Authors and Contributors

Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv

Research Professor, The Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO), Oslo, Norway.

Hoogensen Gjørv's research has interrogated the interactions and tensions between perceptions of state and human security in a variety of contexts, with a particular focus on civil–military interaction and Arctic perceptions of security. She is concerned with representations and performances of civilian agency, drawing upon intersectional approaches to better understand agency, everyday security, and possibilities for peace. Hoogensen Gjørv has led a number of projects examining human security in the context of Arctic extractive industries. She was among the first to be awarded a Fulbright Arctic Initiative fellowship (2015-2016) and subsequently became the Nansen Professor at the University of Akureyri (2017-2018).

“Honestly? I was married (first time of 3 - I was 23 at the time) to a guy who opened up my privileged, stupid little eyes. I was a little fart who thought she did not need feminism or such crap (despite having been sexually harassed at virtually every workplace I had worked in, and even fired for not having sex with the boss), to the incredible degree to which sexism and gender inequality just dripped from every crevice in society. He was (thankfully) the last big slap in the face I needed to wake up. It wasn’t reading a book. It was experience. Then I read books and thought hell where have I been?”

Sarah Seabrook Kendall

Master's student in the Environment and Natural Resources program at the University of Iceland and olds a B.A. in English and Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. She has also completed coursework at the University Center in Svalbard. She is passionate about the Arctic and understanding how its societies function as a part of the natural environment. Her research interests include Arctic governance, sustainable development, climate change adaptation, and environmental management. In addition to her work as a co-lead author on the Security chapter in the GEA III Report, she is writing her thesis, Social Cultural Valuation of Whales and Climate Change Adaptation, in Húsavík, Iceland, through the University of Iceland's participation in ARCPATH, a project that aims to promote sustainable societies in the Arctic as a part of the Joint Nordic Initiative on Arctic Research. Apart from her studies and research work, Sarah is an avid outdoorswoman who loves spending as much time in the Icelandic sea and mountains as possible.

Julia Christensen

Associate Professor in Geography and the Canada Research Chair in Northern Governance and Public Policy at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland. She has published extensively on northern housing insecurity, home and the social determinants of health in Canadian and circumpolar North.

Stephan Dudeck

Stephan Dudeck is an anthropologist at the Centre for Arctic Social Studies, European University at Saint Petersburg, the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, and the Centre of Arctic and Sibe-rian Exploration, Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences working with Siberian In-digenous peoples on oral history, gender, visual anthropology and human-animal relations.

Will Greaves

Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. His research examines global politics, security studies, and environmental politics with focuses on climate change, energy extraction, Indigenous peoples, foreign policy, and the circumpolar Arctic. He has co-edited two books and authored more than 25 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and was previously Lecturer at the Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice and Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Sámi Studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

J. Otto Habeck

Joachim Otto Habeck teaches social anthropology at Universität Hamburg. He combines regional expertise on the North of Russia, Siberia and Mongolia with research on the interaction of climate change and indigenous land use, mobile pastoralism, notions of modernity and outcomes of state-induced modernisation projects, and gender asymmetries in northern communities. Habeck is one of the initiators of the "Gender in the Arctic“ initiative within the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC).

Kamrul Hossain

Kamrul Hossain is a Research Professor and the Director of the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law (NIEM) at the Arctic Centre and an Adjunct Professor of Public International Law at the University of Lapland. He is the leader of the University of Arctic’s Thematic Network on Arctic Law. Although by training, he has specialized in international law, his research focus currently lies broadly in international environmental law and human rights law, particularly concerning the rights of the indigenous peoples that applies to the Arctic.

Over his academic career, Prof. Hossain has extensively published in almost all areas of Arctic governance, such as in climate change and environmental protection; security and geopolitics, biodiversity; marine environment and the law of the sea; human rights and human security, etcetera; highlighting, legal, institutional and policy perspectives.

He has been the Principal Investigator (PI) of a significant number of international and national research projects funded by the agencies, such as the Academy of Finland, the NordForsk, the Nordic Council of Ministers, the Council of Baltic Sea States, etc. Prof.

Hossain has held several visiting positions in several renowned foreign universities, such as at the Law School of Harbin Institue of Technology in China as a visiting professor; at the University of Technology, Sydney as a visiting professorial fellow; and as a visiting scholar to a number of institutions, including University of Toronto, Canada, Hokkaido University and Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan, the Scott Polar Research Institute of the University of Cambridge, etc.

He served as the Special Editor for several international scientific journals, including the Yearbook of Polar Law. He regularly teaches at the University of Lapland and periodically at other foreign universities in Europe and Asia. He has received a number of prestigious awards in his academic early academic career, including the SYLFF Fellowship at the University of Helsinki, Kone Foundation Post-doc Fellowship, Faculty Research Fellowship by the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT).

Tonje Margrete Winsnes Johansen

Tonje Margrete Winsnes Johansen works as an adviser for the Saami Council's Arctic- and Environmental Unit. Johansen comes from a small coastal-Sámi village in the northern parts of Sápmi on the Norwegian side and is currently residing in Guovdageaidnu. She has a political science background from NTNU. Within the Saami Council Johansen focuses most of her work on sustainable development and socio-economic issues in Sápmi.

Natalia Kukarenko

Natalia Kukarenko (PhD in Social Philosophy/ kand.filos.nauk) is a senior researcher at Northern (Arctic) Federal University (NArFU, Arkhangelsk, Russia) and an Assistant Professor at Philosophy and Sociology Department, Higher School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Intercultural Communication, NArFU. As a researcher her interests cover such topics as justice theories, gender studies, human diversity. Over the past 10 years she has been actively involved into international multidisciplinary projects investigating climate change impacts on human well-being and health in the Arctic communities with a focus on ecological justice and gender equality. Currently she is a part of CLINF- project on Climate Change Effects on the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases and the Impacts on Northern Societies, funded by Nordforsk for 2016 - 2021). The project among other tasks investigates the different impacts of climate change on the wellbeing and health of different groups of people in the Arctic communities. She is the author of over 70 publications (articles, book chapters, monograph) in Russian and foreign languages.

Heather Nicol

Heather Nicol's research is focused upon exploring the dynamics that structure the political geography of the circumpolar North, with a specific focus on the North American Arctic and Canada-US relations. Her work is focused upon cross-border relations, tensions, geopolitical narratives and mappings of power and sovereignty. She is currently exploring both the history of circumpolar geopolitics, security and borders in relation to globalization and post-global paradigms.

Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir

Dr. Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir‘s research focuses on Icelandic society and politics, Iceland’s foreign and security policy and feminist international relations. She holds degrees in BA, MA and PhD degrees international relations from Lewis & Clark College, the University of Southern California, and University College Cork, as well as post-graduate certificates in methodology of social sciences and university teaching from the University of Iceland. Alongside her post at the University of Iceland, she is the vice chair of the board of the Icelandic Red Cross, as well as that of the Institute of International Affairs at the University of Iceland. She is Research Director at Höfði – Reykjavik Peace Centre, and a member of the Icelandic chapter of the Nordic Women Mediator Network.

Alexander Sergunin

Professor of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University and Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia. He holds Ph.D. (history) from the Moscow State University (1985) and Habilitation (political science) from the St. Petersburg State University (1994). His fields of research and teaching include Arctic politics and governance, Russia’s Arctic sustainable development, Russian foreign policy thinking and making.

Kyle Shaughnessy

Kyle Shaughnessy is a Two-Spirit, trans person of mixed Indigenous (Dene) and European (Irish) ancestry. He is a social worker and writer originally from all over the Canadian Arctic and small town BC, and has been supporting trans and Two-Spirit youth and their families since 2001. He is currently completing his Master of Social Work degree at Dalhousie University, focusing his research on Two-Spirit teaching & learning as healing, and works as an Indigenous Education Consultant at the University of British Columbia.

Vladislava Vladimirova

Vladislava Vladimirova is a cultural anthropologist who is involved in long-term research in Circumpolar Eurasia. Her main interests are in the field of indigenous governance and ethnicity, environmental governance and justice, gender, moral economy, and conservation of environmental and cultural heritage in the Arctic. In addition to numerous book chapters and journal articles, she is the author of the book Just labor: labor ethic in a post-Soviet reindeer herding community (2006), for which she was awarded the Westin Prize by the Royal Society for Humanities at Uppsala (2009). In 2018 Vadislava Vladimirova and Otto Habeck were guest editors to a special issue of the journal Polar Geography on Gender in the Arctic.