Susan Kaplan, a professor of anthropology and director of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center at Bowdoin College, is an Arctic anthropologist and archaeologist. Working primarily in Labrador, Canada, she studies prehistoric and historic Inuit responses to environmental change and contact with the West using archaeology, ethnohistory, visual anthropology, and paleoenvironmental data. She studies the history of Arctic exploration using the same investigative tools. Finally, she works with material culture, using museum collections to develop exhibitions for the public and to reach out to the northern communities from which artifacts were collected.