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Education
PhD, University of Michigan
MA, University of Michigan
Graduate Certificate, University of Michigan
BA, Union College
About Me
At Auburn Christopher Berk has taught a number of courses, including Culture and Adaptation, Language and Culture, Museum Studies in Anthropology, and Anthropology and Fiction. He has also taught multiple courses in Indigenous Studies.
Berk has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Tasmania, Australia since 2004. In 2019 he was a faculty fellow during the Smithsonian's Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA) at the National Museum of Natural History. He has led a cultural anthropology field course in Sitka, Alaska since 2023.
Publications
- Berk, Christopher D. 2023. “On Stone Tools and the ‘Prehistoric’: The Value of Tasmanian Aboriginality at the Smithsonian.” History and Anthropology, July, 1–20.
- Berk, Christopher D. 2022. “Tasmanian Aboriginal Material Culture, Compensation, Belonging.” Museum Anthropology 45 (1): 15-27.
- Berk, Christopher D. 2020. “Navigating Cultural Intimacy in Tasmanian Aboriginal Public Culture.” Cultural Dynamics 32 (3): 196-212.
- Berk, Christopher D. and Joshua B. Friedman. 2020. “The Intimate Workings of Culture: An Introduction.” Cultural Dynamics 32 (3): 141-150.
- Berk, Christopher. 2017. "Palawa Kani and the Value of Language in Aboriginal Tasmania." Oceania 87 (1): 2-20.
- Berk, Christopher. 2015. "This Exhibition is About Now: Tasmanian Aboriginality at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery." Museum Anthropology 38 (2): 149-162.