CURRICULUM VITAE

1. Personal Information
• Name: TAKSAMI, NATALIA
• Gender: Female
• Date of writing the CV: 16.06.2018.

2. Date and place of birth, nationality, current residence, contacts

• April, 23 1967 Leningrad, Russian Federation
• Nationality: Finland, Russia, Northern ethnic minority background
• Finland (Äkkiväärä 1 B 10 80140 Joensuu), +358504006274, natalia.taksami@uef.fi

3. Education and degrees awarded:

• PhD, University of Eastern Finland, Human Geography, 27.10.2017.
• PhD (Candidate Degree), St.Petersburg State University, Sociology, 1995 (contact
details: Smolnogo st., 1/3, entrance 9, St.Petersburg 191124).
• Master’s Degree, University of Alaska Fairbanks USA, Anthropology, 1994 (contact
details: 1000 University Ave, Fairbanks, AK 99709).
• Master’s Degree (Specialist), Teachers’ Qualification. History and Social Sciences,
Leningrad State University,1989. Recognition of Teachers’ Qualification is under
recognition by Finnish Ministry of Education

4. Linguistic skills
• English excellent
• mother tongue Russian
• Finnish intermediate (YKI-testi)

5 . Current position:
• Independent researcher, no current funding
Head of Eurasian Studies at VERA Center University of Eastern Finland
www.uef.fi/eurasian-studies

6. Previous work experience

• PhD-researcher, University of Eastern Finland Karelian Institute since 01.08.2012-
30.06.2017. Source of funding Onnenmäki Foundation.
• PhD-researcher, University of Turku European Ethnology Department. 2011-2012.
Source of funding Erasmus Program.
 • Researcher, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of Russian Academy of
Sciences Department of America. 2001-2011.
• Docent (Lecturer), Russian Academy of State Administration at President of Russian
Federation. St.Petersburg, Russia. 2000-2001.
• Researcher, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of Russian Academy of
Sciences, Department of History of Science. 1996-2000.
• Manager, ”Task” Company, scientific and educational tourism. 1995-1996.
• Research Assistant, University of Alaska Fairbanks USA. 1993-1994.
• Teaching Assistant, University of Alaska Fairbanks USA. 1992-1993.
• Research Assistant, Russian Museum of Ethnography, St.Petersburg. 1984-1985.

7. Teaching Experience:
• 2015, CIMO FIRST teaching, invited guest-lecturer at Russian Mineral University
‘Gornyi’, Economical Faculty. Courses: “Environmental and Social Impact assessment”
“Nordic Educational Network” at Economical Faculty.
• 2013-2014 as part of PhD curriculum at University of Eastern Finland teaching part-time
and taking exams of courses 5111513 on Russian History and 5114110 on Border region of
Karelia.
• 2000-2001 full academic year as full-time docent (lecturer) at Academy of State
Administration, St. Petersburg (present http://sziu.ranepa.ru/english). Courses “Political
map of World”, “Ecological Geopolitics” and “Research Ethics”.

8. Other Certificates:
 Certificate of Entrepreneurship Training. ELY Centre of North Karelia. 25.11.2016.

9. Membership in Associations:
 Russian Geographical Society
 Ethnos Ry

10. Research Funding:

• Onnenmäki Foundation (2012-2017)
• Erasmus FIRST (teaching at Russian Mineral University ‘Gornyi’) (2015)
• Erasmus Mundus (2011)
• Japan Foundation (2003)
• Getty Grant Foundation (2000)
• Japan Foundation (1998)
• East-Aleutian Corporation (1993)
• ASPREAL/ACSELS (1993)
• NASA Foundation (1992)
• Ford Foundation (1992)
• Nordic Council (1990)

11. International projects experience:

• National Osaka Museum Japan “Ethnic Ecology in Museum collections” (2003), visiting
researcher
• Chiba University Japan “Ethnic Ecology of North Pacific” (1998), visiting researcher
• University of Buenos-Aires “Theory of Ethnic Ecology” (1996), visiting researcher
 • East Aleutian Borough (Alaska, USA) “Ethno-history of East-Aleutians Islands” (1993),
member of the project
• Saami Institute, Kautikeino, Norway (1990) , visiting researcher

12. Scientific and societal impact of research. Main monographs:

• “Indigenous society in transition in Northwest Russia: the fate of the Vepsians under
modernization”. (PhD monograph). Grano, Pp. 160, 2017.
• “Ecological Aspects of Social Anthropology”. St. Petersburg, 1999.
• “The History and Ethnohistory of the Aleutians East Borough”. Kingstone, Fairbanks,
1999.
• “The Russian Sami”. DIEDUT. 1996. (member of editorial board)
• “Alaska Native population at the edge of the next thousand years”. St.Petersburg: Nauka.
Pp. 418, 2002.
• “Alaska in the system of the statehood”. St.Petersburg: Publishing House of St.Petersburg
State university. 2002. Pp. 176.
Total number of publications 71 (among them 7 monographs).