Contact A. Nicole Stuckenberger, Ph.D.
John Sloan Dickey Center's Institute for Arctic Studies
Dartmouth College, Hanover NH 03755, USA
603 646 2043
Department of Anthropology
Dartmouth College
603 646 0926
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dickey Center Institute of Artic Studies
at Dartmouth College
Lecturer at Utrecht University, Netherlands
Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University, Netherlands
M.A. in Cultural Anthropology at Westfaelische-Wilhelms-University,
Muenster, Germany
Joined the Institute of Arctic Studies at the John Sloan Dickey Center for
International Understanding at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH as
Stefansson Postdoctoral Fellow in 2005.
Currently Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of
Anthropology at Dartmouth College.
Academic Interests
Religion and society, Pentecostal movement; ecological anthropology,
climate change, indigenous conceptualizations of climate and weather,
adaptation; anthropology of knowledge; social change; methodology
and epistemology; museum anthropology and exhibitions; Arctic regions,
Inuit; hunting societies.
My current work on exhibitions and associated publications is part of the
IPY project #160 (see links below).
Selected Publications
Books: 2007 Thin Ice: Inuit traditions within a changing environment.
With contributions by William Fitzhugh, Aqqaluk Lynge and Kesler
Woodward. Hanover/London: Hood Museum of Art/UPNE, 80p.
2005 Community at play: social and religious dynamics in the Inuit
community of Qikqitarjuaq. Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publisher, 241p.
Articles: 2007 (submitted) Pentecostalism in the Inuit community of Qikiqtarjuaq,
Nunavut: discourses on continuity. In: Recherches amérindiennes au
Quebec.
2007 (in press) Sociality, temporality, and locality in a contemporary
Inuit community. In: Études Inuit Studies, vol. 30(2).
2007 (submitted) Inuit Pentecostal Conversion and Social Restoration:
“When you grew up, you rebelled. So you must be born again. When you
are born again, you are like a little baby, newborn.” In: Anthropologie et
Société (thematic issue: Du foetus au chamane).
2007 (invited) Inuit, Science, Policy and the Cultural Dimension of
Climate Change (work title). Anthropology and Cliamte Change: From
Encounters to Actions (work title). Crate, S. & Nuttall, M. (Eds.). Walnut
Creek, Ca: Left Coast Press.
2007 (in press) Contribution to Remie, C.: Klimawandel en het leven van
de Inuit. In Tentoonstellingscatalogus: Klima en Leven in de Arktis.
Leiden: Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde.
2004 with Cunera Buijs: Die Bekleidung der Inuit Ost-Groenlands. In: Von
Kopf bis Fuß –– Ein Handbuch rund um Koerper, Kleidung und Schmuck
fuer die interkulturelle Unterrichtspraxis. Birgitta Huse (Ed.). Münster:
Waxmann. (Gegenbilder ; 4)
Reviews
2007 Robert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach (eds.): Circumpolar Lives and
Livelihood. A Comparative Ethnoarchaeology of Gender and Subsistence
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006). In: Anthropos, 102,
2007(2). [The review will be published at the end of August 2007.]
2007 Kaiser, U.: 'Die Inuit: Ein Volk der Arktis'. (Zuerich: 2006, Verlag
Pestalozzianum und Voelkerkundemuseum Zuerich). In: Etudes Inuit Studie,
31(1-2).
Exhibitions
Curator of the exhibition Navigating the Northwest Passage - Just Missing
the Ice. Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College, Hanover
NH, May 25 - July 31, 2007.
Curator of the exhibition Thin Ice - Inuit Traditions within a Changing
Environment. Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover NH,
January 27 - May 13, 2007.
Curator of the exhibition Die Dinge des Lebens - Kunst und Kultur der
Inuit. [Things of Life - Art and Culture of the Inuit] Pilatushaus,
Oberammergau, (Germany), Spring 2002.
Languages
German, English, and Dutch fluent in speaking and writing.
Reading and basic conversation in French and Inuktitut.
Knowledge of Chinese, Nganasan, Middle-Egyptian, Spanish and Latin.
Links
Exhibition: Thin Ice - Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment