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- Adminstrative Staff
- Research Fellows in residence at the Barents Institute
- Victoria Tevlina - Senior Research Fellow at the Barents Institute
- Master of Art research projects
- Barents Institute Visiting Fellows and Professorships
- Urban Wråkberg - Senior Research Fellow at the Barents Institute
Aileen Espíritu - Director of the Barents Institute Dr Aileen A. Espíritu is the Director of the Barents Institute effective since 1st March 2010. Aileen has the overall responsibility for the Institute’s academic as well as the administrative operations, focusing on the cross-border research and studies, transnational relations, Northern politics, and regional development.E-mail: aileen.espiritu at barinst.no Aileen Espíritu’s doctoral dissertation examined the impact of oil and gas development on indigenous peoples in Northwest Siberia, and analysed the industrialisation (Sovietisation) of their culture, economies, and way of life. Espíritu has also done research on the quality of life of the Sakha people living in the diamond mining regions of the Sakha Republic, Russia. She has recently completed a project on the political participation of indigenous women and men in Northwest Siberia since the 1930s, and is presently part-time conducting a similar research project on gendered political participation of the Sámi of Northern Norway since 1945. Espíritu is native English speaker; her field interviews have been based on her knowledge of Russian and Tagalog which she is able to read and speak, and to write to some extent. In her current research she is particularly focusing: Social quality and quality of life in the Arctic regions; Identity politics in indigenous and non-indigenous Northern communities; Gendered political participation among indigenous peoples of the Circumpolar North; The impact of industrialization and post-industrialization on small towns in the North; The politics of environmental management and energy security in Russia; The ethics of ethnography. Espíritu has served as Assist. Prof. at the University of Northern British Columbia, she holds a PhD in History from the University of Alberta, Canada. She has extensive teaching experience, from among other courses in the following topics: Russian History, Politics, Social Development; Imperial Russia and Soviet History; The Circumpolar World (North); Special Topics in the History of Northern Europe: Nationalism and Nationalities Policies under the Soviet Regime; Themes in the History of Gender: Gender; Colonialism and Nationalism; Comparative Women's History: Gender, Nationalism and Citizenship; The Scandinavian Welfare State; Geography of the Circumpolar North; Feminist Theories: Gender, Nationalism; Aspects of International Relations; Economic History of Peripheral Regions: Colonisation and Development; Topics in the History of Gender: The Family; Folk Law, Legal Pluralism and Citizenship in Northern Europe; Environmental History. Notable among several awards, she successfully has obtained funding from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Gorbachev Foundation (University of Calgary), The Royal Norwegian Embassy (Ottawa) and the Northern Land Use Institute (University of Northern British Columbia). Current research projects include:
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