Photo showing participants in Arctic Voices’s first workshop at the Riddu Riđđu Festvála, Gáivuotna (Kåfjord), Norway, 2019.

Lill Tove Fredriksen

Lill Tove is Associate Professor in Sámi Literature at UiT Norgga árktalaš universitehta/ UiT The Arctic University of Tromsø. She has a special interest in oral traditions, contemporary Sámi prose, traditional knowledge, Indigenous methodologies, the Sámi language, Sámi history, and the development and the situation of the Sámi language in today’s society. Lill Tove Fredriksen has published widely in the Sámi language, and in Norwegian and English, on coping skills, old Sámi songs from the municipality of Porsanger, contemporary prose and traditional knowledge in Sámi literature. She participates in public debates concerning Sámi issues. She is a an editorial board member of the Sámi scientific journal Sámi dieđalaš áigečálá (2018-present), the current chair of the Portefolio board for Sámi research (the Board for Sámi research, part of the Norwegian Research Council, 2022-2026), and a member of the Norwegian UNESCO Commission (2021-2025).

Silje Gaupseth

Silje is Associate Professor in polar cultural history and Director of the Polar Museum, UiT. She researches northern cultural history, queer museology, and polar literature. Her most recent work is the exhibition Queering Polar History (2022) and the co-edited book Kjønn i isen: Fragmenter til ei ny polarhistorie (Gaupseth and Hauan 2024).

Sophie Gilmartin

Sophie, PhD, is Reader Emerita at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has published widely on the Victorian novel, short story, maritime history, and the Arctic. Her most recent article is ‘A Map of Divergence and Connection: Voices from Nineteenth-Century Nunavut and Aberdeen’ in Interventions (vol. 25, issue 7). 

Lena Gudd

Lena is a PhD candidate within the Arctic Voices project at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Her work engages with John Savio's and Ellisif Wessel's art works to examine the historical interplay between agricultural practices, soil relations, colonisation and Indigenous responses in East Finnmark, Sápmi at the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century. Holding a MA in European Studies, she is also an artist and has previously published and exhibited on multispecies relations in the North.

Charis Gullickson 

Charis is a curator at the Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum with a PhD in Art History. Her practice-based PhD project investigated curatorial strategies and methodologies for rethinking art in museums in the Circumpolar North. Craft and decolonization are her main areas of research interest. She has curated numerous exhibitions on Sámi art, along with several publications, such as Sámi Stories: Art and Identity of an Arctic People (2014). Recent curatorial projects include exhibitions Like Betzy (2019) and Intersections: Aslaug M. Juliussen (2018), with accompanying book (Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart). 

Sven Haakanson Jr.

Sven is Sugpiaq from Old Harbor, Alaska.  He is a Curator of North American Anthropology at the Burke Museum, and a Professor and the current Chair in Anthropology at the University of Washington. He engages communities in cultural revitalization using material reconstruction as a form of scholarship and teaching.

Ingeborg Høvik

Ingeborg is an Associate Professor of Art History at UiT the Arctic University of Norway. She is the project manager of Arctic Voices. Her research interests are Sámi and Kalaallit Inuit art and visual culture and the art and visual culture of European colonialism in the Arctic region in the nineteenth century. 

Axl Jeremiassen

Axl is an Inuit scholar from Nuuk with a Candidate degree from Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland. Currently he is a project manager for ICC Greenland and WWF-Canada. Since 2007 he has worked on various research projects, and before then was a public-school teacher in Greenland for fifteen years.

Renée Hulan

Renée is Professor of English Language and Literature at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and the 2020-2021 Craig Dobbin Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies at University College Dublin.  She is the author of Climate Change and Writing the Canadian Arctic, Canadian Historical Writing: Reading the Remains and Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture.  Having published scholarship by Indigenous and settler scholars in Native North America: Critical and Cultural Perspectives, she worked with Renate Eigenbrod to organize a gathering that led to Aboriginal Oral Traditions: Theory, Practice, Ethics. 

Sigfrid Kjeldaas

Sigfrid is a Researcher at NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, formerly at UiT The Arctic University of Norway (the Arctic Voices project). An interdisciplinary scholar with a background in literature, cultural studies and ecology, Sigfrid has worked on representations of nature and human-nature relationships within Arctic discourses, early zoology and contemporary debates on gene-editing technologies.

Lena Klein

Lena is a PhD student in the Arctic Voices Project at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. She studied American Studies, Spanish Literature, and Art History in Tübingen and Zaragoza. Funded by the Research Council of Norway, her PhD project examines the visual and textual account of Indigenous people living in the Arctic in Frederick Whymper’s (1838-1901) works. These images are an outcome of his exploration travels in Alaska, British Columbia, and Siberia.

Charmaine A. Nelson

Charmaine is a Professor of Art History, a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Black Diasporic Art and Community Engagement, and the founding director of the Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery at NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The author of 7 books, Nelson has made ground-breaking contributions to the fields of the Visual Culture of Slavery, Race and Representation, Black Canadian Studies, and African-Canadian Art History. She was the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard University (2017-2018) and a Fields of the Future Research Fellow at the Bard Graduate Center, NYC (2021). Charmaine is an Advisory Board member on Arctic Voices.

Eavan O’Dochartaigh

Eavan is an Honorary Research Lecturer and Postdoctoral Researcher in English at University of Galway, Ireland. Her current project (2022-26) “Exploring the Arctic Archive” is funded by the Irish Research Council's Pathway Programme (2022-26). Dr O'Dochartaigh's book, Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages (CUP, 2022) is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Raisa Porsanger

Porsanger is a North Sámi visual artist and curator from Lakselv and Karasjok, now living in Oslo. Her artistic production includes installations, sculptural works, video art, photography and illustration. For the exhibition, Raisa has created a frame decorated with sisti (leather) and woollen cloth that brings together traditions of duodji and western art history.

Henning Howlid Wærp

Henning is Professor of Nordic Literature at UiT. He is co-editor of Arctic Discourses (2010) and was a member of the steering committee for the research project Arctic Modernities, with multiple journal and book (2017) publications on Arctic literature.

Maria Shaa Tláa Williams

Maria was born in Tikahtnu, Alaska and is an enrolled member of the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska.  Dr Williams teaches in Alaska Native Studies at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. Her research interests include contemporary Alaska Native music and dance practices; Alaska Native history, the impact of colonialism and cultural revitalization. 

Alison E. Wright

Alison is an independent researcher and sometime curator, specialising in British art history and the representation of animals. She completed her PhD at the University of East Anglia and Tate Britain, and has worked at the British Museum and in the Art Collections of Royal Holloway, University of London.

Ulla-Britt Libre

Ulla-Britt is an intern assisting in editorial, website design, and exhibition work on the Arctic Voices Project. She is a senior at Dartmouth College, where she studies English and Creative Writing, with a focus on creative non-fiction. Her passion lies in telling stories. She is originally from Alta, Utah and has Swedish heritage. In her free time, Ulla loves to ski and bake sourdough bread.

Jérémie McGowan

Jérémie is a designer, artist and researcher based in Romsa / Tromsø. Originally from Wilmington, NC, USA, he teaches, exhibits and curates internationally. In 2021 he founded Arctic Armpit, a one-man punk band, experimental thinktank and activist design agency. Jérémie is currently a postdoc at UiT The Arctic University Museum of Norway.

Per Asle Sara

Per Asle comes from a Northern Sámi reindeer herding family and is an illustrative artist who dabbles with paintings and drawings. He holds a master’s degree in art history which specialized in contemporary Sámi political art. His interests lie in Sámi art and culture, both historical and contemporary, and its future.

Bolatta Silis-Høegh

Bolatta is a Kalaallit-Latvian visual artist. In the past years, she has been working on issues concerning generational trauma, sexism, socialisation, and how her paintings and installations may invite to healing through selfcare. For the exhibition, Bolatta is contributing two works, Mountains heard her voice and Pitit - Yours.

Ulrikke Marie Strandli

Ulrikke is a master’s student in art history at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She is based in Tromsø but has roots in Skardalen, Kåfjord. Her bachelor’s thesis was on Sámi contemporary art and duodji, and she has held an internship at the Davvi Álbmogiid Guovddáš (Center for Northern Peoples).