Roza Laptander

Researcher (Orhelia -project)

Sustainable Development Research Group /
Anthropology research team

tel. +358 404844077

Roza has gotten her PhD from Saint-Petersburg Institute of the Northern People, Russian Federation. Spheres of her research lie on sociolinguistics, Nenets language and Nenets speaking societies, ethnography, linguistic anthropology, socio-cultural changes, multicultural and language contacts.

She did her field work mostly in Yamal peninsular among Tundra Nenets reindeer herders. She has several publications about Nenets language.

In ORHELIA project she does her part of the work about Nenets reindeer herders in the Yamal Peninsula, their traditional knowledge and oral history about the past and Nenets reaction to present life in conditions of intensive development and industrialization of their traditional territories.