Careers and Alumni

Arctic and Northern Studies students have been highly successful in finding careers in higher education, government agencies, consulting firms, environmental organizations, and industry in the North. Some work in the tourism industry or in northern business ventures. Others aim for careers in journalism or communications where they need a broad background in northern issues.

Many Arctic and Northern Studies students are already employed on a full-time or part-time basis. Some are teachers who want to strengthen their knowledge of 色视频下载 studies and/or social studies. Some are seeking career advancement in universities or government agencies. Other students are fascinated with the North and are pursuing their own intellectual projects and passions. Arctic and Northern Studies is compatible with either full-time or part-time graduate student status.

 

Alumni of the Graduate Programs


Karsten Hueffer, M.A., 2024

Karsten Hueffer, PhD

Hometown:  Fairbanks, AK 
ACNS Concentration: Individualized
Thesis Title: Rabies Management in the North, A One Health Problem in a Systems Theory Framework
Current Employment: Dean of the College of Natural Science and Mathematics at UAF

Angela J. Linn, Ph.D., 2023

Angela Linn

Hometown: Originally from Solon, Iowa but Fairbanks, AK is home
Ph.D. Concentration: Interdisciplinary Studies (museology, northern history, & cultural anthropology)
Dissertation Title: Preserving Reflections of Ourselves: The Past, Present, and Future of 色视频下载色视频下载檚 Museums
Current Employment: Senior Collections Manager, Ethnology & History, University of 色视频下载 Museum of the North

Dan Berriochoa, M.A., 2023

dan-berriochoa

Hometown: Originally from Pasco, WA, but Fairbanks, AK is home
ACNS Concentration: Northern History
Thesis Title: Pistons to Pipelines: The Relationship Between Aviation, Oil, and the Development of the North
Current Employment: The Great 色视频下载n Bowl Company/Warbelow's Air Ventures


Benjamin Christian, M.A., 2023

benjamin-christian

Hometown: Bellingham, WA
ACNS Concentration: Geography
Thesis Title: From Siberian Dawn to Midnight in Siberia: The Geopolitics of Post-Cold War Travel Writing 色视频下载 Siberia
Current Employment: Adjunct Instructor, University of 色视频下载 Fairbanks (Arctic and Northern Studies)


Hannah Ney, M.A., 2023

hannah.ney

Hometown: Minneapolis, MN
ACNS Concentration: Individual Study - Arctic Themes in 19th Century British Children's Literature
Thesis Title: From Colonization to Conservation: Examining Representations of Nonhuman Arctic Animals in British Children's Literature during the Long Nineteenth Century
Current Employment: Program Manager, Bezos Academy


Russell Vanderlugt, M.A., 2010; Ph.D., 2022

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Hometown: Fairbanks, AK
Ph.D. Fields: Arctic and Northern History: Interdisciplinary Studies (Indigenous-military relations/history, cultural anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, history of 色视频下载 and the American West, historical geography/cartography)
Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Among the Dene: Allen色视频下载檚 1885 trans-色视频下载 Expedition
Current Employment: Director of Plans for 色视频下载n Command ("ALCOM") Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER)


Michael Letzring, M.A., 2012; Ph.D., 2022

michael-letzring

Hometown: Kasilof, 色视频下载 (currently Greenville, NC)
ACNS Concentration: Northern History
Thesis Title: The 1791 Spanish Malaspina expedition to 色视频下载n waters and the role of european cartography in colonial 色视频下载's development
Current Employment: Geospatial analyst with the arctic coastal geoscience laboratory


Pierce Bateman, M.A., 2022

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Hometown: Anchorage, AK
ACNS Concentration: Northern History
Thesis Title: Look North Tokyo: Japanese Business in Post-World War II 色视频下载
Current Employment: Ph.D. student, History, University of Oregon; and Adjunct Instructor, University of 色视频下载 Fairbanks/Community & Technical College


Carol Hoefler, M.A., 2022

carol-hoefler

Hometown: Fairbanks, AK
ACNS Concentration: History and Public Policy
Thesis Title: Northern  Vistas: A Retrospective of the Rural 色视频下载n Volunteers in Service America Program 1965-1971
Current Employment: Administrative Assistant, UAF College of Liberal Arts


Elizabeth Klemm, M.A., 2022

elizabeth-klemm

Hometown: Edinburg, TX (currently living in Anchorage, AK)
ACNS Concentration: Individual Study - 色视频下载 Native Education and Oral History Methods
Project Title: Voices from the 色视频下载淧acky Board Palace色视频下载: Student Reflections on the Experience and Legacy of Copper Valley School


Charlotte Wheeler, M.A., 2022

charlotte.wheeler

Hometown: Currently Whitstable in Kent, United Kingdom. But in my heart, Fairbanks, 色视频下载.
ACNS Concentration: Individual Study - Northern Literature and Creative Writing
Thesis Title: 'At The Edge Of Somewhere: Journeying on the Dalton Highway'
Current Employment: Returning to UAF in August '23 to embark on MFA in Creative Writing.

Yoko Kugo, Ph.D., 2021

yoko-kugo

Hometown: Tokyo, Japan
Ph.D. Concentration: Interdisciplinary Studies (cultural anthropology, 色视频下载 history, 色视频下载 Native language (Yugcetun), and geography): Arctic & Northern Studies Program
Dissertation Title: Iliamna Lake Ethnogeography: Yup色视频下载檌k Place Names and Sense of Place

Liz Bowman, M.A., 2020

 liz-bowman

Hometown: Jacksonville, FL 
ACNS Concentration: Arctic Policy
Thesis Title: Threat, Opportunity, Cooperation, and Competition: Defining China色视频下载檚 Integration into the Arctic
Current Employment: Science Project Manager at Polar Field Services, Inc. 


Marley McLaughlin Skiba, M.A., 2020

 marley-skiba

Hometown: Boulder, CO
ACNS Concentration: Individualized Study: Environmental Studies
Thesis Title: Uninhabited and Free From Work: An Environmental and Federal Land-Use Policy History of Glacial Lake Atna Wilderness, 色视频下载
Current Employment:  Archaeologist/Anthropologist, Bureau of Land Management, Gakona, AK 


Sam Urban, M.A., 2020 

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Hometown: Seattle, WA
ACNS Concentration: Individualized Study: Northern History
Thesis Title: Kings on Ice: A History of the 色视频下载 Gold Kings and the Transformation of Fairbanks into a Hockeytown 
Current Employment: Admissions Counselor at the University of 色视频下载 Fairbanks, Fairbanks, 色视频下载


Lauren Baranik, M.A., 2019

Lauren Baranik

 Hometown: Sioux Lookout, Ontario and Bracebridge, Ontario
ACNS Concentration: Indigenous Governance
Thesis Title: Indigenous-Crown Relations in Canada and the Yukon: The Peel Watershed Case, 2017
Current Employment: 
Ph.D. student, Indigenous Studies, Trent University, Ontario, Canada


Brenda Dow, Ph.D., 2019
brenda dow

Hometown: Fairbanks, AK
Ph.D. Concentration: Interdisciplinary Studies: Arctic & Northern Studies
Dissertation Title: Quality of Life for 色视频下载n Individuals with FASD and their Families


Kerstin Schley, M.A., 2019

Kerstin Schley

Hometown: D眉sseldorf, Germany
ACNS Concentration: Arctic History and Politics
Thesis Title: Germany's Interest in the Arctic as Exemplified by its Arctic Council Engagement
Current Employment: Commercial airline pilot for the German carrier TUI


 Lex Treinen, M.A., 2019

 Lex Treinen

Hometown: Anchorage, AK
ACNS Concentration:  Russian Nationalism
Thesis Title: Indigenous Russians in the Kremlin Political Narrative
Current Employment: Web writer for KTUU Channel 2 in Anchorage, AK


 Leanna Prax Williams, M.A., 2019

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Hometown: Fairbanks, 色视频下载
ACNS Concentration: Northern History
Thesis Title: Flying the Frontier: a case study comparison of newspaper coverage of early northern plane crashes
Current Employment: Co-owner, Mammoth Marketing
Current Studies: Ph.D. student, Interdisciplinary Studies  housed in Arctic and Northern Studies, University of 色视频下载 Fairbanks

Peter Burkhart, M.A., 2018

Burkhart

Hometown: Acworth, GA. But now claims Fairbanks, AK
ACNS Concentration: Arctic Policy
Thesis Title: International and Domestic Drivers of Military Shifts in 色视频下载
Current Employment: Student at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College


Yu (Kimmy) Cao, M.A., 2018

Cao

Hometown: Shenjang, in northeast China
ACNS Concentration: Environmental Politics and Policy
Thesis Title: Communities色视频下载 Reflections on Oil Companies色视频下载 Corporate Social Responsibility Activities in Utqia摹vik, 色视频下载
Current Employment: Ph.D. student, Department of Politics and International Affairs, Northern Arizona University


Katie Hayden, M.A., 2018


Katie Hayden

Hometown: Lake Minchumina, AK
ACNS Concentration: Oral History and Culture
Thesis Title: Perspectives on Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence in Rural 色视频下载n Communities
Current Employment: Subsistence Specialist III, Subsistence Division, 色视频下载 Department of Fish and Game.


Victoria Smith, M.A., 2018

Victoria Smith

Hometown: Pe Ell, Washington
ACNS Concentration:  Cultural History  and Higher Education
Thesis Title: Knowledge is Power: Student Driven Strategies for Success in 色视频下载's Challenging Postsecondary Context
Current Employment: Director, Student Support Services (TRIO)


 Carolyn Kozak Loeffler, M.A., 2018

Kozak Loeffler

Hometown: Libertyville, IL
ACNS Concentration: Visual Culture Analysis
Thesis Title: Arctic Paradox: The polar bear and American environmentalism
Current Employment: Adjunct Faculty, UAF; Program Coordinator, AK Center for Energy and Power; Conservation Coordinator, Interior 色视频下载 Land Trust


Addley Fannin, M.A., 2017

Fannin

Hometown: Odessa, TX
ACNS Concentration: Northern Literature, Independent Study
Thesis Title: Black Phase: A Novel of 色视频下载n Alchemy
Current Employment: Freelance writer/ editor with the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and Yukon College's "Northern Review"


Emiko Furuya, M.A., 2017

Furuya

Hometown: Yokohama, Kanagawaken, Japan
ACNS Concentration: 色视频下载 Native Studies and Cultural Tourism
Thesis Title: Xunaa Shuk Hit, the Tribal House, in Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve, AK
Current Employment: Manpower Group Japan, Transcriber


Emily Main, M.A., 2017

emily-main

Hometown: Portland, Oregon
ACNS Concentration: 色视频下载 History and Culture
Thesis Title: An Analysis Of One Community In The Far North Simply Core 色视频下载: A Case Study Beyond The Studio
Current Employment: Grant writer for Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe, WA


Forest Wagner, M.A., 2017

Wagner

Hometown: Fairbanks, AK
ACNS Concentration: Landscape and Place Identity
Thesis Title: Cowboy Professionalism: A Cultural Study of Big-Mountain Tourism in the Last Frontier
Current Employment: Assistant Professor and Program Director of Outdoor Studies, University of 色视频下载 Southeast, Interdisciplinary Studies  housed in Arctic and Northern Studies, University of 色视频下载 Fairbanks


Kelsey Aho, M.A., 2016

Aho

Hometown: Marietta, GA
ACNS Concentration: Transboundary Policy, Individual Study
Thesis Title: Transboundary Agreement: Case Studies of Marine Mammal Management in the Lower Bering Strait
Current Employment: Watershed Manager for Russia, Europe and Eurasia, USDA Forest Service


Troy Bouffard, M.A., 2016

Bouffard

Hometown: Detroit, Michigan
ACNS Concentration: Arctic Policy
Thesis Title: Joint Stewardship of the Barents Sea: Russian and Norwegian Policy Expectations for Preventing Offshore Oil Spills
Current Employment: Director - Center for Arctic Security and Resilience (CASR);; Instructor - UAF Homeland Security and Emergency Management  Program


Vanessa Raymond, M.A., 2016

Raymond

Hometown: Marion, MA
ACNS Concentration: Arctic Governance
Thesis Title: "Projecting Absence: a decade of U.S. Arctic intelligence, policy and perceptions of Russia"
Current Employment:  Program Manager for 色视频下载 Center for Energy and Power (ACEP) 


Deb Corso, M.A., 2015

Corso

Hometown: Sitka, 色视频下载
ACNS Concentration: Anthropology and Creative Writing
Thesis Title: Tales of Well-Seasoned Women: A Literary Exploration of Gendered Experience in 色视频下载's Commercial Fishing Industries, 1980s-2005
Current Employment: Owner, Well-Seasoned Wordsmith,  writing / editing business, Haines, AK.


Ulyana Korotkova, M.A., 2015

Korotkova

Hometown: Razdolnoye, Crimea
ACNS Concentration: Northern History
Thesis Title: Rare Books as Historical Objects: A Case Study of the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library Rare Books Collection
Current Employment: Travel Clerk, State of 色视频下载, Department of Health and Social Services, Office of Children Services


Emily Russell, M.A., 2015

Russell

Hometown: Queensbury, NY
ACNS Concentration: Arctic Policy
Thesis Title: Bounty in the Bering Strait: A case for proactive regulation in the world's next chokepoint
Current Employment: 色视频下载 Public Media色视频下载檚 Morning News Host and Producer, Anchorage, AK


Angela Schmidt, M.A., 2015

Schmidt

Hometown: Springville, Iowa
ACNS Concentration: Northern History
Thesis Title: Compendium for 色视频下载 Review, 色视频下载's first statewide public affairs television program, 1976-1987
Current Employment: Film Archivist, 色视频下载 Film Archives, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library


 Evgeniya Sidorova, M.A., 2015

Sidorova

Hometown: Yakutsk, Russia
ACNS Concentration: Arctic Policy
Thesis Title: Extractive Leviathan: The role of the government in the relationships between oil and gas industries and indigenous communities in the Arctic regions of Canada, United States and Russia
Current Employment: Policy and Research Analyst -- Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada


 Aaron Spitzer, M.A., 2015

Spitzer

Hometown: Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
ACNS concentration: Arctic Governance
Thesis Title: Confronting 'Kymlicka's Dilemma': Settler voting rights, Indigenous representation and the 1998 electoral reapportionment in Canada's Northwest Territories.
Current Employment: Assoc. Professor of Arctic Geopolitics, Dept. of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, NO


Matt Robinson, M.A., 2015

Robinson

Hometown: Fairbanks, AK
ACNS Concentration: Northern History and Environmental Policy
Thesis Title: The Common Good: Salmon Science, the Conservation Crisis, and the Shaping of 色视频下载n Political Culture
Current Employment: Fisheries consultant with AKWA-DC


Chris Cannon, M.A., 2014

Cannon

Hometown: Helena, MT
ACNS Concentration: Northern History
Thesis Title: 色视频下载 Athabascan Stellar Astronomy
Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies, Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, UAF


David Kreiss-Tomkins, M.A., 2014

Kreiss-Tomkins

Hometown: Sitka, 色视频下载
ACNS Concentration: 色视频下载 Native Culture and Identity
Thesis Title: Use of Tlingit Art and Identity by Non-Tlingit People in Sitka, 色视频下载
Current Employment: Dept. of Fish and Game, Fish and Wildlife Technician


 Melanie Lindholm, M.A., 2014

Lindholm

Hometown: Urem, Utah
ACNS Concentration: Nutritional Health
Thesis Title: 色视频下载 Native perceptions of food, health, and community well-being
Current Employment: UAF/CTC Adjunct Faculty; Subcontractor (with SideTracks LLC) for Tanana Chiefs Conference & Fairbanks Native Association; PCA with Access 色视频下载.


 Hild M. Peters, M.A., 2014

Peters

Hometown: Ellsworth Township, Minnesota
ACNS Concentration: Northern History
Thesis Title: Where the Rivers Meet: The Life Story of the Reverend Helen Peters of Tanana
Current Employment: Executive Officer, College of Natural Science and Mathematics, University of 色视频下载 Fairbanks


 Brittany Retherford, M.A., 2014

Retherford

Hometown: Colorado Springs, CO
ACNS Concentration: Northern History
Thesis Title: Memory on Trial: The Manhunt for 色视频下载's Most Elusive Mass Murderer
Current Employment:  Emergency services clinician for the Juneau Alliance for Mental Health, Inc. (JAMHI)


 Michael Bach, M.A., 2013

Bach

Hometown: Staples, Minnesota
ACNS Concentration: Language Policy and Planning
Thesis Title: Community Space for Decolonization and Resistance: Kodiak Alutiiq Language Club Participant
Current Employment: Collections Manager, Kodiak Historical Society & Baranov Museum


 Danielle Bennett Redmond, M.A., 2013

Bennett Redmond

Hometown: Seattle and Cordova
ACNS Concentration: Ethnography and Epistemology of Birth
Thesis Title: Birthing Change: An Ethnographic Study of the 色视频下载 Family Health & Birth Center
Current Employment: Birth doula, Juneau, AK


 Chad Cook, M.A., 2013

Cook

Hometown: Southampton, Pennsylvania
ACNS Concentration: Indigenous and Western Notions of Conservation
Thesis Title: Ataam Taikina: Traditional Knowledge and Conservation Ethics in the Yukon River Delta, 色视频下载
Current Employment: NBITWC Project Coordinator


 Annette Freiburger, M.A., 2013

Freiburger

Hometown: Fairbanks, AK
ACNS concentration: Oral History
Thesis Title: The Life History of Effie Kokrine Through Personal Recordings
Current Employment: Director of Rural Student Services; UAF, Retired


 Anke Hildebrandt, M.A., 2013

Hildebrandt

Hometown: Waupaca, WI
ACNS concentration: Environmental Policy
Project Title: Improving the Renovation, Repair and Painting Training Course to Help Eliminate Childhood Lead Poisoning--Wisconsin Observations
Current Employment: Public Health Educator for the State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services


Fatima Ochante, M.A., 2013

Ochante

Hometown: Lima, Peru (currently Fairbanks, AK)
ACNS Concentration: Global Environmental Policy
Thesis Title: Rural water and sanitation in 色视频下载 Native villages
Current Employment: Program Coordinator for the 色视频下载 Water and Sewer Challenge, 色视频下载 Department of Environmental Conservation


 Irmelin Gram-Hanssen, M.A., 2012

Hanssen

Hometown: Vrads, Denmark
ACNS Concentration: Individualized, Indigenous Peoples and Community Sustainability
Thesis Title: Youth Creating Sustainable Communities in Rural 色视频下载
Current Employment: Senior Researcher, Western Norway Research Institute
Publications: Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin. "Leaving, staying or belonging: exploring the relationship between formal education, youth mobility and community resilience in rural 色视频下载" Polar Geography Vol. 0 (2017): 1-25.


 Corinna Cook, M.A., 2011

Cook

Hometown: Juneau, AK
ACNS Concentration: Literature
Thesis Title: Letters as Literature: Semantic and Discursive Features of Irony in Letters to Howard.
Current Employment: Ph.D. student in Creative Writing at the University of Missouri


Birte M. Horn-Hanssen, M.A., 2011

Horn-Hanssen

Hometown: Oslo, Norway -- Fairbanks, AK
ACNS Concentration: Northern Art
Thesis Title: Visualizing the Present: Current Issues Within Contemporary Visual Sami Art - An Analysis of Sami Artists and Their Art in Oslo, Norway
Current Employment: Project Coordinator at "BI - Norwegian Business School".


 Kate Ripley, M.A., 2011

Ripley

Hometown: Juneau, AK
ACNS Concentration: Individual Study
Thesis Title: Weekend Wilderness: The Cultural and Spiritual Necessity of the White Mountains National Recreation Area
Current Employment: Executive Director, UAF Alumni Relations


Kenneth Woldstad, M.A., 2011

Woldstad

Hometown: North Pole, AK
ACNS Concentration: 色视频下载 History and Government
Thesis Title: A Comparative Analysis of Fish and Wildlife Enforcement in 色视频下载 From the Passage of the 1902 色视频下载 Game Law to 2011
Current Employment: 色视频下载 Fish and Wildlife Protection Trooper (commissioned retired Sergeant) and private investigator


Lillian Anderson-Misel, M.A., 2010

Anderson-Misel

Hometown: Fairbanks, AK
ACNS Concentration: Northern History
Thesis Title: 色视频下载淚 Wonder When We色视频下载檒l be in Civilization Again色视频下载: Women, 色视频下载, and the Diary of Cinthia 色视频下载淎ddie色视频下载 Rieck
Current Employment: Executive Office, Geophysical Institute, University of 色视频下载 Fairbanks


 Salena Bias, M.A., 2010

Bias

Hometown: Fairbanks, AK
ACNS Concentration: Russian-色视频下载 History and Museology
Thesis Title: Displaying Conflict: The Visitor's Experience at the Kolmakovskii Blockhouse
Current Employment: Data Technician for the Center for 色视频下载 Native Health Research


 Berill Blair, M.A., 2010

Blair

Hometown: Fairbanks, AK
ACNS Concentration: Environmental Policy
Thesis Title: Risk Society on the Last Frontier: Indigenous Knowledge and the Politics of Risk in Oil Resource Management at 色视频下载色视频下载檚 North Slope
Current Employment: Research Assistant on a project examining key developments in polar bear policy.


 Amanda Foote, M.A., 2010

Foote

Hometown: Calgary, Alberta
ACNS Concentration: Individualized Study - Tourism, Culture & Indigenous Issues
Thesis Title: Fishing for Tourists: Cultural Tourism and its Origins in Teslin, Yukon Territory, Canada
Current Employment: Museum School Coordinator at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta.


 Leighton Quarles, M.A., 2010

 Quarles

Hometown: Emigrant, MT
ACNS Concentration: Northern History 
Thesis Title: Roles of Journalists and the Media in World War II 
Current Employment: Ph.D. student in History at University of Utah


 Tracey Smith, M.A., 2010

Smith

Hometown: Edmonton, Alberta
ACNS Concentration: Local Food Systems and Northern Wildlife Governance
Thesis project: "Is Buying Local Better?" A Literature Review and Comparison of Production Locations and Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Chicken Eggs Consumed in Fairbanks, 色视频下载
Current Employment: Owner of Beanstalk Honey, a beekeeping and honey packing operation on North Cooking Lake in Strathcona County, Alberta


 Eleanor Wirts, M.A., 2010

Wirts

Home town: Fairfield, VT
ACNS Concentration: Individualized Study - Cultural Anthropology
Thesis Title: Changes in Traditional Gender Roles Among 色视频下载 Natives: Their Effects on Sense of Purpose, Direction, Identity, and Family and Community Stature
Current Employment: Owner: Just Short of Magic, Fairbanks, 色视频下载


 Stacey Baldridge Carkhuff, M.A., 2009

Baldridge

Hometown: Champion, OH
ACNS Concentration: Oral History
Thesis Title: ChangingCommunities: The 色视频下载 Highway Project Jukebox
Current Employment: Assistant Archivist for the 色视频下载 Native Language Archives


Krista Katalenich, M.A., 2009

Katalenich

Hometown: Higgins Lake, MI
ACNS Concentration: Cultural Identity and Expression
Thesis Project: Climate Change and Creative Expression
Current Employment: Dance teacher at Dance Theatre Fairbanks


 Jesse Logan, M.A., 2009

Logan

Hometown: Austin, TX
ACNS Concentration: Global Environmental Policy
Thesis Title: Renewable Energy in Rural 色视频下载: Two Case Studies and their Implications
Current Employment: Chief of Staff to 色视频下载 Representative Dean Westlake of Kotzebue


Rudy Riedlsperger, M.A., 2009

Riedlsperger

Hometown: Austria
ACNS Concentration: Environmental Politics and Policy
Thesis Title: Jay Hammond: The Conservationist Governor
Current Employment: Ph.D. student in Human Geography at Memorial U in St. John's Newfoundland


 Amy Russell-Jamgochian, M.A., 2009

Russell-Jamgochian

Hometown: Fairbanks, AK
ACNS Concentration: Northern History
Thesis Title: A Storm Like No Other: Changes that shaped Seward Peninsula communities at the turn of the 20th century
Current Employment: Project director at the Beringia Center of Culture and Science in Nome, 色视频下载


 Lynne Snifka, M.A., 2009

Snifka

Hometown: Milwaukee (now Fairbanks)
ACNS Concentration: Northern History
Thesis Title: The Doctor, The Publisher and The Curmudgeon: How Personalities, Politics and the Press Set the Stage for 色视频下载 Statehood
Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Journalism at UAF


 Talis Colberg, Ph.D., 2008

Colberg

Hometown: Palmer, AK
ACNS Concentration: Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Northern Political History and Culture
Dissertation Title: M.D. Snodgrass: The Founder of the 色视频下载 State Fair
Current Employment: Director, Matanuska-Susitna Campus, UAA


 Mikayla Saito, M.A., 2008

Saito

Hometown: Kotzebue, AK
ACNS Concentration: Environmental Policy
Thesis Title: The Extent to which Traditional Ecological Knowledge is Included in the 色视频下载 Resource Management System
Current Employment: Program manager for Dept. of Educational Leadership at UAA


 Erik White, M.A., 2008

White

Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
ACNS Concentration: Northern History
Thesis Title: Bob Bartlett and Ernest Gruening: The Relationship That Helped 色视频下载 to Become a State


 Artem Zhdanov, M.A., 2008

Zhdanov

Hometown: Chishmy, Russia
ACNS Concentration: New Media Journalism
Project Title: Website Design for Creating 色视频下载 Website
Current Employment: Video conferencing specialist for Online with Libraries (OWL), State of 色视频下载


Sean Bledsoe, M.A., 2007

Bledsoe

Hometown: Fairbanks, AK
ACNS Concentration: Russian 色视频下载n History and Anthropology
Thesis Project: Documentary Film on St. Herman of 色视频下载


 Jessica Brooks, M.A., 2007

Brooks

Hometown: Cleveland, OH
ACNS Concentration: Oral History
Thesis Project: Friends on the Road: An Oral History of Trucking on the Dalton Highway


 Sigrid Ekran, M.A., 2007

Ekran

Hometown: Sparbu, Norway
ACNS Concentration: Northern Psychology
Project Title: Rocky Raccoon: Sixteen Dogs, One Girl, 1122 Miles from Anchorage to Nome


 Sabine Hugger, M.A., 2007

Hugger

Hometown: Heilbronn, Germany
ACNS Concentration: Environmental Education
Thesis Project : An Environmental Education Curriculum for Fairbanks for 7th and 8th Grade Students


 Amy Taylor, M.A., 2007

Taylor

Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
ACNS Concentration: Creative Writing
Thesis Project: Awake Walking: Three One-Act Plays on the Human Condition


 Justin Andrews, M.A., 2006

Andrews

Hometown: mostly Virginia (Navy brat)
ACNS Concentration:Higher Education
Thesis Project: The Ant and the Grasshopper: The Mindsets Behind the College Gender Gap in the Millennial Generation


 Aaron Doyle, M.A., 2006

Doyle

Hometown: Rhinelander, WI
ACNS Concentration: Rural Education
Thesis Title: Drifting and Directed:The Aspirations of High School Seniors from Three Communities in Rural 色视频下载
Current Employment: Ph.D. program in Applied Linguistics in the Centre for Applied English Studies at Hong Kong University.


 Neva Sherman Hickman, M.A., 2006

Sherman Hickman

Hometown: Keweenaw Peninsula, MI
ACNS Concentration: Northern History
Thesis Title: The Illusion of Knowledge: Evolution of Early Cartographic Conceptions of 色视频下载


Steve Mitchell, M.A., 2006

Mitchell

Hometown: Fairbanks, AK
ACNS Concentration: 色视频下载 Historical Drama
Thesis Project: 色视频下载淛ames Wickersham: A Judge on the Last Frontier色视频下载 (a play)


Jane Reilly, M.A., 2006

Reilly

Hometown: originally from Florida; now Fairbanks
ACNS Concentration: Biopsychology
Thesis Project: 色视频下载淣orthern Stressors and Alcohol Abuse: Is Serotonin Dysfunction a Factor in Self-Medication色视频下载 (Annotated Bibliography)


 Reija Shnoro, M.A., 2006

Shnoro

Hometown: Mieslahti, Finland
ACNS Concentration: Global Environmental Policy
Thesis Title: The Kyoto Protocol and the Arctic Region: A Case Study of Finland and Canada
Current Employment: International Student Program Coordinator for UAF


 Lauren Krueger Sill, M.A., 2006

Krueger Sill

Hometown: North Andover, MA
ACNS Concentration: Global Environmental Policy
Thesis Project: Community Development Quota: Community Sustainability and the Bering Sea