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Professor of anthropology at Kenai Peninsula College in Alaska. He is known for his research into the culture, history, and archaeology of the peoples of the Cook Inlet area of Alaska, and in particular has worked closely with the Dena'ina people of the Kenai Peninsula.

His service to the university is further exemplified by his 30 presentations to public school students and teachers as he enhanced their knowledge of the Kenai Peninsula, the State of Alaska and its earliest inhabitants. He serves as an ambassador of the university and has given more than 50 public lectures across the state in his specialty.

From 2001-2014, Boraas had a weekly opinion column in the Anchorage Daily News, and continued his weekly pieces when the newspaper changed hands as the Alaska Dispatch News in 2014 before retiring his column in 2017.

Boraas wrote At This Place from 1986-1988 for the Penninsula Clarion.

He is an author of 15 scholarly articles, numerous articles and two books. 

Boraas worked with the Kenaitze Indian Tribe to help with its response to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and is working with the tribe to develop a program to teach the Dena'ina language.

Professor Boraas has team-taught Dena'ina language classes with Peter Kalifornsky and Donita Peter and current teaches reading and writing the Dena'ina language. He has given professional lectures on such diverse topics as Kenai River fishing history, Kenaitze tribal revitalization, and probed the concept of a sense of place from an anthropological perspective.

Boraas approached tribal members with an overview of what could be found through DNA study, how the study would be conducted, and more.

Members of the Kenaitze Indian Tribe could uncover valuable information about the population’s health and other historical trends through the study of ancestral remains returned to the tribe.