GRATITUDE | ASHLI AKINS

THANK YOU

GRACIAS

AÑAY

I am eternally grateful to the mentors, collaborators, community members, research assistants, funders, family, and friends who continue to believe in and support my work.

DOCTORAL

ADVISORY

COMMITTEE

Dr. Wade Davis

Anthropology, UBC

Dr. Kai Chan

Resources, Environment & Sustainability, UBC

Dr. Mark Turin

First Nations & Indigenous Languages, UBC

Dr. Nancy Turner

Environmental Studies, UVic

RESEARCH COLLABORATOR

ARTISTIC COLLABORATORS

Illariy Ch'aska Women's Cooperative

Cancha Cancha

Nueva Esperanza Women's Cooperative

Parobamba

Munay Urpi Weaving Cooperative

Huarán

Tejedores Tradicionales Laraypas Indigenas

Amaru

Mayu Ch'aska Weaving Cooperative

Pitukiska

Lydia Beauregard

Victoria

FUNDERS

Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council

National Geographic Society

Canadian Federation of University Women

Graduate Women International

Vicky Husband

The Firelight Group

Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies

University of British Columbia

Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program

University of British Columbia

Foreign Languages & Area Studies

University of Michigan

Anshela Paravecino Kehuarucho

PROJECT COLLABORATORS

RESEARCH

ASSISTANTS

Beth Luque Huanca Delaplain

Andres Sallo

Alicia Cristina Gallardo

Cusi Saco Chung & Others

Mosqoy

Steve Deroy

The Firelight Group

Tania Herrera Delgado

Casita Huarán

Raleigh Seamster

Google

SUPPORTERS

Mosqoy

Casita Huarán

Google

El Albergue

Langley Fine Arts School

Cloe Whittaker

Dana Schaeffer

Brent & Marka Akins

I am honoured to study, work, and live on traditional Quechua lands of the Andean mountains and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) traditional, unceded, ancestral territory.