Donald Wetherell, Athabasca University
Professor
Athabasca, Alberta
donaldw@athabascau.ca
Office:
(186) 638-0528 ext. 7
(780) 220-9295
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Bio/Research
Between 2001 and 2006 I taught Museum and Heritage Studies at the University of Calgary. Prior to this, I had worked in the heritage field for almost twenty years as a consultant (based in Edmonton) and had also worked as a volunteer with a range of heritage groups and agencies.
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Bio/Research
Between 2001 and 2006 I taught Museum and Heritage Studies at the University of Calgary. Prior to this, I had worked in the heritage field for almost twenty years as a consultant (based in Edmonton) and had also worked as a volunteer with a range of heritage groups and agencies.
My involvement with the Heritage Resources Management program at AU thus expresses a long professional interest and commitment. I have been drawn to how we find meaning through the remnants of the past-texts and memories, artefacts, buildings, landscapes and impressions on the earth. Always there is a sense of how incomplete and sometimes arbitrary these records and traces are, and how the things that survived by accident or design now shape how we imagine and re-imagine past lives. Rather than an obstacle, this incompleteness is tantalizing because it gives us so many different ways to glimpse what life has been like, and to understand what it has meant, and continues to mean, to be human.
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My involvement with the Heritage Resources Management program at AU thus expresses a long professional interest and commitment. I have been drawn to how we find meaning through the remnants of the past-texts and memories, artefacts, buildings, landscapes and impressions on the earth. Always there is a sense of how incomplete and sometimes arbitrary these records and traces are, and how the things that survived by accident or design now shape how we imagine and re-imagine past lives. Rather than an obstacle, this incompleteness is tantalizing because it gives us so many different ways to glimpse what life has been like, and to understand what it has meant, and continues to mean, to be human.
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