Shannon Tushingham, PhD, is an anthropological archaeologist from Ontario, Canada. Her research explores how humans interact with their environments, with a focus on hunting, gathering, and fishing societies and Native communities in western North America. Most recently a professor at Washington State University, Tushingham joined the Academy in 2023 to further explore human behavior and use of ecosystems over deep time, and to continue her work with ancestral and descendant Indigenous communities of California.
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