Dr. William Fitzhugh '64, Director, Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC.

He will discuss the record of environmental change and its impacts on two cultural systems, the aboriginal Labrador Indian and Inuit, and the the Greenland Norse. What does this tell us about where the Arctic is headed during the coming century? 

Dr. Fitzhugh is anthropologist who conducts fieldwork and research on circumpolar archaeology, northern cultures, and environments with special attention to human-environmental interactions. He has investigated early Inuit cultures in Quebec and Newfoundland, the origins of reindeer herding in Mongolia, and the ancient art of Bering Sea Eskimos. His interest in the Far North began while a student at Dartmouth canoeing through northern Canada. He has spent more than 30 years studying and publishing on arctic peoples and culture in northern Canada, Alaska, Siberia, and Scandinavia. Two current Dartmouth undergraduates have worked with Dr. Fitzhugh at the Smithsonian and in Newfoundland while on Stefansson Fellowships from the Institute of Arctic Studies at the Dickey Center.