Haley Seven Deers

In the past I have worked as a research assistant on a project titled the Negative Heritage Project where our team's work was focused on issues surrounding the conservation and display of heritage that holds a negative or traumatic legacy. I am also a co-investigator on a project which touches on these same issues. I feel that with this experience that I can contribute to Strand 2.  In regards to Strand 3, historical theory and the way that we write about and conceptualize the past and evidence of the past, is something that I have been keenly interested in over the past year as I approach writing my dissertation for my MA in History.

RESEARCH BIO: During my Bachelor of Arts at UBC - Okanagan, I was affiliated with the AMP Lab. As a research assistant, I worked on both the Negative
Heritage Mapping Project and the Disruptive Technologies and Negative Heritage Project. In 2019, I also took part in a research forum at the University of Patiala, India on the topic of "Heritage, Memory and the Punjabi Landscape." And I am currently a co-investigator for a project funded by the Public Humanities Hub at UBC Okanagan titled "Dear St. Eugene: Residential Schools, Public Engagement and the Erasure of Trauma in (a Post-Truth and Reconciliation) Canada."