Description
Author: Robert P. Wheelersburg
Publisher: Springer
Published: 03/18/2023
Pages: 149
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.37d
ISBN13: 9783030899509
ISBN10: 3030899500
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Criminology
- Science | Earth Sciences | Geography
- Political Science | Public Policy | Social Policy
About the Author
With nearly five decades of research and military experience in the Arctic, Robert Wheelersburg is uniquely prepared to discuss security policy in the Nordic and North Atlantic Regions. He holds a Ph.D. from Brown University in Anthropology and Circumpolar Studies and has conducted fieldwork among Saami reindeer herders in Sweden and Russia (Kola Peninsula) for over twenty years, along with fieldwork and archival work in Denmark, Iceland, and Finland for nearly thirty years. Dr. Wheelersburg received three Fulbright Scholarships; two to Umea University's Arctic and Saami Studies Departments and one to the University of Iceland's Centre for Arctic Policy Studies. He has obtained several grants to conduct his research including funding from such organizations as the U.S. National Science Foundation's Arctic Social Science Program and the American Scandinavian Foundation, publishing several articles in journals like Arctic Anthropology, Polar Geography, Arctic, and Polar Record. Dr. Wheelersburg also served as a U.S. Army officer assigned to NATO as an intelligence, civil military operations, and disaster assistance liaison officer for twenty five years, performing duty in northern Germany, Iceland (as a member of the Icelandic Defence Force), and as an exchange officer with the Swedish Rangers.