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Community-Based and Participatory Research
Community-Based and Participatory Research
I believe that research should be done with people, not on people (Chevalier & Buckles, 2019). This conviction shapes my commitment to community-based and participatory approaches, especially in educational settings where the communities involved are best suited to understand program impact (Durham University, 2015). These projects aim to collaboratively document how place-based education is practiced and experienced, with a focus on understanding outcomes of students, teachers, and communities. The open-access publications listed below reflect this ongoing effort to make research both accessible and accountable to those it is meant to serve.
Bocho, P., & Sivitskis, A. J. (in preparation). Investigating Links Between Place-Based Education Coordination and Successful Implementation - A Cooperative Inquiry Project.
Mercier, A. K., Sivitskis, A. J., Torbert, J., & Vallier, K. (2025). Shaping change locally: a place-based STEM project’s influence on rural elementary and middle grade students. In Frontiers in Education (Vol. 10, p. 1584805). Frontiers Media SA.
Place-Based Education in Bhutan
Place-Based Education in Bhutan
My research focuses on supporting the academic community of Bhutan to pursue authentic inquiry into place-based learning. Through collaboration with university students, faculty, and in-service teachers, we are striving to document place-based practices and opportunities within local communities. This research seeks to incorporate perspectives across ecological, economic, and cultural lenses.
Dema, T., & Sivitskis, A. J. (2025). Using Google Earth Engine to Teach Burn Severity Mapping of Wildfires Across Bhutan. The Geography Teacher, 22(2), 74-82.
Subba, P. B., Sivitskis, A. J., Rana, P., Blon, B. B., & Dahal, R. B. (2022). A place-based approach to the praxis of ethnomathematics education: Investigating woven bamboo doko of southern Bhutan. Journal of Mathematics and Culture, 16(2), 1-32.
Dorji, S., Sivitskis, A. J., Gyeltshen, S., & Dem, N. (2021). Developing a sense of place and empathy through an oral history project: An exploratory study at a Bhutanese College of Education. Studies in Oral History: The Journal of Oral History Australia, (43), 114-141.
Dorji, K., Kinley, & Sivitskis, A. J. (2021). Implementation of Place-Based Education: A case study in a primary school at Talhogang, Bhutan. Creative Education, 12(10), 2390-2409.
Geoarchaeology in Oman
Geoarchaeology in Oman
How has water and resource availability shaped the trajectory of social development and human-environmental interactions? My research contributions to these projects focus on the application of geospatial technologies across the broad themes of archaeological prospection and ancient social-ecological systems mapping. I am deeply grateful for continued opportunities of involvement to these projects, particularly with colleagues at the Johns Hopkins University, University of Sydney, and the Oman Ministry of Heritage and Tourism.
Zaribaf, A., Lehner, J.W., Buffington, A., Dumitru, I.A., Nathan, S., Paulsen, P., Sivitskis, A.J., Dollarhide, E. and Harrower, M.J. (2025). Methodological Advances in Understanding Environmental Constraints on Sustainability and Industrial Periodicity of Ancient Copper Smelting in Southeast Arabia. Open Quaternary, 11(1), 8. https://doi.org/10.5334/oq.14
Paulsen, P., Zaribaf, A., Lehner, J., David-Cuny, H., Dumitru, I., Nathan, S., Sivitskis, A.J., Shannon, J., Wiig, F., Arsenault, B. and Harrower, M. (2024) Architecture, social relations, and trade at small towns and mountain villages in Iron Age Oman. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies (Vol. 53, pp. 194-210).
Zaribaf, A., Lehner, J., Paulsen, P., Dumitru, I. A., Sivitskis, A.J., Arsenault, B., Fisher, B., Buffington, A., Dollarhide, E., & Harrower, M. J. (2024). Socio-political factors influencing early Islamic copper production in Oman. In Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies (Vol. 53, pp. 316-332).
Lehner, J. W., Dumitru, I. A., Buffington, A., Dollarhide, E., Nathan, S., Paulsen, P., Young, M, L., Sivitskis, A, J., Wiig, F., & Harrower, M. J. (2023). Iron Age Copper Metallurgy in Southeast Arabia: A Comparative Perspective. In “And in Length of Days Understanding”(Job 12: 12) Essays on Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond in Honor of Thomas E. Levy (pp. 1391-1417). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Harrower, M. J., Nathan, S., Dumitru, I.A., Lehner, J.W., Paulsen, P., Wiig, F., Sivitskis, A.J., David-Cuny, H., Swerida, J.L., Mazzariello, J.C., Crassard, R., Buffington, A., Taylor, S.P., Al-Jabri, S. (2022). From the Paleolithic to the Islamic Era in Wilayat Yanqul: The Archaeological Water Histories of Oman (ArWHO) Project Survey (2011-2018). Journal of Oman Studies, 22: 1-21.
Sivitskis, A. J., Lehner, J. W., Harrower, M. J., Dumitru, I. A., Paulsen, P. E., Nathan, S., Viete, D.R., Al-Jabri, S., Helwing, B., Wiig, F., Moraetis, D., & Pracejus, B. (2019). Detecting and mapping slag heaps at ancient copper production sites in Oman. Remote Sensing, 11(24), 3014.
Sivitskis, A. J., Harrower, M. J., David‐Cuny, H., Dumitru, I. A., Nathan, S., Wiig, F., Viete, D.R., Lewis, K.W., Taylor, A., Dollarhide, E.N., Zaitchik, B., Al-Jabri, S., Livi, J.T., & Braun, A. (2018). Hyperspectral satellite imagery detection of ancient raw material sources: Soft‐stone vessel production at Aqir al‐Shamoos (Oman). Archaeological Prospection, 25(4), 363-374.
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