BA Anthropology, University of Alaska, Anchorage, 2008

Supervisor: Charles Menzies

Current Projects:

My thesis research will expand on ethnographic and natural resource management work I have collaborated upon with the community of New Stuyahok in Southwest Alaska.  I am working with one of the few growing fisheries-dependent communities in Alaska, focusing on residents’ understandings of the wider systems they operate within and the strategies employed to establish and sustain cultural autonomy, pride in identity, and economic viability.  I am also documenting subsistence practices at the request of the community in response to the potential threat of an open-pit mine in the region.   2009-2011

Technical consultant for the Sitka Tribe of Alaska (STA) developing Sitka Sound subsistence herring roe conversion factors (Division of Subsistence, Alaska Department of Fish & Game) 2010-2011

Togiak herring roe fishery conversion factors (Division of Subsistence, ADFG) 2011
Copper River Basin comprehensive subsistence baseline study for the community of Chistochina (Division of Subsistence, ADFG and US National Park Service) 2010-2011

Relationships between humans and the environment, political ecology and political economy, the interface of subsistence and commercial fishing, natural resource management and resource conflict, ways of knowing, salmon and herring fisheries, Alaska.

• Fall, James, Davin Holen, Theodore Krieg, Robbin La Vine, Karen Stickman, Michelle Ravenmoon, Jessica Hay, and Jory Stariwat. 2010. The Kvichak watershed subsistence salmon fishery: an ethnographic study. Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Subsistence Technical Paper No. 352, Anchorage
• Fall, James, Davin Holen, Theodore Krieg, Jory Stariwat, Robbin La Vine, Karen Stickman, Michelle Ravenmoon, Jessica Hay. 2009. The Kvichak watershed subsistence salmon fishery:  an ethnographic study, 2008–2009 annual report. Annual Report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of Subsistence Management, to fulfill obligations for Study No. FIS 07-452. Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Subsistence, Anchorage
• Forthcoming. Stariwat, Jory and Theodore Krieg. Lewis Point Fish Camp Ethnography. Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Subsistence Technical Paper No. XXX, Anchorage
• Forthcoming. Holen, Davin, Theodore Krieg, Jory Stariwat, and David Koster. Subsistence harvests and uses of wild resources in Aleknagik, Clark’s Point, and Manokotak. Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Subsistence Technical Paper No. XXX, Anchorage
• Forthcoming. Walker, Robert, Brian Davis, Jesse Dizard, and Jory Stariwat. Retrospective of harvest assessment data methods, Kuskokwim Fisheries Management Area. Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Subsistence Technical Paper No. XXX, Anchorage