Samantha Walker

I am an anthropological archaeologist whose research focuses on the social production of place and landscape in Eastern and Northern Canada.  I specialize in geospatial and community-based participatory research methods, which I apply to research questions derived from social theories of historicity, materiality, and performativity. More broadly, my work explores the inseparability of social and scientific information, and how relational knowledge frameworks — especially those informed by collaborative research with stakeholder communities — can permit more inclusive and historically contingent narratives of archaeological landscapes and living heritage.

Alongside my research, I run educational and outreach programs for young people in the communities I conduct my work, most of which takes place in Inuit Nunangat (the Inuit homeland of the Canadian Arctic) and Ontario. I currently also serve on the Board of Directors for the Ontario Archaeological Society.