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Brandon Boylan, Ph.D.

Director of Arctic and Northern Studies

Professor of Political Science

GRUE 613 B

Courses taught by Dr. Boylan:

• ACNS 601 - Â鶹¹ÙÍø Methods/Sources in the North
• ACNS 652 - International Relations of the North

Tyler Kirk, Ph.D.

Assistant Director of Arctic and Northern Studies

Assistant Professor of History

Courses taught by Dr. Kirk:

• HIST 102 Western Civilization Since 1500
• HST 316 Europe since 1945
• HIST 434 Topics in History
• HIST 464 Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
• HIST 600 Perspectives on the North

Walkie Charles, Ph.D.

Director of Alaska Native Language Center

Associate Professor of Yup'ik

Courses taught:

• Yup'ik 101, 102, 201, 202, 301, 415

Â鶹¹ÙÍø 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

Courses taught:

• Intermediate Fiction and Nonfiction Writing
• Introduction to Creative Writing
• Nature and Travel Writing
• Graduate Writing Workshops
• Forms of Nonfiction

Â鶹¹ÙÍø specialties and interests:

Nonfiction and fiction writing and Literature of the US West.

John Heaton, Ph.D.

Professor of History

Courses taught:

• History of Alaska Natives
• American Film history

Â鶹¹ÙÍø specialties and interests:

Native American economics and culture, Native American history

Eric Heyne, Ph.D.

Professor of English

Courses taught:

• Alaskan and Northern Canadian Literature
• Images of the North

Â鶹¹ÙÍø specialities and interests:

Alaskan and northern Canadian literature, American literature and critical theory

Alexander Hirsch, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Political Science

Courses taught:

• Comparative Indigenous Rights 
• US Environmental Politics

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Zoë Marie Jones, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Art

Courses taught:

• Visual Images of the North
• Alaskan Field Artists

Â鶹¹ÙÍø specialties:

20th Century art, immigrant artistic communities, art created in times of conflict

Michael Koskey, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Cross-Cultural Studies

Courses taught:

• Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights 
• Field Â鶹¹ÙÍø Methods
• Documenting Indigenous Knowledge
• Traditional Ecological Knowledge
• Education and Socioeconomic Change
• Sustainable Livelihoods and Community Wellbeing

Â鶹¹ÙÍø 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.

Postdoctoral Â鶹¹ÙÍøer/Term Faculty Center for Cross-Cultural Studies

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Amy Lovecraft, Ph.D.

Professor of Political Science

Courses taught:

• Science, Technology and Politics
• Government and Politics of Canada

Â鶹¹ÙÍø 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.

Leslie McCartney, M.A.

Associate Professor Library Science, Curator of Oral History

• The Oral Tradition:  Folklore and Oral History
• Dene Peoples of Alaska and Adjacent Canada
• Independent Studies in Oral History Methodology

Chanda Meek, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Political Science

Courses taught:

• Arctic Politics and Governance
• Comparative Indigenous Rights and Policies
• US Environmental Politics

Â鶹¹ÙÍø 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                                  

Jennifer Schell, Ph.D.

Professor of English

Courses taught:

• Northern and Environmental Literature
• Images of the North

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Walter Skya, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of History

Courses taught:

Â鶹¹ÙÍø specialties and interests:

Modern Japanese Intellectual History, Political Economy of Modern East Asia, East Asian Nationalisms                                     

Jeremy Speight, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Political Science

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Philip Wight, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of History

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Mary F. Ehrlander, Ph.D.

Professor Emerita

Judith S. Kleinfeld, Ph.D..

Professor Emerita

David Koester, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Gerald (Jerry) McBeath, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

William Schneider, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus