About

I am a social anthropologist and much of my research to date has been carried out in Greenland, Alaska, Canada, Finland, Scotland and Wales. I am interested in the anthropology and environmental history of weather and climate; environmental change and resource use issues in rural and coastal communities; the anthropology of energy and extractive industries; place and locality; identities and borderlands; and geopolitics.

I read sociology and social anthropology at the University of Aberdeen and did my PhD at the University of Cambridge. I am currently Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. I am also Adjunct Professor at the University of Greenland and Greenland Climate Research Centre in Nuuk and a Senior Associate Scientist at the Stefansson Arctic Institute in Akureyri. I was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2008.

For further information about my research, please see marknuttall.com