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Arctic anthropologist and archaeologist, Dr. Susan A. Kaplan (left), formerly of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History , directs the Peary McMillan Arctic Museum & Arctic Studies Center, and studies Inuit responses to environmental change and Arctic exploration. #Groundbreaker

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