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Susannah Dowds

Originally from Buffalo, New York, Susannah Dowds first came to Alaska in the summer of 2009 where she worked as an intern at the Hammer Museum in Haines. She earned a master's degree in Northern Studies from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2017, and wrote her master’s thesis on sourdough and western expansionism, She worked as an assistant historian for Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in Skagway, Alaska from 2016 to 2019, where in 2018 she participated in oral history interviews for the "Observing Climate Change in Alaska's National Parks Project Jukebox" project.

Susannah Dowds appears in the following new Jukebox projects:

As Interviewer

Interview Title	Archive #: Oral History	Project	Abstract
Emily Willis, Part 1	2018-14-01_PT.1	Observing Change in Alaska's National Parks	Emily Willis was interviewed on October 4, 2018 by Karen Brewster and Susannah Dowds at Emily's home in Skagway, Alaska. In this first part of a two part interview, Emily talks about her work with herbal and medicinal uses of plants, and environmental changes she has observed while foraging in the woods and working in her backyard garden since moving to Skagway in 2002. She discusses the uses of specific plants, her harvesting and growing techniques, and changes in plants, trees, mushrooms, birds, weather conditions, and the length of the growing season.
Emily Willis, Part 2	2018-14-01_PT.2	Observing Change in Alaska's National Parks	This is the continuation of an interview with Emily Willis on October 4, 2018 by Karen Brewster and Susannah Dowds at Emily's house in Skagway, Alaska. In this second part of a two part interview, Emily leads a walking tour through her garden, stopping along the way to talk about specific plants and their uses, changes she has noticed in plants, her gardening and transplanting techniques, and her successes and failures working with wild and native species in her garden. Karen runs the video camera and Susannah is holding the microphone as they walk on the uneven path through Emily's hillside garden and try to keep up with her as she excitedly talks about plants along the way.