Kelly Karpala

MA Candidate

I am a second year Master's student in Anthropology at Carleton University, supervised by Dr. Claudio Aporta and Dr. Laidler. For my thesis research I am looking at Inuit perspectives and experiences of climate change, looking at how they talk about climate change and how they may be involved with adaptive strategies or scientific research in the north. In particular I am concentrating on the community of Igloolik, Nunavut. My research will compliment previous and continuous work for the Inuit Sea Ice Use and Occupancy Project which is a International Polar Year project. I am also interested in the acquisition of language and how people attempt to communicate across cultural and epistemological boundaries.

Contact Me:

Department of Sociology & Anthropology

Carleton University

1125 Colonel By Drive

Ottawa, Ontario,  K1S 5B6

Phone: (613) 520-2600 x8165

Fax: (613) 520-4062

Email: kkarpala@connect.carleton.ca