Michael Asch
Michael Asch | |
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| Born | Michael I. Asch April 9, 1943 |
| Education | B.A. University of Chicago Ph.D. Columbia University |
| Occupation | Anthropologist |
| Spouse | Margaret Asch |
| Parent | Moses Asch |
| Family | Sholem Asch (grandfather) |
Michael I. Asch (born April 9, 1943) is an anthropologist in Canada. He became Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta and works as a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria. Much of his work over the years has focused on issues of Indigenous rights and indigenous-settler relations in Canada.
Asch received a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 2002 as a part of the Academy of Social Sciences.
He has been a part of several research projects and non-profit initiatives such as Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (iPinCH) and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Asch is also credited as being one of the founding members the Canadian Anthropology Society/la société canadienne d'anthropologie (CASCA).