Job description

I'm a Doctoral Research Fellow in Art History in the Arctic Voices Project at UiT. Funded by the Research Council of Norway, this archival project examines the visual and textual account of Indigenous people living in the Arctic in Frederick Whymper’s (1838-1901) works. His sketches, drawings, gouache and watercolor paintings, as well as his wood engravings are a result of his exploration travels in Alaska, British Columbia, and Siberia. In addition to the visual material he produced, his travel account Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, formerly Russian America–now ceded to the United States–and in various other parts of the North Pacific (1868) is one of the key sources.