URI Marine Affairs PhD Candidate, Kristen Ounanian Awarded 2nd Runner-up in Society for Applied Anthropology Student Paper Competition
URI Marine Affairs PhD Candidate, Kristen Ounanian, placed 2nd runner-up in the Tourism and Heritage Student Paper Competition sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA). Based on an open call for extended abstracts, Kristen was invited to submit her paper, Not a “Museum Town”: Discussions of Authenticity in Coastal Communities, to the competition and present at the SfAA annual meeting in Vancouver, Canada March 29th to April 2nd. Kristen will attend the conference and also present at the session, “Multi-use Issues in Coastal Communities: Fishing, Tourism, Conflict, and Planning,” based on other aspects of her dissertation research.
In May Kristen will present at the 4th Nordic Conference for Rural Research, held in Akureyri, Iceland. Her presentation will be part of session under the theme, “Closing the Marine Commons as a Tool of Resource Governance: Inevitable Developments and Alternative Solutions.” Kristen’s talk is entitled, Existential Fisheries Dependence: Remaining on the Map through Fishing, which is based on her dissertation research.
Kristen’s dissertation examines fisheries dependence and transition in coastal communities. For this research, Kristen studied six coastal communities in Northern Jutland, Denmark and here in New England, which have historically relied on fishing.