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