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Peter P. Schweitzer
a. Professional Preparation
University of Vienna, Austria
b. Appointments
2007-present
2002-present
2000-2001
1997-2002
1992-1997
1991-1992
1992-present
Social Anthropology
Social Anthropology
Social Anthropology
Social Anthropology
B.A. equivalent, 1983
M.A. equivalent, 1985
Ph.D., 1990
Habilitation (post-doctoral thesis), 2002
Director, Alaska EPSCoR
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Visiting Professor, Institute of Ethnology, Cultural and Social Anthropology,
University of Vienna
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska
Fairbanks
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska
Fairbanks
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska
Fairbanks
Lecturer, Institute of Ethnology, Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of
Vienna
c. Publications
i) Five most relevant
E. Marino, D. White, P. Schweitzer, M. Chambers, and J. Wisniewski. 2009. “Drinking Water in
Northwestern Alaska: Using or Not Using Centralized Water Systems in Two Rural Communities,”
Arctic 62(1): 75-82.
E. Marino and P. Schweitzer. 2009. “Talking and Not Talking about Climate Change in Northwestern
Alaska,” in Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions. S. Crate and M. Nuttall,
Eds. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press: 209-217.
P. Schweitzer and E. Golovko. 2007. “The ‘Priests’ of East Cape: A Religious Movement on the Chukchi
Peninsula during the 1920s and 1930s”, Études/Inuit/Studies 31(1-2): 39-58.
P. Schweitzer, N. Vakhtin and E. Golovko. 2005. “The Difficulty of Being Oneself: Identity Politics of
“Old-Settler” Communities in Northeastern Siberia,” in Rebuilding Identities: Pathways to Reform in
Post-Soviet Siberia. Erich Kasten, ed. Berlin: Reimer: 135-151.
Y. Csonka and P. Schweitzer. 2004. “Societies and Cultures: Change and Persistence,” in Arctic Human
Development Report. Akureyri: Stefansson Arctic Institute: 45-68.
ii) Five other significant publications
P. Schweitzer, L. Alessa, A. Kliskey, S. Yamin-Pasternak. 2010. “Livelihoods on Thawing Ground:
Relationships with Water Resources Near the Bering Strait.” Anthropology News 51(2): 22, 24.
E. Golovko and P. Schweitzer. 2007. “A Song as Worthy as a Dog: A Note on Alien Elements in Bering
Strait Folklore”, in AB-60. Sbornik statey k 60-letiyu A.K. Bayburina. St. Petersburg: Izdatel’stvo
Evropeyskogo universiteta v Sankt-Peterburge: 288-297.
I. Krupnik, M. Bravo, Y. Csonka, G. Hovelsrud-Broda, L. Müller-Wille, B. Poppel, P. Schweitzer and S.
Sörlin. 2005. “Social Sciences and Humanities in the International Polar Year 2007–2008: An
Integrating Mission.” Arctic 58(1): 91-101.
N. Vakhtin, E. Golovko and P. Schweitzer. 2004. Russian Old-Settlers of Siberia: Social and Symbolic
Aspects of Identity (in Russian). Moscow: Novoe Izdatel’stvo.
P. Schweitzer. 2000. “The Social Anthropology of the Russian Far North.” In The Arctic: Environment,
People, Policy. M. Nuttall and T. Callaghan, Eds. Amsterdam: Harwood Acad. Publishers: 411-39.
d. Synergistic Activities
2010-present
Member, Board of Directors, Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS)
2010-present
Member, Editorial Board of the Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research
2007-present
Project Leader, Moved by the State: Perspectives on Relocation and Resettlement in
the Circumpolar North (MOVE) project, European Science Foundation
2006-present
Co-project leader, Arctic Social Indicator (ASI) project
2006-2011
U.S. Minerals Management Service, Outer Continental Shelf Scientific Com. Member
2005-2010
SEARCH Science Steering Committee Member
2001-2004
President, International Arctic Social Sciences Association (council member 20042011); organizer of ICASS V.
Field Research: Wales and Nome, AK: Summers 2005, 2004, 1996, 1994, 1992; Little Diomede, AK:
Summers 1996, 1994; Shishmaref, AK: Summers 2005, 2004, 1996, 1992; Teller, AK:
Summers 1996, 1992; Council, Elim, Golovin, Solomon, and White Mountain, AK:
Summer 2004. Republic Saka (Yakutia), Russian Federation (Cherskiy, Chokurdakh,
Pokhodsk, Russkoe Ust’e): Summer 1999 Chukotsky Rayon, Russian Far East
(Lavrentiia, Uelen, Inchoun, Lorino): Summer 1995, Summer 1993 Providensky
Rayon, Russian Far East (Provideniia, New Chaplino, Sireniki, Ianrakynnot): Summer
1993, Spring 1991, Summer 1990; Anadyr', Russian Far East: Summer 1995, Spring
1991, Summer 1990
e. Collaborators
Collaborators and Co-Editors: Lilian Alessa (UAA); Michael Bravo (U of Cambridge); Terry Chapin
(UAF); Jessica Cherry (UAF); Susie Crate (George Mason U); Yvon Csonka (U of Greenland); Gail
Fondahl (U Northern British Columbia); Evgeniy Golovko (European U St. Petersburg); Ernst Halbmayer
(U of Marburg); Patrick Heady (Max Planck, Halle/Saale); Timothy Heleniak (U of Maryland); Larry
Hinzman (UAF); Grete Hovelsrud (CICERO, Norway); Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox (Fox Consulting,
Yellowknife); Lawrence Kaplan (UAF); Leslie King (Vancouver Island University); Deanna Kingston
(Oregon State U); Andrew Kliskey (UAA); Igor Krupnik (Smithsonian); Joan Nymand Larsen
(Stefansson Arctic Institute); Elke Mader (U of Vienna); Ludger Mueller-Wille (McGill U); Arthur
Mason (Arizona State U); Birger Poppel (U of Greenland); Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill (U of Alberta);
Svenker Sörlin (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Florian Stammler (U of Lapland); Nikolai
Vakhtin (European U St. Petersburg); Dan White (UAF).
Graduate Advisors: Walter Dostal (U of Vienna), Christian Feest (Museum of Ethnology, Vienna).
Thesis Advisor: UAF: Esther Antohin (M.A. advisor; 2005); Judith Brakel (M.A. advisor, 1999); Medeia
Csoba DeHass (Ph.D. advisor, 2009); Davin Holen (Ph.D. advisor); Tobias Holzlehner (Ph.D. advisor,
2006; UAF post-doc); Michael Koskey (Ph.D. advisor, 2003; UAF); Lars Krutak (M.A. advisor, 1999;
Smithsonian); Elizabeth Marino (Ph.D. advisor); Stacie McIntosh (M.A. advisor, 1999; BLM); Beth
Mikow (M.A. advisor, 2010); Andrea Neighbors (M.A. advisor; 2008); Kenneth Pratt (Ph.D. advisor,
2009; BIA); Feng Qu (Ph.D. co-advisor); Julie Raymond-Yakoubian (Ph.D. advisor); Martin Robards
(Ph.D. co-advisor, 2008); James Schwarber (Ph.D. advisor); James Simon (Ph.D. advisor, 1998; AK
Dept. of Fish and Game); Josh Wisniewski (Ph.D. advisor, 2010); Sveta Yamin-Pasternak (Ph.D. advisor,
2007; UAF post-doc). University of Vienna: Eva Ackermann (M.A. advisor, 2003); Ingrid Arztmann
(M.A. advisor, 2008); Doris Danzinger-Hauer (M.A. advisor, 2003); Gertrude Eilmsteiner-Saxinger
(M.A. advisor, 2004; Ph.D. advisor); Markus Hirnsperger (M.A. advisor, 2003; PhD. advisor); Agnes
Hohensinner (M.A. advisor); Cornelia Koller (M.A. advisor, 2009); Barbara Kreil (M.A. advisor, 2004);
Olivia Lasser (M.A. advisor, 2010).