 PhD Florian Stammler
Senior researcher (coordinator)
Florian has done research in many regions of the Russian North for the past10 years, and has ever since enjoyed the particularities of how life is organized in the post-Soviet space. He specializes in the processes of industrialisation and how it changes the face of the North. Of particular interest are the ever increasing activities around mineral resource extraction. More information. |
 PhD Anna Stammler-Gosmann
Researcher
Anna has specialised in Arctic anthropology since 1995, particularly the Russian North (North West Russia, West and North East Siberia) and Fennoscandia. Her interests lie in the assessment of impact of climate change on human activities in the North such as fisheries, shipping, oil- and gas extraction, tourism; sustainable development, arctic individual and collective identities, (North and spatial identity), relations between indigenous people and incoming populations, centre-periphery relations in Russia, legal dimensions of indigeneity, cross-border relations. More information |
PhD candidate Terhi Vuojala-Magga
Researcher
Terhi is currently finishing her PhD about the perception of long term climatic change among Sami reindeer herders. She is interested in the anthropological fieldwork methodologies and British traditions of anthropology. She is a specialist in Sámi culture and livelihood, especially reindeer management and fishing in Inari region. She is personally practicing these livelihoods in Ivalo and Kuttura. Her great passion is radical empirics, beside Sámi she has done fieldwork among Ob Khanty people in Western Siberia, and in Oulu region among the farmers of Sievi and victims of family violence (articles published in Finnish language). She is also interested in the theoretical discussions based on Tim Ingolds work of evolution theory, learning and skills. More information. |
PhD Nuccio Mazzulo
Research affiliate
Nuccio got his PhD from the University of Manchester in Social Anthropology with a thesis on perception of landscape and concepts of space among Sami people in Northeastern Finland, where his regional specialization lies; in particular he has done fieldwork with Sámi reindeer herders in Sallivaara Reindeeer Association. The research focused on people’s relations with the landscape and on its influence in fashioning their sense of identity. More general issues of perception of the landscape, place and mobility play a prominent role in the research. More information. |
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PhD Nina Meschtyb
Researcher
Nina Meschtyb got her phD from the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Ethnology and Anthropology.
She has extensive fieldwork experience in Russia, among
European and Yamal Nenets reindeer herders, and also in Murmansk and
Amur regions. Her main interests are in postsocialist transformation,
gender in the tundra, cultural impacts of industrialisation, and
relations of people to their authorities. She is also an excellent field
photographer and has contributed to exhibitions on- and offline
internationally.
In ORHELIA she will work with Kola Sami on their perception
of and relations to the Soviet and post Soviet state through oral
history and biographic interview analysis.
Email: meschtyb(at)mail.ru, phone: +358404844078
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PhD candidate Roza Laptander
Researcher
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.
tel. +358 404844077
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PhD Stephan Dudeck
Researcher
Stephan got his phD from the University of Leipzig with a thesis on
public and private spheres among the West Siberian Khanty under the
impact of large scale oil extraction. He has been working in the Russian
North since the early 1990s and has also field experience in post
Soviet Central Asia. His main interests are in the analysis of privacy
and intimacy, the theory of hiding and exhibiting, taiga reindeer
herding, and the impacts of extractive industries in the Russian North.He works in the ORHELIA project on the relations between states and their northernmost residents with a focus on the European Nentsy.
email: sdudeck@ulapland.fi, phone: +358404844079
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PhD Candidate Rudolf Havelka
Researcher
Rudolf has got his masters in religious studies and
archaeology from Brno, Czech Republic. He is interested in cognitive
anthropology and the link between archaeology, anthropology and ecoloy
for understanding sacred landscapes of Siberia. In his phD research, his
goal is to develop an explanatory theory and research method of the
function of places with religious symbolism (such as „natural“
sanctuaries, offering places, burial grounds, gathering places etc.) in
the processes of transmission of socio-religious representations.
Fieldwork is scheduled in Siberia among the Forest Nentsy, a
semi-nomadic group of hunters and herders on the northern fringes of the
Taiga in the Khanty-Mansi and Yamal-Nenets autonomous regions in Russia.
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Guest Researchers & Interns
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Fulbright Grantee 2011-2012
Paul Robert Burgess
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Intern 2012 Minka Labba
 Minka is currently finishing her Masters about the Sámi Council, she studies sociology at the University of Lapland and has a strong interest in social anthropology including fieldwork with participant observation. She has been studying mainly indigenous issues in the Arctic. Her bachelor was on indigenous identity, and interests lie in traditional knowledge, political activities, relations with nature and indigenous belief systems. In the ORHELIA project she will be working mostly with life histories among the Sámi in Finland, especially with Skolt Sámi. Email: mvuontis@ulapland.fi , phone: +35840 4844250.
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Past Staff
Alla Bolotova 2006-2010
Elena Nuykina 2007-2010
Past Interns
Simona Mertic 2009
Anna Maria Manz 2010
Jacinthe Racine 2010
Natalia Bochkareva 2011
Trevelyan Wing 2011
Anne-Marie Lapointe 2011
Affiliates
Klemetti Näkkäläjärvi
Lydia Heikkilä
Carol Brown-Leonardi
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