The fifth lecture in the Havighurst Center's Fall 2024 Colloquium series, "Humanity and the Arctic"
Igor Krupnik received his Ph.D. in anthropology/cultural ecology at the Institute of Ethnography in Moscow, Russia (1977) and has been active in Arctic socio-cultural and heritage research since the 1970s. He currently works as Curator of Arctic and Northern ethnology collections at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. He has conducted fieldwork in local communities in the Russian Arctic and in Alaska, especially in the Northern Bering-Sea-Bering Strait region. His main fields of interest include socio-cultural systems of northern indigenous people, community adaptation to rapid change, environmental knowledge, and heritage/knowledge preservation.
