EDIC-PDC Workshop by Dr. Emily C. Van Alst

About the event

Title: Table Talks: Collaborative Approaches to Community Engaged Research

Abstract: Community-based participatory research is an emerging but critical form of scholarship that centers community needs, voices, and experiences within research design, methodology, and interpretation. This workshop will review the fundamentals of community-based participatory research, including how to define the community, build long-term relationships, create community-engaged research design and goals, and center the community’s voices in all aspects of the research.  Utilizing my own archaeological community-based project, this workshop will assist those interested in starting or continuing their own research with, by, and for communities.

Bio: Emily C. Van Alst is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Washington State University.  She is an Indigenous archaeologist focused on Indigenous women’s relationships to rock art in the Northwest Plains of the United States. She is broadly interested in reclaiming cultural heritage with, by, and for Indigenous and descendent communities, an important element of community-based anthropology and, more specifically, Indigenous archaeology. She is the co-editor of Indigenizing Archaeology: Putting Theory into Practice.