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Sergei A. Kan

Professor of Anthropology and Native American Studies
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Departments and Programs

  • Anthropology
  • Native American Studies

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Contact Information

Email: sergei.a.kan@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-2550
Office: 6047 Silsby Hall

Education

Moscow State University; B.A. Boston University; M.A. University of Chicago; Ph.D. University of Chicago

Areas of Expertise

Native North America (particularly Alaska and the Northwest Coast); Russian colonialism in Alaska and Siberia; multiethnic Russian Empire; Jewish diaspora; history of anthropology; anthropology of death and dying; anthropology of religion

Selected Works

  • Perspectives on Native North American: Cultures, Histories, and Representations, edited with P T Strong, (2006).
  • Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions and Visions, edited with M Mauze and M Harkin, (2004).
  • Strangers to Relatives: Adoption and Naming of Anthropologists in Native North America, (2001).
  • Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity Through Two Centuries, (1999).
  • Symbolic Immortality: Tlingit Mortuary and Memorial Rituals of the 19th Century, (1989).

Current Projects

Lev Shternberg: Anthropologist, Russian Socialist, Jewish Activist; Vincent Soboleff: A Russian-American Photographer in Tlingit Country