ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Arctic and Northern Studies Contact Information
Administrators
Brandon Boylan, Ph.D.
Director of Arctic and Northern Studies
Professor of Political Science
GRUE 613B
Courses taught by Dr. Boylan:
- PS F452 / ACNS F652 - International Relations of the North
- ACNS F601 - Research Methods and Sources in the North
- ACNS F698 - Non-thesis Research / Project
- ACNS F699 - Thesis
Research interests:
International relations, international security, political violence, separatist movements, Arctic politics and security.
Philip Wight, Ph.D.
Assistant Director of Arctic and Northern Studies
Assistant Professor of History
GRUE 613A
Courses taught:
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ACNS F201 - The Circumpolar North: An Introductory Overview
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HIST F411 / ACNS F611 - Environmental History
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HIST F453 / HONR F453 / ACNS F453 / ACNS F653 - Fire, Ice & the Fate of Humanity: A History of Energy & Climate Change
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HIST F461 / ACNS F661 - History of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ
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HIST F483 / HIST F683 / ACNS F683 - 20th Century History of the Circumpolar North
Dr. Wight advises the B.A. and Graduate Certificate programs.
Research interests:
ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñn history, modern circumpolar history, energy systems, political economy, mobility
and infrastructure, and climate change
Affiliated Faculty
Walkie Charles, Ph.D.
Director of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Native Language Center
Associate Professor of Yup'ik
BROOKS 107A
Courses taught:
- YUP F101X - Elementary Central Yup'ik I
- YUP F102X - Elementary Central Yup'ik II
- YUP F201 - Intermediate Central Yup'ik I
- YUP F202 - Intermediate Central Yup'ik II
- YUP F301 - Advanced Central Yup'ik
- YUP F415 - Additional Topics in Advanced Yup'ik
Research specialties and interests:
Dynamic Assessment, Sociocultural Theory, Vygotskian Approaches to Second Language Pedagogy, Second/Foreign Language Assessment (Classroom-based assessment), Theories of Second Language Acquisition, Indigenous Knowledges
Daryl Farmer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
GRUE 862
Courses taught:
- ENGL F270X - Introduction to Creative Writing
- ENGL F377 - Intermediate Creative Writing: Nonfiction
- ENGL F470 - Topics in Creative Writing
- ENGL F661 - Mentored Teaching in English
- ENGL F675 - Internship in Scholarly Publishing
- ENGL F684 - Forms of Nonfiction Prose
Research specialties and interests:
Nonfiction and fiction writing and Literature of the US West.
Alexander Hirsch, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science and Director of Honors College and Climate Scholars
Courses taught:
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Comparative Indigenous Rights
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US Environmental Politics
Research specialties and interests:
Zoë Marie Jones, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Art
FINE ART 409
Courses taught:
- ART F261 - History of World Art I
- ART F262X - History of World Art II
- ART F363 - History of Modern Art
- ART F425 / ART F625 / ACNS F425 / ACNS F625 - Visual Images of the North
- ART F463 / ART F663 - Seminar in Art History
Research specialties:
20th Century art, immigrant artistic communities, art created in times of conflict
Tyler Kirk, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
GRUE 605B
Courses taught by Dr. Kirk:
- HST F315 - Europe: 1900 - 1945
- HST F316 - Europe since 1945
- HIST 466 / ACNS 466 / ACNS F666 - The Russian Arctic
- ACNS F484 - Perspectives on the North
- HIST F600 / ACNS F600 - Perspectives on the North
- HIST F699 - Thesis
Michael Koskey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, Indigenous Studies Programs
BROOKS 306F
Courses taught:
- Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights
- Field Research Methods
- Documenting Indigenous Knowledge
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge
- Education and Socioeconomic Change
- Sustainable Livelihoods and Community Wellbeing
Research specialties and interests:
Oral history, traditional knowledge, ethnohistory, culture change, decolonization, resource use and allocation, community-based participatory research, cultural and intellectual property rights, and indigenous cosmology/mythology.
Yoko Kugo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, Indigenous Studies Programs
BROOKS 306E
Courses taught:
- ANTH 390A Arctic and Subarctic Ethnography (Central Yup'ik Cultures)
- CCX 612 Traditional Ecological Knowledge
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CCX 619 Cultural Atlases
Research specialties and interests:
ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Native food lifeways, ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Native language (Central Yup'ik), ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñn history,
Indigenous place names and way of knowing, oral history, community-based participatory
research, cultural anthropology, geography, and Japanese pioneers in ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ.
Amy Lovecraft, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center for Arctic Policy Studies
GRUE 602B
Courses taught:
- PS 300X - Ethics and Society
- PS 303 - Politics and the Judicial Process
- PS F462 / PS F662 / ACNS F662 - ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Government and Politics
- PS 499 - Senior Thesis
Research specialties and interests:
Policy research: wildland fire, sea ice, marine mammals, freshwater systems & transnational environmental regimes; Environmental political theory addressing rapid change and the far North.
Russell Luke, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science
GRUE 601B
- PS F101 - Introduction to American Government and Politics
- PS F302 - Congress and Public Policy
- PS F403/ACNS F603 - Public Policy
American politics, public opinion, political psychology, research methods
Leslie McCartney, M.A.
Professor of Library Science, Curator of Oral History
- ANTH F470 / ANTH F670 / ACNS F470 / ACNS F670 - Oral Sources: Issues in Documentation
Chanda Meek, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science
GRUE 603B
Courses taught:
- PS F101X - Introduction to American Government and Politics
- PS F447 / PS F647 / ACNS F647 - U.S. Environmental Politics
- PS F469 / PS F669 / ACNS F669 - Arctic Politics and Governance
- PS F499 - Senior Thesis
Research specialties and interests:
Resilience of Northern social-ecological systems, natural resource & environmental policy & politics, human dimensions of wildlife management, indigenous-state power-sharing arrangements, cross-scale policy implementation
Neall Pogue
Assistant Professor of American History
GRUE 604C
Jennifer Schell, Ph.D.
Professor of English
GRUE 854
Courses taught:
- ENGL F307 - Survey of American Literature: Civil War to the Present
- ENGL F310 - Literary Criticism
- ENGL F360 - Multiethnic American Literature
- ENGL F612 - Studies in American Literature after 1918
- ENGL F620 / ACNS F620 - Images of the North
Research specialties and interests:
Circumpolar literature and film, ecogothic and eco-horror, critical animal studies, extinction studies, climate writing, and environmental justice.
Viktor Shmagin
Assistant Professor of History
GRUE 606C
HIST 333: Foundations of Japanese History
Jeremy Speight, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science
GRUE 602A
Courses taught:
- PS F202 - Democracy and Global Society
- PS F222 - Political Science Research Methods
- PS F458 / PS F658 / ACNS F658 - Comparative Environmental Politics
- PS F475 - Internship in Public Affairs
- PS F499 - Senior Thesis
- ACNS F689 - Thesis Writing Workshop
- PS F699 - MA Thesis
Research specialties and interests:
Yue Sun
Assistant Professor of Upper Strings
FINE ARTS 209
Courses Taught:
- MUS F223X / ACNS F223X - ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Native Music
Sveta Yamin-Pasternak
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
BUNNELL 305A
Courses Taught:
- ANTH F100X - Individual, Culture, and Society
- ANTH F336 / EBOT F336 - Ethnomycology
- ANTH F402 - Anthropology of Art
- ANTH F610 / ACNS F610 - Northern Indigenous Peoples and Contemporary Issues
- ANTH F446 / ANTH F646 - Economic Anthropology
Food and culture, ethnomycology, anthropology of art, Circumpolar North, post-Soviet studies
Professor Emeriti
In Memoriam
