Ph.D., University of Lapland (2015)
Research Interests:
My research interests include polar and tropical geography, tribal polities, and international relations. My initial research and writing (1990-2010) focuses primarily on the Western Arctic region, where I conducted research and resided during the 1990s while managing several northern, Aboriginal language media organizations. In more recent years, my research has expanded beyond the Arctic to include the Asia-Pacific region and the high North Atlantic. In 2019 I was appointed the Class of 1965 Arctic Scholar at the Center for Arctic Study and Policy at the US Coast Guard Academy. In Spring 2020, I will serve as a Fulbright Scholar at the Polar Law Program at the University of Akureyri, where I will continue my study of Arctic polities and models for sovereignty and quasi-sovereign assertions of autonomy -- building upon the foundation established by my earlier Kone Foundation project on tribal buffer zones and indigenous borderlands in world politics in which I theorized about the oft-ignored but nonetheless salient "4th image" in international relations contiguous with historic boundaries of tribal homelands, which continues to define regional and international boundaries in the Arctic region as well as other remote regions worldwide.