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Curriculum Vitae
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M.A. Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle. 2017.
B.A. International Relations, Scandinavian Studies, MNSU Mankato. 2015.
Ellen Ahlness was a PhD student in the Department of Political Science and a graduate fellow in the Center for Environmental Politics, Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race, and the International Security Colloquium. She studied comparative politics, international relations, and environmental politics. Specific research interests include geopolitics and environmental security in the Arctic, Scandinavian politics, and indigenous politics. Her research explored circumpolar understandings of 'security,' particularly among states, NGOs, and indigenous nations, as well as the interactions between an opening Arctic, perceptions of vulnerability, and state militarization policy.
Ellen is an alum of Høyskolen i Telemark in Bø, Norway. She was a U.S. Department of State intern for the Office of International Security Operations, and enjoys the music of Gabrielle and the musical Hamilton.
Research
Selected Research
- McFarland. “Lord of the Rings: Environmentalism and Essentialism in Middle Earth and the Western World.” Feeding Cultural Fears: Essays on Films During a Time of Transition, 2021.
- Logos Verlag Berlin. “Nunatta Qitornai: A Party Analysis of the Rhetoric and Future of Greenlandic Separatism.” Separatism and Regionalism in 21st Century Europe, 2021.
- Ahlness, Ellen. “Learning from Calamity: A Report of the RemoteLearning Task Force for Washington State (with Technology Alliance Remote Learning Task Force Consortium).” 2021.
- Ahlness, Ellen. “Uncertainty, Maskirovka, and Militarism: Russian Perspectives and Amphibious Assault Potentiality in the Arctic’s Near Future.” On Contested Shores, Edited by Timothy Heck and B.A. Friedman, Marine Corps University Press, 2020
- Palgrave. “Battling the Past: Intersectional Challenges to Indigenous Tourism Employment in the Nordic States.” Tourism Employment in Nordic Countries: Trends, Practices, and Opportunities, 2020
- Ahlness, Ellen. “The Evolving Political Engagement of Permanent Participants: Senior Arctic Officials as Sea Ice PolicyAudiences.” Arctic and International Relations, vol.7, no.1, 2020, pp. 84-90.
- Ahlness, Ellen. “Arctic Ice in Cross-Disciplinary Undergraduate Education: Experiences Across Natural Science, Social, Science, International Policy, and Public Writing.” EGU General Assembly, 2020.
- Ahlness, Ellen. “The Legacy of the Ting: Viking Justice, Egalitarianism, and Modern Scandinavian Regional Governance.” World History Connected, vol. 17, no.1, 2020.
- Ahlness, Ellen. “From the Second World to Global South? Narratives of Tajikistan in Western Media.” Deconstructing Images of the Global South through Media Representations and Communication, 2019.
- Ahlness, Ellen. “Leadership and Neurobiological Brain Development.” Considering Leadership Anew, 2019
- Ahlness, Ellen. “The Spirit on (Hidden) Homelessness.” Capillaries Journal, no.5. vol.1, 2019, pp. 20-26.
- Ahlness, Ellen. “IncompatibleFutures: Frontier Nostalgia and Southern Discourses of the Arctic.” Arctic Yearbook, vol. 1, 2019, pp. 1-20.
- Ahlness, Ellen. “Movements in Marginalized Spaces: How Native Media Gives Momentum to #MeToo in Indigenous Communities.” Misogyny and Media, Lexington Books, 2018.
- Ahlness, Ellen. “The ‘Duel’ Level DomesticLegal Situation of Russia’s Peoples of the Far North.” Current Developments in Arctic Law, vol.6, 2018, pp.25-32.
- Ahlness, Ellen. “Decolonizing Gray Spaces: Storytelling and Arts as Political Activism Among Sámi Herders.” Ecologia Politica, vol. 57, no.1, 2018, pp. 43-50.