Disjunctures between Western and Indigenous Knowledge Systems.” Paper presented at the International Association for Environmental Philosophy Annual Meeting, Eugene, OR. 5 2007 "The Cultural Landscapes of Northwestern Mongolia: Analysis, Preservation, and Management." Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology's 71st Annual Meeting, Austin. 2006 The Cultural Landscapes of the Mongolian Altai: Toward a New Synthesis." Paper presented at the International Conference on Scythian Archaeology and the Archaeology of the Altai Mountains, Ghent, Belgium. 2006 "A Clear Sited Vision: Frederica de Laguna and the Study of Pre-­‐Contact Pictographs from Coastal Sites in Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound, Alaska." Paper presented at the 14th Annual Arctic Conference, University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Eugene, OR. 2004 "Symbolic and Contextual Analysis of Two Pictograph Sites in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska." Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology's 69th Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada. 2004 "Whales, Boats, and Anthropomorphs: Iconographic and Contextual Analyses of the Clam Cove (49-­‐SEL-­‐006) and Tuxedni Bay (49-­‐KEN-­‐229) Pictograph Sites, Alaska." Paper presented at the 57th Meeting of the Northwest Anthropological Conference, Eugene, OR. 2002 "Clam Cove and Tuxedni Bay Pictographs, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska: Research and Preservation" Poster presented at the Society for American Archaeology's 67th Annual Meeting, Denver (with Madonna Moss). 2002 "Preservation and Analysis of Two Pictograph Sites in Lake Clark National Park (LACL): Preliminary Results from KEN-­‐229 and SEL-­‐006" Paper presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association's Annual Meeting, Anchorage. 2001 “In the Spirit of Old Friends: Reflections on the Repatriation Process at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument” In, Working with Indigenous People and Other Descendant Communities. Paper presented at Society for American Archaeology’s 66th Annual Meeting, New Orleans. Discussant 2016 Discussant. In session, Critical Heritage Landscapes, at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. Campus and Departmental Talks 2013 "Critical Heritage Landscapes.” Nicole Ardoin's Social Ecology Lab, Stanford University. 2012 "Heritage, Human Rights, and Social Justice.” Paper presented in the Stanford Conference on Heritage and Human Rights, Stanford Archaeology Center. 2012 “Why Heritage Matters to the Social and Environmental Sciences.” Paper presented at the Stanford Archaeology Center. 2011 “Taking Heritage Seriously: Cultural Landscapes, Heritage and Environmental Politics and Policies.” Presented at the Stanford Archaeology Center. 2009 "UNESCO and the Politics of Heritage," in invited session Intercultural Conversations,
Center for Intercultural Dialogue, University of Oregon. 6 REPORTS 2006 "The Prince William Sound Rock Art Recording Project, Summer 2005." A Final Report Submitted to the Chugach National Forest, Alaska Region and the Chugach Alaska Corporation, Anchorage, AK. 2005 "49-­‐SEL-­‐006, Clam Cove Pictograph Site, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska." National Register Nomination submitted to the Alaska State Historic Preservation Office, Anchorage, AK. 2005 "49-­‐KEN-­‐229, Tuxedni Bay Pictograph Site, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska." National Register Nomination submitted to the Alaska State Historic Preservation Office, Anchorage, AK. 1999 “NAGPRA Compliance at Agate Fossil Beds and Scotts Bluff National Monuments, Nebraska” Report On file, National Park Service, Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Harrison, NE. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Heritage Management Cultural Anthropology Environmental Anthropology Ethnography World Cultures and Environments Indigenous Political Issues (titled: Am. Indian Political Issues) Heritage Ecologies Ethnic Studies: Historical, Racial and Ethnic Issues Cultural Heritage in Conflict Environmental Archaeology Art and Anthropology The Politics of Anthropology Native North Americans STUDENT ADVISING Graduate Committee member Leonor Medeiros Comprehensive Exams committee John Arnold Leonor Medeiros Sean Gohman Senior Thesis Dillon Wilkins RESEARCH and PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Cultural Heritage and Indigenous Peoples 2014 Resource Frontiers and the New Heritage Landscapes of Western Australia 7 2012 The Anthropology of Resource Frontiers, Western Australia and Northern Territory (Australia) 2011 IPinCH Grant to study intersections environment and cultural heritages 2010 ICOMOS-­‐ICAHM WHS Committee 2010 Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage, Post-­‐doctoral Associate 2008 UNESCO-­‐ICOMOS ICAHM Expert Member 1999 NAGPRA Coordinator, Agate Fossil Beds National Monument Ethnographic Research 2014 Resource Frontiers and the New Heritage Landscapes of Western Australia 2012 The Anthropology of Resource Frontiers (Australia) 2011 Ethnographic analyses of two IPinCH case studies 2007 UNESCO and ICOMOS expert knowledge, Paris and Brussels 2009 UNESCO and ICOMOS expert knowledge, Paris 2005 Chugach Alaska Corporation 1999 NAGPRA Consultation w/28 federally recognized tribes, 1999 Cultural Property Nomination, Agate Fossil Beds National Monument (Lakota) Cultural Landscapes 2008 The Cultural Landscapes of Tongariro (NZ) and Uluru-­‐Kata Tjuta (AUS) national parks 2006 The Cultural Atlas of the Ancient Mongolian Altai: Archaeology and Landscape, Mongolia 2005 The Cultural Landscapes of Coastal Regions of Prince William Sound, Alaska (PI) Archives 2008 ICOMOS archives, Paris, France 2008 UNESCO archives, Paris, France 2007 UNESCO archives, Paris, France 2001 University of Pennsylvania Museum Archives. Frederica de Laguna’s field notes and correspondence 2001 Bryn Mawr College Archives, Frederica de Laguna’s field notes and correspondence 2000 Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, NE. NAGPRA Research and Cultural Property Nomination 1998 Bancroft Library, U.C., Berkeley. Research and Analysis of Western Rock Art Archaeological Excavations and Surveys 2003 Brooks River Cutbank Archaeological Project, Katmai National Park (KATM), Alaska, August-­‐ September 2002 Brooks River Cutbank Archaeological Project, Katmai National Park (KATM), Alaska, July-­‐ September 2001 Tuxedni Bay (KEN-­‐229) and Clam Cove (SEL-­‐006) Pictograph Sites, LACL National Park, Alaska 8 2000 Archaeological Fieldwork, Pacific Legacy 1998 Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project and Field School, Arizona State University 1997 Petaluma Adobe Historical Archaeology, U.C. Berkeley 1997 San Francisco Presidio Archaeological Project, U.C. Berkeley Rock Art Recording 2005 Prince William Sound Rock Art Recording Project, Alaska (PI) 2004 Challis BLM Rock Art Recording Project, ID 2004 Kosciusko Island Rock Art Study, Prince of Wales Archipelago, AK 2001 Tuxedni Bay and Clam Cove pictograph sites, Lake Clark National Park, AK SERVICE TO PROFESSION 2014 Critical Heritage Studies Association Board Member 2013 IUCN-­‐CEESP 2010-­‐ Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH) 2008-­‐ UNESCO -­‐ICOMOS ICAHM Expert Member 1999-­‐2004 Committee on Native American Relations, Society for American Archaeology DEPARTMENTAL/UNIVERSITY SERVICE 2015 Library Information Literacy 2014 Faculty Search Committee, Archaeologist, Social Sciences, MTU 2013 Faculty Search Committee, Spatial Historian, Social Sciences, MTU 2013-­‐ Colloquia Organizer, Social Sciences 2007 University of Oregon Knight Library Committee, Student Representative 2001-­‐03 Knight Library Committee, University of Oregon OTHER SERVICE Peer Review/Publications 2015 Reviewer for Routledge Books 2015 Reviewer for International Journal of Heritage Studies 2014 Reviewer for Journal of Social Archaeology 2013 Reviewer for Current Anthropology 2011 Reviewer for International Journal of Heritage Studies 2010 Reviewer for Otago Press 2008 Reviewer for Arctic Anthropology Grants and External Awards 2015 Reviewer for National Science Foundation (NSF), Dissertation Improvement Grant, SBE 2014 Reviewer for Summer Undergraduate Research Awards (SURF) 2014 Judge for Undergraduate Research Poster Session PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Association of Critical Heritage Studies 2013-­‐ Society for Applied Anthropology 2014-­‐ American Anthropological Association, 1999-­‐ present 9 Society for American Archaeology, 1997-­‐present Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, 2009 International Association of Environmental Philosophy, 2008 Alaska Anthropological Association, 2000 – 06 REFERENCES Lynn Meskell, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. Tel: 650.724.9943 lmeskell@stanford.edu Aletta Biersack, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403. Tel: (541) 346-­‐5110 abiersac@uoregon.edu Nancy Langston, Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI 49931. Tel. nlangston@mtu.edu Barton H. “Buzz” Thompson, Jr. Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law and Perry L. McCarty Director, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, buzzt@stanford.edu 10