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Espen Morrison Latimer

Student

ela115@post.uit.no

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Sarah Carina Dürlinger

Sarah Carina Dürlinger

Student

sdu018@post.uit.no

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Anna Ziya-Geerling

https://www.hi.no/hi/om-oss/ansatte/thomas-bohn

Anna Ziya-Geerling

Student

age030@post.uit.no

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Anna Ziya Geerling is a Dutch multimedia artist and young researcher, who explores the plurality of cultural relationships with the more-than-human world (‘nature’), to address the socio-cultural and economic roots of the ecological crises from a decolonial lens. For her MA Phil. in Indigenous Studies, she writes her thesis on ‘Weaving Socio-Ecological Narratives & Pedagogies: Conservation & Biocultural Diversity in Nagaland’ (Delivery May ’23), exploring spiritually informed storytelling as complementary/counter-narratives to Western science-based environmental education. As a multimedia artist, she seeks to spur people into re-enchantment and re-membrance of their entanglement with ‘the natural world,’ using photography, text/poetry, video, sound, ceramics, installations and performance. She contributed to various political and scientific meetings (State visit of the Dutch and Norwegian Royals as a youth representative of arts & culture, 2021; Barents Regional Council meeting, 2021; Dutch Arctic circle meeting 2021; Arctic Frontiers Conference & Arctic Frontiers Youth forum, Tromsø 2021; ARTIC Climate Change Symposium by the Norwegian Embassy of the Hague, Amsterdam 2022), and activist community events (Amsterdam Climate Week 2022; Klimakunst Festival Tromsø, 2020) with exhibitions, visual work or as presenting panellist, to speak to the role of the arts and Indigenous knowledge to address the interlinkage of social injustices & the ecological crises. Her recent exhibition project ‘Fluid Futures, Tidal Clocks: The Intertidal Zone’ (2021~) addresses the climate crisis through an immersive portrait of water that places the human back into the hydrological cycle and points to the fluidity of borders between water and land, asking questions such as: what can nation-state borders learn from the rivers in which they were drawn?

Thomas Bøhn

Professor

Thomas Bøhn

Professor

thomas.boehn@hi.no

Institute for Marine Research, Norway

Thomas Bohn's research aims to understand the ecological impact of aquaculture on wild salmonids. A key focus is how salmon lice may affect Atlantic salmon, sea trout and arctic charr. He also has a great interest in modelling, evolution, biodiversity, ecological interactions, invasion biology and risk assessment. He has a history of 15 years of research on the impact of modern biotechnologies, especially of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), on experimental model systems and real food webs. With cooperating partners, he has worked with multiple model systems: from microorganisms to Daphnia magna to insects and mammals, both in the laboratory and the field. A particular focus has been the food quality and ecotoxicity of GM plants (e.g. Bt-maize and Roundup Ready soy) in a feeding model using the water flea Daphnia magna, including in combination with chemical stressors (herbicides).

Marília da Silva Lima

PhD Candidate

Marília da Silva Lima

PhD Candidate

lima.smarilia@gmail.com

UNICAMP Universidade Estadual de Campinas

https://highlandinstitute.org/

Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the State University of Campinas. Her research focuses on the ethnography intersections between extractivism/mining, development policies, and black territorialities on an island in northeastern Brazil. Among her interests are the developmental policies implemented in Brazil from the 1960s to the 1980s, the description of long term historical processes and the perpetuation of racially structured transnational economic practices.

Rodrigo Charafeddine Bulamah

Postdoctoral Fellow

Rodrigo Charafeddine Bulamah

Postdoctoral Fellow

rbulamah@unifesp.br

University of Campinas, Brasil

Rodrigo C. Bulamah is a postdoctoral fellow at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) and an associated researcher at the Center for Migration Studies (CEMI) at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). He earned his doctoral degree in Social Anthropology from a dual-degree program between École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and UNICAMP. He works on the interface between anthropology and history, focussing on themes such as ruins, colonial legacies, maroon ecologies, and human-animal relations. His main field of research is the Caribbean, and his current research explores the technopolitical and affective life of wood charcoal in Haiti and its connections to regenerative ecological practices. In 2023, he will join the Department of Anthropology at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) as an Associate Professor of Anthropological Theory.

Lanuakum Aier

Operations Manager

Lanuakum Aier

Operations Manager

The Highland Institute

Diogo Pereira de Souza

Diogo Pereira de Souza

Student

d258519@dac.unicamp.br

UNICAMP Universidade Estadual de Campinas

https://highlandinstitute.org

Jonathon Keats

Research Fellow

Jonathon Keats

Research Fellow

jonathonkeats@gmail.com

The Highland Institute

Jonathon Keats is an artist, writer and experimental philosopher based in the United States and Europe. His conceptually-driven transdisciplinary projects explore all aspects of society, adapting methods from the sciences and the humanities. He is the author of six books on subjects ranging from science and technology to art and design – most recently You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future, published by Oxford University Press. He is currently a fellow at the Berggruen Institute, a research associate at the University of Arizona’s Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, a visiting scholar at San Jose State University’s CADRE Laboratory for New Media, a research fellow at the Highland Institute and the Long Now Foundation, consulting philosopher at Earth Law Center, and an artist-in-residence at Hyundai and the SETI Institute. He co-directs the Intersubjective Ecology Laboratory and the Consortium for Climate-Adapted Cultural Heritage.

Cornelia Dahle

Cornelia Dahle

Student

majak1789@uit.no

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

https://www.iitg.ac.in/hss/st_full_details.php?mail=ekZmV2t0cEFKcXlVSnRXckxQVzFLQT09

Cornelia Dahle is a student in Tromsø university UIT taking her bachelor’s in social anthropology. She uses visual means and writing when out on the field, as well as her gut feeling leading her down the uncommon paths. Spending almost the same amount of time in water as on land, she combines her interest in ocean conservation to her work and studies.

Abhimanyu Chettri

PhD Researcher

Abhimanyu Chettri

PhD Researcher

IIT Guwahati

Abhimanyu Chettri is a social science nomad with strong interests in Himalayan Studies, Climate Change, Conservation, Livelihood issues, Human-Wildlife interaction, and questions around land and development. He looks forward to blending these interests and addressing some of the issues both at the level of theories and practices.

Thor Eirik Eriksen

Eriksen, Thor Eirik

Associate Professor

thor.e.eriksen@uit.no

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Thea Sofie Rindsem

https://doctorsforyou.org/dfy-governing-body.php

Thea Sofie Rindsem

Student

tri048@post.uit.no

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Nidhi Singh MD

Member, Governing Body

Nidhi Singh MD

Member, Governing Body

Doctors For You

Antonio Guerreiro

https://unicamp.academia.edu/AntonioGuerreiroJr

Antonio Guerreiro

Associate Professor

State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)

Antonio Guerreiro is an Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Campinas (Unicamp). He has been carrying out research, cultural documentation, and outreach projects with the Kalapalo, a karib-speaking people of the Upper Xingu (Southern Amazon, Brazil). His main research interests are politics, kinship, ritual action, verbal arts, and territoriality in the Amazon. His current research focuses on the transformation of fishing practices among the Kalapalo and their effects on social and territorial dynamics.

Jasywera

Jasywera

Student

k182978@dac.unicamp.br

UNICAMP Universidade Estadual de Campinas

With the ancestral wisdom of the Kaiowá people, Keila Martines Fernandes is known as Jasywera, the 'brightness of the moon' in her first language, Guarani. Keila is a student of Literary Studies at Unicamp, where her research delves into indigenous literature. In addition to her academic work, Keila is a versatile creative force: screenwriter, filmmaker and cultural producer. Keila interweaves poetry, film and music to shed light on rich indigenous themes.

Ronja Gérard

Ronja Gérard

Student

ronja.gerard@gmail.com

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

catriona_child@yahoo.co.uk

Tor Gisle Lorentzen

Senior Adviser

Lorentzen, Tor Gisle

Senior Adviser

+4777646924

tor.g.lorentzen@uit.no

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Catriona Child

Director

Catriona Child

Director

The Highland Institute, India

Catriona Child is currently the Acting Director of the Highland Institute and Project Coordinator for the current Earthkeepers: Canada-IDRC Myanmar Research Fellowship programme. Holding a Master’s degree in Ecology from the University College of North Wales, she is particularly interested in ethnobotany and climate change studies. In addition, she has socio-historical expertise on the Zeme Naga communities in Assam, Manipur, and Nagaland states in Northeast India. This has led her to look at linkages between colonial and postcolonial social histories in the North East and to support efforts among indigenous communities and scholars to recover and preserve vernacular archives. During earlier involvement with The Highland Institute, she was a coordinator for a project on the provision of surgical care for rural patients in North East India for the Global Health Research Group. Catriona is also an experienced editor who regularly works for the Himalaya journal and the Highlander Press.

Rajat Jain MD

President

Rajat Jain MD

President

Doctors For You

https://doctorsforyou.org/index.php

Dr. Rajat Jain is the serving president of Doctors For You. He completed his MBBS and MD from Maulana Azad Medical College and LNJP Hospital in New Delhi. He also served as Vice President for Doctors For You for 7 years. (2010-2017). Dr. Rajat Jain has been honoured by Ex-President of India Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam Azad with Golden Ruby Award for the crucial work done for the benefit of the communities on the ground on behalf of, “Doctors for You”. He was also recognized by BIG FM radio channel as “BIG HERO” for the work done for underprivileged children in Delhi in 2015.

Chantal Medaets

https://unicamp.academia.edu/ChantalMedaets

Chantal Medaets

Associate Professor

State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)

Chantal Medaets is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the School of Education at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), where she coordinates the Anthropology and Education Research Center (Ceape). She holds a Master's Degree in Education (2009) and a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology (2015) both from Paris Descartes University. She has carried out research on indigenous and river dweller childhoods and forms of socialization in the Lower Tapajós region in the Brazilian Amazon, analyzing parenting styles, informal education (out of school transmission and learning practices) and its connections to the school. In her current research, she deals with different aspects of the indigenous presence in Higher Education in Brazil, combining ethnographic fieldwork at Unicamp with the analysis of intercultural educational politics for Higher Education at a national level.

Veronica Monachini de Carvalho

PhD Researcher

Veronica Monachini de Carvalho

PhD Researcher

State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)

Veronica Monachini de Carvalho is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Campinas. She has a BA in Social Sciences (2014) and a Master in Social Anthropology (2021) from the same University. Was a Visiting Scholar at the New School of Social Research in 2020. Her research interests are indigenous ethnology, ways of knowledge, childhood and lands studies. Since 2014, she’s been carrying out research, outreach, and filmmaking projects with the Kalapalo people, Karib-speakers from the Upper Xingu (Southern Amazon).

Nicollas Pinheiro De Lima Santos

Master's Student in Social Anthropology

Nicollas Pinheiro De Lima Santos

Master's Student in Social Anthropology

nicollas.pinheiro@usp.br

Universidade de São Paulo

Nicollas Pinheiro is a master's student in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo, where he is a member of CHAMA – Collective of Anthropology, Environment, and Biotechnodiversity. Since 2021, he has been conducting research on fishing in Northeastern mangroves, focusing on the relationships between scientists, political actors, and afro-american fishermen. More recently, he has developed an ethnography on sururu (Mytella falcata) fishing in the Mundaú lagoon in Maceió (AL). Drawing from approaches in the Anthropology of Technique and the Anthropology of Life, Nicollas has been engaged in debates about sociobiodiversity, traditional communities and environmental justice.

Fatma Matar

Fatma Matar

Student

famat3183@uit.no

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Professor and Founding Dean

Piyush Roy

Piyush Roy

Professor and Founding Dean

RV University, India

https://rvu.edu.in/prof-dr-piyush-roy/

Dr. Piyush Roy is an Indian National Film Award winning critic-columnist, and an international author, curator, filmmaker and professor in film, media and aesthetic studies. Former editor of popular film magazines, Stardust and StarWeek, he has worked at senior reporting positions in The Indian Expressand Hindustan Times, and has been published in The Times of India, The Asian Age, Society, Screen, The New Indian Express and The Hindu, authoring over 1000 media publications and five books. Presently, Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, RV University, Bengaluru, his latest book, Appreciating Melodrama: Theory and Practice in Indian Cinema and Television (Bloomsbury 2022) argues for reviewing Indian cinema using Indian aesthetic philosophies, and latest documentary, The Monarch of the Blue Mountain (2022), explores universal appeals of Jagannath consciousness. A recipient of Sir William Darling Memorial Prize, he is an MA in International Journalism (Cardiff University), MSc in Film Studies and PhD in South Asian Studies (University of Edinburgh). A jury member at various international film festivals and advisory board member of the Global University Film Awards (Hong Kong), he’s Founder-Festival Director of Edinburgh Festival of Indian Films & Documentaries (2016-17).

Luiz Felipe Medina Hancio

Luiz Felipe Medina Hancio

Student

l260709@dac.unicamp.br

UNICAMP Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Luiz Medina's research investigates how Indigenous, Quilombola, and Caiçara communities in Brazil’s Ribeira Valley engage with electric utility services amidst broader energy transition efforts. By combining participatory research methods with the Capability Approach, the study aims to understand energy justice through the lens of inclusion, rights, and human dignity. As both a scholar and a Guarani community member, Medina positions this work as a bridge between Indigenous and academic knowledge, contributing actionable insights for sustainable and equitable energy policy in the Global South.

Pedro Guilherme Simões Costa

Pedro Guilherme Simões Costa

Student

pedrogcosta12@gmail.com

UNICAMP Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Miguel da Cruz

Miguel da Cruz

Student

dcar.miguel@gmail.com

UNICAMP Universidade Estadual de Campinas

https://www.ifch.unicamp.br/ifch/colaboradores/dantropo/641/Omar-Ribeiro-Thomaz

Miguel da Cruz Almeida Rocha’s research, Mwen pa yon esklav: Plants and Revolutionary Tradition in Haiti, explores how rural Haitian communities in the Milot region cultivate coffee and cacao as part of a living revolutionary tradition rooted in post-slavery autonomy and counter-plantation practices. Combining ethnographic fieldwork with historical analysis, the study traces how agricultural practices, plant knowledge, and peasant uprisings (dechoukay) express a vision of freedom tied to land, ecological diversity, and resistance to state and elite control. Drawing on Haitian Creole expressions and peasant memory, Rocha positions cultivated plants not only as economic resources, but as agents of historical continuity, ecological care, and political imagination in the aftermath of colonialism.

Omar Ribeiro Thomaz

Professor

Omar Ribeiro Thomaz

Professor

University of Campinas, Brasil

Omar Ribeiro Thomaz (B.A. in Art History, University of Barcelona, 1989; PhD in Social Anthropology, University of São Paulo, 1997). Professor at State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Dr. Thomaz teaches both at the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology and at the Graduate Program in History. His work draws on anthropology of war and conflict and social history of Africa and the Caribbean. He conducted fieldwork and archival research in Mozambique, Uganda and Haiti. Dr. Thomaz was awarded the Humboldt Foundation fellowship for a post-doctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (2007) and his book Ecos do Atlântico Sul: representações sobre o terceiro império português (“Echoes of the South Atlantic: Representations of Portugal’s Third Empire”) received the award for Best Work in Social Sciences by the National Association for Social Sciences in 2004 (ANPOCS).

Michael T. Heneise (Project manager)

https://www.ifch.unicamp.br/ifch/colaboradores/dantropo/45919/Joana-Cabral-de-Oliveira

Heneise, Michael T.

Associate Professor

+4777623366

michael.t.heneise@uit.no

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Joana Cabral de Oliveira

Professor

Joana Cabral de Oliveira

Professor

University of Campinas, Brasil

Joana Cabral de Oliveira is a professor at the State University of Campinas, Department of Anthropology. Formed in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo (USP) in 2003. Masters in Anthropology in 2006, PhD in Anthropology in 2012 and a postdoctoral degree from the Institute of Biosciences, all from the University of São Paulo (USP). She held a postdoctoral internship at the University of Oxford (UK). She is a collaborating researcher at the Center for Amerindian Studies (USP), coordinator of the Laboratory for Post-Disciplinary Studies (USP) and member of the Center for Studies and Research in Ethnology (Unicamp). She focuses her research in the area of indigenous ethnology and anthropology of science, traveling through the dialogues between anthropology and biology.

Edward Moon-Little

Research Fellow

Edward Moon-Little

Research Fellow

The Highland Institute

https://highlandinstitute.org/

Edward Moon-Little has a broad interest in anthropology, exhibitions, and museums. He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge and an MSc from the University of Oxford. He has contributed to exhibitions in Germany, India, and the UK. Recent publications include contributions to The Routledge Companion to Northeast India and Vernacular Politics in Northeast India. Edward has a broad interest in India. It ranges from his Anglo-Indian heritage in Bangalore to research in Central and Northeast India. Along the way, many communities shared their lives with him, for which, he remains deeply grateful. Beyond his academic work, Edward has a keen interest in emerging digital technologies and digital designs.

Ruokuonuo Yhome

Research Director

Ruokuonuo Yhome

Research Director

The Highland Institute

https://highlandinstitute.org/

Geerththana Rajaratnam

Geerththana Rajaratnam

Student

geraj2948@uit.no

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

José Maurício Arruti

José Maurício Arruti

Associate Professor

jmarruti@unicamp.br

University of Campinas, Brasil

José Maurício Arruti is a historian and anthropologist, Associate Professor at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and co-founder of the Afro-research nucleus of the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP). He has conducted anthropological research and social projects with indigenous peoples and rural black communities in Brazil and Colombia. His topics of interest are Territory, Knowledge, and Ethnicity. He is currently developing two research projects. One of them is about indigenous mobility to big cities and their access to universities. The other research is about local knowledge and practices, production of law, and access to justice for traditional black communities in Brazil and Colombia. He has published ‘Mocambo – Antropologia e História do Processo de Formação Quilombola [Mocambo – Anthropology and History of the Quilombola Building] (ANPOCS award, 2006) and ‘Panorama Quilombola – Mídia, Educação e Acesso à Justiça’ [Quilombola Perspective – Media, Education and Access to Justice] (2022).

Meera Baindur