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ANNA M. KERTTULA, PhD
Program Director
Arctic Social Sciences
Sept. 2002-Present, Program Director for Arctic Social Sciences. National Science Foundation.
1998-2002, Associate Director for Natural Resources, the Environment, Fisheries and Rural Policy, Alaska
Governor's Washington, DC, Office.
1993-1998, Legislative Assistant for Russian Affairs and Nuclear Waste Policy, U.S. Senator Ted Stevens.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1991-1992 Adjunct Faculty, Undergraduate Advisor, University of Michigan (UM).
1988 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Anthropology 222, Cross Cultural Comparisons, UM.
1987 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Anthropology 101, Introduction to Anthropology, UM.
1986 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Anthropology 101, Introduction to Anthropology, UM.
1984 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Anthropology 242, Native Cultures of Alaska, University of Alaska,
(UA).
1983 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Anthropology 101, Introduction to Anthropology, UA.
1983 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Anthropology 242, Native Cultures of Alaska, UA.
1982-1983 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Anthropology 101, Introduction to Anthropology (Special section for rural students), UA.
1980-1981 Instructor, Mathematics 106 and 107, Algebra and Trigonometry, University of Alaska Mat-Su.
EDUCATION
1986-1997 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of Anthropology, PhD.
1982-1985 University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Department of Anthropology, MA.
1978-1981 University of Alaska, Anchorage, Department of Anthropology and Department of
Mathematics, BS.
ENTHOGRAPHIC RESEARCH
2010-present Community migration narratives; a study of the effects of out-migration on social organization in three indigenous communities in the Bajio region of Mexico.
1989-1991 & 1994 Dissertation research among the Chukchi and Yupik (Eskimo) in the Far North East of the Commonwealth of Independent Nations (then Soviet Union).
1984 Research Assistant, Mat-Su Borough Historic Commission's Agricultural Sites and History Project.
1983 Research Assistant, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Outer Continental Shelf Survey; A Study of Economic Systems in Three Coastal Yupik (Eskimo) Villages.
1983 Research Volunteer, Alaska Women’s Commission; Study of Domestic Violence in Rural Alaska.

Anna M. Kerttula
1982 Research Volunteer, State of Alaska, Department of Fish and Game; A Study of Subsistence in the
Community of Nenana.
1985-1986 Research of the Russian and American periods on St. Paul Island, Pribiloff, Alaska, based on the Russian Orthodox Church Records.
1984 "Russian Ahtna Contact in Oral Tradition." Research based on oral tradition, Russian American
Company records, and travel reports.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD WORK
1985 Crew Chief, Tazlina Lake Site Structure Project.
1984 Field Crew, Nenana Early Man Project.
1980 Field Assistant, Prudhoe Bay Archaeological Survey.
LANGUAGES
Russian: Fluent speaker and reader, average writing ability, 4 years formal study, 2 years immersion;
Armenian: 1 year formal study; Spanish: average comprehension, basic reading and writing, 2 years formal study.
PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
2010 “The Social Face of Climate Change.” CUNY Environmental Forum.
2009 “The Social and Cultural Affects of Climate Change.” Guest Lecture at the Explorers Club
Washington, DC.
2000 Antler on the Sea: the Yup'ik and Chukchi of the Russian Far East . Cornell University Press:Ithaca.
2000 "The Democratization and Povertization of Chukotka: the Disenfranchisement of Yup'ik and
Chukchi People in the New Russia." Invited presenter, Workshop on "Postsocialisms in the Russian
North." Max Planck Institute for Social Anthroplogy, Halle, Germany.
1993 "Chukchi Reindeer Herders and Yupik Sea Mammal Huinters of Sireniki: Cultural Reproduction
Under Soviet Ideology." Invited lecture, Smithsonian Siberian Series.
1993 "The Chukchi and Yupik of Sireniki." Invited lecture, Goucher College.
1992 "The Gift: Reciprocity and Social Organization among the Chukchi and Yupik of Chukotka."
Presented American Anthropological Conference, San Francisco.
1992 Symposium organizer and moderator. "Western Perspectives of Siberia." Presented American
Anthropological Conference, San Francisco.
1992 "Chukchi Reindeer Herders and Yupik Sea Mammal Hunters of Sireniki: Cultural Reproduction
Under Soviet Ideology." Submitted to Symposium on Cultural Studies of the Soviet Union, Columbia
University.
1992 "Chukchi Reindeer Herders of Sireniki; Social and Cultural Change among Native People under
Soviet Ideology," accepted for publication, U.S. National Parks Service Alaska Region, Anchorage, One
Man's Heritage Project of the Shared Beringian Heritage Program: Ethnohistory.
1992 "Chukchi Reindeer Herders and Yupik Sea Mammal Hunters of Chukotka." Invited lecture at the
Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies, University of Michigan.
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1992 "Chukchi Reindeer Herders and Yupik Sea Mammal Hunters of Chukotka," Invited lecture at the
University of Michigan, Museum of Anthropology, Brown Bag Lecture Series.
1991 "Sireniki Chronicle." Produced by the Commission D' Anthropologie Visuelle, Producer Dr. Asen
Balikci. Presented American Anthropological Association Conference, Chicago.
1990 "Symbols and Sturctures; The Effects of Economic Change on Symbolic Systems in a Chukotkian
Village." Presented at the Applied Anthopology Conference, York, England.
1985 "Russian-Ahtna Contact in Oral Tradition." Presented in the Oral History Symposium at the Alaska
Anthropological Association conference, Anchorage, Alaska, March.
AWARDS
1992 Nominee, Rackham Graduate School Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan.
1991 Department of Anthropology Block Grant for Candidate Research and Writing, University of
Michigan.
1990 Hewitt Foundation Research Grant, Program to Promote International Partnerships, University of
Michigan.
1990 Travel grant, University of Alaska, Anchorage.
1989-1991 Research Stipend, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Magadan, Russia.
1988 Summer Scholarship, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Michigan.
1987-1988 Foreign Language Association Scholarship (FLAS), University of Michigan.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society, American Society for
Ethnohistory, Alaskan Anthropological Association.
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