About
the Press
Mission Statement
The University of Alaska Press is a nonprofit organization that publishes
and distributes nonfiction works about Alaska, the north Pacific Rim,
and circumpolar regions. We publish in an expanding range of subject
areas, including politics and history, Native languages and cultures,
science and natural history, biography and memoir, and original translations.
Our readership includes both the scholarly community and the general
public. The press is guided by an independent editorial board of scholars
and writers with a diverse range of expertise, and is a member of the
Association of American University Presses.
Brian Barnes, Ph.D., is Professor of Biology and Wildlife and Director of the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. His research interests include physiological ecology and endocrinology of hibernating mammals, biological rhythms and sleep, and overwintering biology of animals including insects. http://users.iab.uaf.edu/~brian_barnes/
Joan Braddock, Ph.D., is professor of biology at the Institute of Arctic Biology and Dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Additional information about her and her research is available on her web site at http://mercury.bio.uaf.edu/~joan_braddock/
Jeane Breinig, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Alaska Southeast and Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) in Juneau where she is assisting with Haida language projects. Her teaching areas include American Indian and Alaska Native literatures, American Literature, and American Ethnic literatures. Breinig co-edited Alaska Native Writers, Storytellers & Orators (1999), has contributed to Telling the Stories (2001) and Alaska Native Ways: What the Elders Have Taught Us (2002), and co-produced the video Ga'sa an Xadaas Gu'suu: Kasaan Haida Elders Speak (2002). She is working on a book based on her Kasaan Haida elders oral history and video project.
Aldona Jonaitis, Ph.D., is director of the University of Alaska Museum of the North and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (www.uaf.edu/museum). She has also served as vice president for public programs at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and vice provost for undergraduate studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. A scholar of Northwest Coast Native art, Dr. Jonaitis has written numerous books, including Art of the Northern Tlingit (1989), From the Land of the Totem Poles (1989), Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch (1991), and The Yuquot Whaler's Shrine (1999). She is currently working on a book on totem poles.
Lee Huskey, Ph.D., is a Professor of Economics in the College of Business and Public Policy at the University of Alaska Anchorage. His fields of interest are the economy of Alaska, particularly its rural regions, and economic education. Lee has served as the Interim Director of the Alaska Center for Economic Education. He currently serves on the U.S. Minerals Management Service Scientific Advisory Committee and the board of the Western Regional Science Association. He is currently president-elect of the WRSA. Huskey has published in journals such as Arctic, Growth and Change, American Economist, and Journal of Environmental Management, and he has co-authored two comic books to teach economics to high school students, one of which was translated into Russian.
Bradford Conway Matsen is a writer and former magazine editor and publisher who specializes in books and television documentary scripts on science and natural history topics for general audiences. His most recent book publications include Incredible Ocean Adventures (Enslow Publishing, 2003), The Shape of Life (Monterey Bay Aquarium Press, 2002), and Fishing up North (Alaska Northwest Books, 1998).
Thomas A. Morehouse, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of political science, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage. He is author or editor of numerous books and articles on Alaska politics, economic development, and Alaska Native self-government.
Richard Nelson, Ph.D., a cultural anthropologist and nature writer, was the 1999-2001 writer laureat of Alaska. His books include Making Prayers to the Raven, Hunters of the Northern Ice, Shadow of the Hunder, and The Island Within.
