Igor Krupnik is curator of Arctic and Northern Ethnology
collections at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
in Washington, D.C. His areas of expertise include modern cultures,
ecological knowledge, and cultural heritage of Arctic people,
primarily in Alaska and Siberia; culture change and contact
history; human ecology; history of Arctic science and Arctic
indigenous studies; and the impact of modern climate change on
Arctic residents. He served on the Joint Committee for the
International Polar Year 2007-2008 and was instrumental in bringing
sociocultural and humanities issues, ecological
knowledge, and environmental observations of northern residents to
its program.He has published and edited several books and
collections and numerous papers, including three volumes on
indigenous observations of Arctic environmental change and a recent
study of the contact history of the Yupik Eskimo, Yupik
Transitions- Change and Survival at Bering Strait, 1900-1960 (with
MichaelChlenov).
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