Leiden University Postdoctoral Fellowship
A twelve-month IIAS fellowship at Leiden University (October 2025 to September 2026) on the flow of fish skin material culture among Arctic and Subarctic Native communities between Eurasia and the Americas, from the 18th century to today. The research compares the fish skin practices of the Inuit, Yup'ik, Alutiiq and Athabascan of Alaska, the Nivkh and Nanai of Siberia, the Ainu, the Hezhe, the Saami and Icelanders, and traces how colonisation reshaped them.