Chair

Catherine Chambers | Iceland
Ocean governance; Coastal communities; Fishers' knowledge
E-mail

Vice-Chair

Monika Szkarłat | Poland
Science diplomacy the Arctic, legal and social dimension of biotechnology, right to adequate food and nutrition
E-mail

Vice-Chair

Ingrid A Medby | United Kingdom
Arctic Identity; Political Geography; Critical Geopolitics
E-mail

Past Chair

Susan Chatwood | Canada
Health systems; Population health; Community engagement
E-mail

Member

Alexandra Meyer | Austria
Anthropology, Climate change, Svalbard
E-mail

Member

Olga Povoroznyuk | Austria
Anthropology of infrastructure; social and environmental transformations; indigenous and local communities of the Arctic and Siberia
E-mail

Member

Frédéric Laugrand | Belgium
Anthropology, hunting and Inuit knowledge systems, mobility, history, religion, Canada
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Member

Nathalie Pattyn | Belgium E-mail

Member

David Natcher | Canada
Environmental livelihoods; Culture and economy; Maintenance of local food systems
E-mail

Member

SU Ping | China
Global Governance; International Political Sociology; International Organization
E-mail
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Member

DENG Beixi | China
Polar Geopolitics & Security; Polar Policy; Arctic Shipping
E-mail

Member

Barbora Halašková | Czech Republic
Arctic geopolitics and security; International relations; Foreign policy
E-mail

Member

Zdenka Sokolíčková | Czech Republic
Svalbard, Climate/environmental change, Globalisation
E-mail

Member

Carina Ren | Denmark
Tourism development and entrepreneurship; Cultural innovation, co-creation, and capacity building; Collaborative research methods
E-mail

Member

Brooks Kaiser | Denmark
Arctic economic development; Bioeconomy; Marine resource governance
E-mail

Member

Mervi Heikkinen | Finland
Women’s and gender studies; Intersectionality; Ethics; Higher education
E-mail

Member

Florian Stammler | Finland
Indigenous and local livelihoods, development impact assessments, Arctic Eurasia
E-mail

Member

Claire Alix | France
Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology; Alaska, Bering Strait, Western Canadian Arctic; Inuit history and technology
E-mail

Member

Virginie Vaté | France
Anthropology of religion; Shamanism and Christianity; Conversion; Chukotka and Alaska
E-mail

Member

Nina Doering | Germany
Co-production, transdisciplinarity, ethics, participation
E-mail

Member

Peter-Tobias Stoll | Germany E-mail

Member

Swati Nagar | India
Science outreach; Polar outreach
E-mail

Member

Fujio Omishi | Japan
History of international relations in the Arctic, Polar Geopolitics, Arctic Policy
E-mail

Member

Hiroki Takakura | Japan
Siberian anthropology; Northeast Asian indigenous history; arctic pastoralism
E-mail

Member

Hyunkyo Seo | Republic of Korea
Polar policy
E-mail

Member

Annette Scheepstra | The Netherlands
Transdisciplinary; Stakeholder engagement
E-mail

Member

Britt Kramvig | Norway
Indigenous peoples ontologies, politics, and art; Creativity, tourism, and innovation in Arctic and Indigenous communities
E-mail

Member

Maiken Bjørkan | Norway
Coastal communities; Co-production of knowledge; Fisheries and aquaculture governance
E-mail

Member

Agnieszka Skorupa | Poland
Psychology; Human behavior in extreme situations; Group and individual adaptation to Polar region
E-mail

Member

Sandra Maria Rodrigues Balão | Portugal
Geopolitics & (Geo)Strategy; Security & Securitization Diplomacy
E-mail

Member

Andrei Golovnev | Russia
Social psychology in the Arctic; Circumpolar states; Policy of scientific researches
E-mail

Member

Andrey Podoplekin | Russia
Social psychology in the Arctic, Circumpolar states, Policy and programs of scientific researches
E-mail

Member

Ana Maria Manero Salvador | Spain
International Law of the Sea, International Environmental Law, Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights
E-mail

Member

Ragnhild Nilsson | Sweden
Indigenous politics; Indigenous representation and self-determination
E-mail

Member

Laine Chanteloup | Switzerland E-mail

Member

James D. Ford | United Kingdom
Climate/environmental change, Indigenous and local communities, climate adaptation
E-mail

Member

Victoria Herrmann | USA
Climate change, community adaptation, cultural heritage, storytelling
E-mail

Member

Lawrence Hamilton | USA
Sociology; Demography; Survey research
E-mail

Fellow 2022

Seira Duncan | Finland
Anthropology, Indigeneity, Eurasia
E-mail

Fellow 2022

Daria Burnasheva | Russia
Arctic, Indigeneity, Gender, Identity, Social and cultural dimensions of climate change
E-mail

Fellow 2023

Alison Perrin | Canada
Science policy; climate change adaptation; human-environment relationships
E-mail

Fellow 2023

Naja Carina Steenholdt | Denmark
Quality of life, living conditions, Greenland
E-mail

Fellow 2023

Eda Ayaydin | France
Arctic geopolitics, indigenous politics, sovereignty, governance
E-mail

Fellow 2024

Charlotte Gehrke | Norway
Environmental policy, science communication, science diplomacy
E-mail

Fellow 2024

Anita Lafferty | Canada
Indigenous pedagogy, decolonization, land-based
E-mail

Fellow 2024

Elena Adasheva-Klein | United States
Human-environment relations, environmental anthropology, environmental humanities
E-mail

SHWG Secretary

Anna Varfolomeeva | Finland
Indigeneity / Extractive Industries / Sustainability
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