Alutiiq Museum, the MacArthur Prize, and Dr Lydia Black

Sven Haakanson, director of the Alutiiq Museum, was honored by a MacArthur Fellowship this week, a well-deserved recognition. He credits Lydia Black with spurring his interest in anthropology and in pursuing a doctorate degree as a means to doing his life’s work.

• Alaska Public Radio News MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ awarded to Alutiiq Museum director
  http://aprn.org/2007/09/25/macarthur-genius-grant-awarded-to-alutiiq-museum-director/

• Anchorage Daily News article
  http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/rural/story/9329624p-9244769c.html

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