Smythe, Charles W. | Sealaska Heritage Institute Archives
Name: Smythe, Charles W.
Historical Note: Charles “Chuck” W. Smythe is a Cultural Anthropologist who received his Ph.D in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oregon in 1978. In 2013 he was hired as the Sealaska Heritage Institute’s Cultural Anthropologist. Prior to this, from 2001 to 2013 he worked for the National Park Service, Northeast Region, as a Cultural Anthropologist, and from 1994-2000 he worked as a Cultural Anthropologist for the Repatriation Office, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. From 1982 to 1993 he worked in various positions within Alaska in the anthropology field.