
Melody Brown Burkins
- Director, Institute of Arctic Studies
- Sr Assoc Director, John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding
Core Faculty & Staff

Ross A. Virginia
- Myers Family Professor of Environmental Science, Department of Environmental Studies
- Distinguished Stefansson-Nef Arctic Faculty Fellow, Institute of Arctic Studies, Dickey Center for International Understanding

Matthew P. Ayres
- Professor of Biological Sciences
- Associate Director, Institute of Arctic Studies

Sanaa K. Siddiqi
- Program Manager, Institute of Arctic Studies

Varvara Korkina Williams
- Project Manager and Arctic Innovation Fellow, Institute of Arctic Studies

Lauren E. Culler
- Research Associate Professor
- Senior Fellow for Climate & Environment

Jessica V. Trout-Haney
- Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

Hunter T. Snyder
- Senior Fellow for Green Transitions
- Research Scientist
Affiliates

Ian Baker
- Sherman Fairchild Professor of Engineering
- Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs

N. Bruce Duthu
- Samson Occom Professor
- Chair, Department of Native American and Indigenous Studies

Robert L. Hawley
- Professor of Earth Sciences
- Department Chair, Earth Sciences

Meredith A. Kelly
- Chair, Department of Earth Sciences
- Professor of Earth Sciences

Erich Osterberg
- Associate Professor of Earth Sciences

Justin V. Strauss
- Associate Professor of Earth Sciences
Senior Fellows

Gwen Healey Akearok
- 2024 Canada Fulbright Research Chair in Arctic Studies
- Senior Fellow

Níels Einarsson
- Senior Fellow
- Director of the Stefansson Arctic Institute

Lenore Grenoble
- Senior Fellow
- John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Linguistics and Humanities Collegiate Division, the University of Chicago

Jeffrey Kerby
- Senior Fellow

Marisol Maddox
- Senior Fellow

Ceporah Mearns
- Senior Fellow
Visiting Fellows

Leah Sarson
- 2015-2016 Fulbright Student
- Associate Professor / Director, Centre for the Study of Security and Development, Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS)

Bruce Forbes
- 2015-2016 Visiting Arctic Fellow, Finland

Gabrielle A. Slowey
- 2016-2017 Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Arctic Studies
- Director, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University

Gordon Hickey
- 2019-2020 Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Arctic Studies

Lill Rastad Bjorst
- 2021-2022 Visiting Fulbright Arctic Initiative Scholar

Brendon Griebel
- 2021-2022 Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Arctic Studies

Victoria Bikowski
- Fulbright Research Scholar
- Ph.D. Student, York University

Gwen Healey Akearok
- 2024 Canada Fulbright Research Chair in Arctic Studies
- Senior Fellow

Eduard Ariza Sole
- Visiting Scholar with the Institute of Arctic Studies

Alexandre Delangle
- Visiting Fulbright Research Scholar

Kathy Snow
- Distinguished 2025 Canada Fulbright Research Chair in Arctic Studies