Kate Hennessy

PhD Candidate
MA, Anthropology of Media, University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies
BA, Anthropology (First Class), University of British Columbia

Supervisor: Patrick J. Moore

Email: hennessy[-at-]interchange.ubc.ca

Research interests: My current work with First Nations communities in northern British Columbia, Alberta, and the Yukon uses methods of participatory ethnography while facilitating collaborative community media projects as videographer, trainer and multimedia producer. My research is grounded in the history and trajectory of museum repatriation, and connects this concept to issues of ethnographic representation, new media, intellectual property, and language revitalization.

Current Projects:

Dissertation Project, "Digital Media, Repatriation, and Cultural Revitalization in Northern Athapaskan Communities"

Project Manager (with Amber Ridington), Virtual Museum of Canada Website Project "Dane Wajich:Dane-zaa Stories and Song". Doig River First Nation, Rose Prairie, B.C.

Publications:

2006a Patrick Moore and Kate Hennessy. New Technologies and Contested Ideologies: The Tagish First Voices Project. American Indian Quarterly, Special Issue: Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Literatures 30 (1-2):119-137.

2006b Kate Hennessy. Repatriation and Collaborative Digital Media Projects in Northern Athapaskan Communities. Meridian, Newsletter of the Canadian Polar Commission, Spring/ Summer.

2006c Kate Hennessy and Patrick Moore. Language, Identity and Community Control: The Tagish First Voices Project. In Information Technology and Indigenous People. E. Dyson, M. Hendriks and S. Grant, eds. Hershey, PA: Idea Group.

2004a Peter Biella, Kate Hennessy and Peter Orth. Essential Messages: The Design of Culture-Specific HIV/AIDS Media. Visual Anthropology Review 19 (1-2):13-56.

2004b Kate Hennessy (web author). Visual Anthropology Review 19(1-2), companion CD-ROM.