精东影业 Arctic and Northern Studies Contact Information
Administrators
Brandon Boylan, Ph.D.
Director of Arctic and Northern Studies
Professor and Chair of Political Science Department
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
Associate Professor of History
GRUE 613A
*on sabbatical for AY 2025-2026*
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 Alaska
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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:
Alaskan history, modern circumpolar history, energy systems, political economy, mobility
and infrastructure, and climate change
Affiliated Faculty
Walkie Charles, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Yup鈥檌k and Faculty Fellow
Alaska Native Language Center
BROOKS 107D
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.
Professor of English
GRUE 862
*on sabbatical for AY 2025-2026*
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.
Carol Gray, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science - Public Law; Coordinator of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Pre-Law Advisor in Political Science; 精东影业 Fulbright Liaison
GRUE 603A
- ACNS F340 / PS F340 / WGSS F340 Gender and Reproductive Law and Politics
- PSF101X Introduction to American Government and Politics
- PS F435 Constitutional Law I: Federalism
- PS F436 Constitutional Law II: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
- PS F322 International Law and Organization
- PS F499 - Senior Thesis
Research specialties and interests:
Research interests related to Arctic and Northern Studies include the intersection
of law, human rights, and politics (e.g., abortion rights in Alaska and the legal
crisis involving Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women). Other research and teaching
interests include race, gender and class; international human rights law; criminal
law; voting rights; oral history; interdisciplinary studies; decolonization and the
Global South; the Middle East with a focus on Egypt and the Arab- Israeli conflict;
ongoing archival research based on an abolitionist newspaper from the 1800s.
Alexander Hirsch, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science
GRUE 603
Courses taught:
- PS F300X Ethics and Society
- PS F450 Comparative Indigenous Rights
- PS F647 US Environmental Politics
Research specialties and interests:
Zo毛 Marie Jones, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair of Art Department
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.
Associate Professor and Fathauer Chair of History Department
GRUE 605B
Courses taught:
- HIST F315 Europe: 1900 - 1945
- HIST F316 Europe since 1945
- HIST F466 / ACNS F466 / 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 of Cross-Cultural Studies
Center for Cross-Cultural Studies
BROOKS 306F
Courses taught:
- CCS F602 Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights
- CCS F603 Field Research Methods
- CCS F604 Documenting Indigenous Knowledge
- CCS F612 Traditional Ecological Knowledge
- CCS F616 Education and Socioeconomic Change
- CCS F656 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 of Indigenous Studies
Center for Cross-Cultural Studies
BROOKS 306E
Courses taught:
- ANTH A390 Arctic and Subarctic Ethnography (Central Yup'ik Cultures)
- CCS F612 Traditional Ecological Knowledge
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CCS F619 Cultural Atlases as a Pedagogical Strategy
Research specialties and interests:
Alaska Native food lifeways, Alaska Native language (Central Yup'ik), Alaskan history,
Indigenous place names and way of knowing, oral history, community-based participatory
research, cultural anthropology, geography, and Japanese pioneers in Alaska.
Amy Lovecraft, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center for Arctic Policy Studies
GRUE 602B
*on sabbatical for AY 2025-2026*
Courses taught:
- PS F300X Ethics and Society
- PS F303 Politics and the Judicial Process
- PS F403 Public Policy
- PS F462 / PS F662 / ACNS F662 Alaska Government and Politics
- PS F499 Senior Thesis
Research specialties and interests:
Wildland fire, sea ice, and marine mammals policy; freshwater systems and transnational environmental regimes; environmental political theory addressing rapid change and the far North.
Mary Ludwig, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
GRUE 606B
- HIST F131 History of the US I
- HIST F132X History of the US II
- HIST F363 History of the US 1877-1945
- HIST F364 History of the US 1945 to Present
- HIST F446 Native American History
Indigenous history, History of the North American West, sovereignty, and carceral studies.
Russell Luke, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science- American Politics
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
- HIST F131 US I
- HIST F132X US II
- HIST F275 Perspectives on History
- HIST F411 Environmental History.
- HIST F434 Topics in History: American Pop Culture Since 1945
- HIST F368 Topics in American Film History
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
Courses taught:
- HIST 333 Foundations of Japanese History
Edo Period Japan, Japan-Russia-Ainu contacts, Northeast Asia, maritime 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 Music - Upper Strings
FINE ARTS 209
Courses Taught:
- MUS F223X / ACNS F223X Alaska Native Music
Sveta Yamin-Pasternak
Associate 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
Graduate Teaching Assistants
In Memoriam
Former Director, Arctic and Northern Studies (2010-2018)
Former Director, Arctic and Northern Studies (1991-2010)
Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Professor Emeritus of History and Arctic and Northern Studies