Dawn D. Biddison
Alaska Collections Project Researcher, ASC Alaska Office

Dawn Biddison is the Alaska Collections Project researcher at the Arctic Studies Center’s Alaska office in Anchorage. In addition to providing project coordination and administrative support, Dawn works with translators on multi-lingual interviews with Alaska Native collaborators and edits transcriptions. This interview material is the basis for her work on a comprehensive database of information on objects to be included in an ASC web site and exhibit at the expanded Anchorage Museum of History and Art. Dawn also assists in education and outreach related to the Alaska Collections Project by supervising interns, writing articles and presenting at conferences.

Dawn’s interest in anthropology began as an undergraduate at Columbia University and University College London where she pursued a cross-cultural emphasis to her study of psychology. Between jobs ranging from drug abuse research in Washington State jails to cooking in the Alaska bush and Antarctica, she traveled extensively in North, Central and South America. Her time with indigenous peoples, along with time spent at museums and remote archaeology sites, led her interest back to anthropology and to dissemination through museum work. Dawn completed her Masters in Anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks while working at its UA Museum in collections, in exhibits and as a guest curator. While conducting fieldwork for her thesis on contemporary Alaska Native art, she was an intern on the Alaska Collections Project at the Anchorage office of the Arctic Studies Center, which led to a job opportunity upon graduation. Calling Alaska her home for over a decade, Dawn looks forward to continued collaborative work that serves Alaska’s diverse communities and of developing her on-the-job work with Alaska Native languages into formal university study.

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