Laura Peers is interested in the meanings thatheritage objects hold for Indigenous peoples today and in relationshipsbetween museums and Indigenous peoples. Her publications includeMuseums and Source Communities (with Alison K. Brown), "Ceremoniesof Renewal: Visits, Relationships and Healing in the MuseumSpace," and
This Is Our Life: Haida Material Heritage andChanging Museum Practice (with Cara Krmpotich).
Alison K.Brown's research addresses the ways in which artifactsand photographs can be used to think about colonialism and itslegacies. Before joining the Department of Anthropology at theUniversity of Aberdeen in 2005, where she is a senior lecturer andco-director (with Nancy Wachowich) of the Northern Colonialism:Historical Connections, Contemporary Lives program, she was ResearchManager for Human History at Glasgow Museums.
