The Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College has Fellowships available for recent doctoral graduates and established scholars to spend a minimum of one term and up to a year in residence researching and writing about international issues related to one of the Center's research areas: conflict and conflict resolution, human dimensions of environmental change at the earths high latitudes, and global health.
The Institute of Arctic Studies is focused on climate change and its social and political consequences for Arctic residents. It is home to Dartmouth's NSF IGERT graduate training program in Polar Environmental Change and partners with Greenlandic institutions and Inuit leaders. Fellows who contribute to our initiatives are especially encouraged to apply. Areas of interest include: Arctic change and traditional knowledge; polar politics and institutions; climate change and ecosystem services; and environmental change and language loss. While at Dartmouth, fellows are expected to participate in seminars and colloquia relevant to their area of interest, and to work towards the completion of a scholarly monograph or similar project.
Four new fellows with Northern and Arctic interests for the 2009-2010 academic year are:
Betsy Baker - And 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 in addressing marine shipping and offshore oil and gas development issues in the Arctic.
Lenore Grenoble - The Carl Darling Buck Professor of Slavic Linguistics at the University of Chicago, Grenoble 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. While at the Dickey Center, she will be engaged in research on the interrelations between language, culture, and environment in Greenland.
Hiroko Ikuta - She recently completed a PhD at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and will be researching the complex nexus of environmental change and social and linguistic responses among St. Lawrence Island Yupik in Alaska.
Paula Kankaanpaa - Currently the Vice-rector for research and Director of the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland, Kankaanpaa has expertise in bridging science and decision making. She will be studying the interaction of science and policy and their consequences by using international Arctic cooperation as a case study.
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Dartmouth College is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and has a strong commitment to diversity. We welcome applications from a broad spectrum of people, including women, persons of color, persons with disabilities, and veterans.
