Betsy Baker is an Associate Professor at Vermont Law School and Senior Fellow for Oceans and Energy at the Institute for Energy and the Environment there. Her current research includes trans-boundary cooperation issues and a comparative law analysis of gaps in Arctic marine governance.  While at the Dickey Center, Baker will be writing a law review article on Canadian-US management of disputed but shared areas in the Beaufort Sea and studying multiple stakeholder involvement addressing in marine shipping and offshore oil and gas development issues in the Arctic.

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Has completed her PhD studies with the Government Department, Cornell University, Ithaca NY.  While at Dickey plans include developing her dissertation into a book manuscript. States of Peace, Suppliers of War? The Emergence of Conventional Arms Export Standards

Is the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Slavic Linguistics at the University of Chaicago. She is interested in Slavic, Tungusic and languages of the North, discourse and conversation analysis, deixis, contact linguistics and language endangerment, attrition, and revitalization. Her fieldwork focuses on languages of Siberia and while at Dickey she is engaged in research on the interrelations between language, culture and environment in Greenland.

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Has recently completed her PhD studies at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.  She will be using her fellowship to research the complex nexus of environmental change and social and linguistic responses among St. Lawrence Island Yupik in Alaska. 

Currently the Director of the Arctic Centre @ the University of Lapland. Dr, Kankaanpaa while in residence will be studying the interaction of science and policy and their consequences by using the international Arctic co-operation as a case study.

*Dr. Kankaanpaa will be in residence Spring and Summer term

Currently the Principal Research Scientist in the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA.   She will be exploring the challenges that European countries, NATO, and the European Union will face in delivering useful military capability in future global actions. 

* Dr. Williams will be in residence Winter and Spring terms

Currently the Ford International Professor of Political Science and MIT Security Studies program Director.  He will be researching and writing on the topic of a new grand strategy for the United States, a grand strategy of  “ Restraint and Renewal”.

*Dr. Posen will be in residence Winter and Spring terms