Aleksa Alaica, University of British Columbia

Research

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Latest funding

Narratives from Fragments: Re-Thinking Narratives of Manitoba's Archaeology
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$74,995
From the mountains to the sea: Animal management, sustainability and colonization in southern Peru in the 1st millennium CE
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$67,500

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Narratives from Fragments: Re-Thinking Narratives of Manitoba's Archaeology

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Collins, Benjamin

Keywords: Archaeology; Manitoba; Holocene; Community-based; Geochronology; Stable Isotopes; Proteomics; TikTok; Indigenous Researcher Training; Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry

$74,995

From the mountains to the sea: Animal management, sustainability and colonization in southern Peru in the 1st millennium CE

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Alaica, Aleksa

Keywords: Animal Management; Colonization; Interregional Interaction; Andes; Wari; Local Resilience; Pastoralism; State Expansion; Sustainability; Household Archaeology

$67,500

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Alaica, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "From the mountains to the sea: Animal management, sustainability and colonization in southern Peru in the 1st millennium CE" (2022), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]