Higher seminar "Reassembling the Environmental Archives of the Cold War: Perspectives from the Russian North"

This seminar is the final seminar for doctoral student Dmitry Arzyutov with Andy Bruno, University of Northern Illinois as opponent. Dmitry is an anthropologist and environmental historian working in the Arctic and Siberia. He holds a doctorate in anthropology [Candidate of Sciences, Kunstkamera, St. Petersburg] and is currently working on his second Ph.D with us. In this research project, Dmitry focus on transnational histories of indigenous and academic environmental knowledge in the Russian Arctic. Being trained both as historian and anthropologist he applies various methods in his research, from the content analysis of archival documents to collaborative ethnographies with local communities in the Russian Arctic (Nenets predominantly).