Evelyn Plaice (Associate Professor)
Dr. Evie Plaice came to the University of New Brunswick as Associate Professor of Social Anthropology in1999, where she is cross-appointed between the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Arts. She holds degrees in Anthropology from Oxford Polytechnic (BA), Memorial University (MA), and the University of Manchester (PhD), and has worked in Britain, South Africa, and Canada.
Dr Plaice has studied land restitution processes in both Canada and South Africa, with specific interests in subsistence land use activities and how these shape ways of living and ethnic identity. Her most extensive ethnographic fieldwork has been on land claims and identity management with the Aboriginal people of Labrador, particularly the Metis.
In Education, Dr Plaice is affiliated with the Mi’kmaq Maliseet Institute where her interests include Aboriginal knowledge systems, multicultural teaching, and postcolonialism in education. She has been involved in establishing two new areas in Education: the Masters programme in Critical Studies in Education; and the Anthropology of Education through courses at both graduate and undergraduate levels.
As part of a Memorial University based research team working in conjunction with the Labrador Metis Nation over the next few years, Dr Plaice is preparing to develop curriculum materials on the archaeology, history and heritage of the southeastern Labrador coast. She is currently on sabbatical leave, and during the spring term will be honorary Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Courses Taught:
- ANTH 2144 Organising Society
- ANTH 3662 Canada’s First Nations
- ANTH 3665 The Circumpolar World
- ANTH 4244 Ethnopolitics and Identity
- ANTH 5684 The Anthropology of Knowledge
Research:
Website
http://labradorcura.com/site/
Contact Information:
Office: Annex C, Rm. 26
Phone: (506) 452-6174
Fax: (506) 453-5071
