- Sedonna Goeman-Shulskyshehers
- Early-Career Fellow
Sedonna is a predoctoral fellow at CDLS working on the project: Bringing Together Diverse Perspectives on Water. Goeman-Shulsky graduated from UC Santa Barbara, where she won the Transfer Student Research Award for her project analyzing faunal remains from a Catalina Island site to identify a prehistoric Sea Lion rookery, so far unique on Pimu (Catalina Island).
She is simultaneously the Archaeology Collections Manager for the Fowler Museum at UCLA, UCLA NAGPRA Project manager, and Project manager of Carrying Our Ancestors Home in addition to her work as a predoctoral fellow. Through these positions, she ensures tribal and researcher access to collections, manages the care and return for Ancestors and their belongings, and investigates the intersections of archaeology, environment, and reciprocal values concerning care of land.
Her current research investigates meaning of access to land and relationships between humans, land, and non-human peoples in Owens Valley and the Los Angeles Basin, particularly as and after colonial powers seized violent control. Broad areas of interest are Indigenous archaeology, environmental change, Native American Studies, and marine ecology.