UAF Arctic and Northern Studies Contact Information

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Phone:
(907) 474-7126

Email:
uaf-northern@alaska.edu

Program Director

Brandon Boylan, PhD
Professor of Political Science

Office: Gruening Building, Room 613B
Phone: (907) 474-6503
Email: bmboylan@alaska.edu

Visit

Gruening Building, Room 605D

Monday - Friday: 8:00am - 5:00pm
Closed for lunch hour
Closed over weekends and for University holidays

Department Administrator

Laura Schneider

Office: Gruening Building, Room 605D
Phone: (907) 474-7126
Email: uaf-northern@alaska.edu

Mail

UAF Arctic and Northern Studies Program

PO Box 756460

Fairbanks, AK 99775

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Administrators

Brandon Boylan, Ph.D.

Director of Arctic and Northern Studies

Professor of Political Science

bmboylan@alaska.edu | 907-474-6503

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

Dr. Boylan advises the M.A. and Interdisciplinary Studies Ph.D. programs.

Research interests:
International relations, international security, political violence, separatist movements, Arctic politics and security.

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Philip Wight, Ph.D.

Assistant Director of Arctic and Northern Studies

Assistant Professor of History

pawight@alaska.edu | 907-474-5203

GRUE 613A

Courses taught:

ACNS F201 - The Circumpolar North: An Introductory Overview
HIST F411 / ACNS F611 - Environmental History
HIST F453 / HONR F453 / ACNS F453 / ACNS F653 - Fire, Ice & the Fate of Humanity: A History of Energy & Climate Change
HIST F461 / ACNS F661 - History of Alaska
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

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Affiliated Faculty

Walkie Charles, Ph.D.

Director of Alaska Native Language Center

Associate Professor of Yup'ik

swcharles@alaska.edu | 907-474-7874

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

dlfarmer@alaska.edu

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

ahirsch@alaska.edu | (907) 474-6612

Courses taught:

Comparative Indigenous Rights
US Environmental Politics

Research specialties and interests:

Indigenous decolonization in Western Settler States, critical theory, transitional justice

Zoë Marie Jones, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Art

zjones@alaska.edu | 907-474-7726

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

tckirk@alaska.edu | 907-474-5874

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

mskoskey@alaska.edu | 907-474-6992

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

ykugo@alaska.edu

BROOKS 306E

Courses taught:

ANTH 390A Arctic and Subarctic Ethnography (Central Yup'ik Cultures)
CCX 612 Traditional Ecological Knowledge
CCX 619 Cultural Atlases

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

allovecraft@alaska.edu | 907-474-2688

GRUE 602B

Courses taught:

PS 300X - Ethics and Society
PS 303 - Politics and the Judicial Process
PS F462 / PS F662 / ACNS F662 - Alaska 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

reluke@alaska.edu

GRUE 601B

Courses taught:

PS F101 - Introduction to American Government and Politics
PS F302 - Congress and Public Policy
PS F403/ACNS F603 - Public Policy

Research specialties and interests:
American politics, public opinion, political psychology, research methods

Leslie McCartney, M.A.

Professor of Library Science, Curator of Oral History

lmccartney@alaska.edu | (907) 474-7737

Courses taught:

ANTH F470 / ANTH F670 / ACNS F470 / ACNS F670 - Oral Sources: Issues in Documentation

Research specialties and interests:

Oral History, Gwich'in Elders (Northwest Territories Canada) life stories

Chanda Meek, Ph.D.

Professor of Political Science

clmeek@alaska.edu | 907-474-5115

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