Sedonna Goeman-Shulsky is a Ph.D. Candidate at UCLA’s IoES, conducting research in Western New York regarding fishing culture and access amongst Settler and Haudenosaunee communities. She utilizes archival research, ethnographic interviews, and oral histories to understand people’s historically embedded relationships with key fish that live in the waters in and between the Great Lakes Erie and Ontario, in traditional Seneca territory. Her research will expand theorizations of relationality and access to water in Environmental Anthropology and Indigenous studies, and contribute to strategies for community engagement amongst environmental management agencies and organizations.
In addition to her scholarship, she regularly participates in community-engaged research projects, including Carrying Our Ancestors Home, Centering Tribal Stories (project manager), and formerly the Haudenosaunee Archive Resource and Knowledge Portal (project manager). She has also worked for the Native American Land Conservancy as a Tribal Outreach Specialist and Cogstone as an archaeological monitor. Goeman-Shulsky is a Eugene V. Cota Robles fellow, has received the Barbara Y. Maida Award, the Graduate Research Mentorship fellowship, the Graduate Deans Scholars award, and the NSF Scholarship for Archaeological Training for Native Americans and Native Hawaiians in 2021 from the Society for American Archaeologists.