The third lecture in the Havighurst Center's Fall 2024 Colloquium Series, "Humanity and the Arctic".
Tahnee Prior is an interdisciplinary scholar of Arctic governance; more specifically, her research focuses on how institutional design can help or hinder the ability of society to adapt to rapidly changing environments, like the Arctic. Prior approach this research from multiple perspectives including global governance, international legal theory, Indigenous peoples’ rights, and gender.
Currently, Prior is a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, working together with Dr. Sara Seck, at the Marine & Environmental Law (MELAW) Institute of the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. Her ongoing research at MELAW examines the intersection of gender and the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Specifically, it examines how the UNCLOS – the fundamental international framework for governing all oceans and the Arctic, as well as one of the implementation mechanisms identified by Sustainable Development Goal 14 – applies to Arctic Indigenous and non-Indigenous women who engage with a changing Arctic Ocean.
