Past Projects
Conference, Quarterly and Annual Reports
• Conference Report: Interim Governments: Institutional Bridges to Peace and Democracy? Report author; written for Professors Jessica Piombo and Karen Guttieri, NPS (January 2006)
• Conference Report: Terrorism Financing & State Responses in Comparative Perspective. Report author; written for Professors Jeanne Giraldo and Harold Trinkunas, NPS (January 2005)
• Conference Report: Dissuasion in U.S. Defense Strategy. Co-written with Professor Peter R. Lavoy and Research Associate Christopher Clary, NPS(November 2004)
• Conference Report: Capabilities-Based Defense Planning: Building a 21st Century Force. Co-written with Professor James Russell and Research Assistant Lashley Pulsipher, NPS (November 2004)
• Monthly Reports to the Board of Directors of Northern Native Broadcasting, Yukon, 1998-1999. Report(s) author.
• Annual Report and Quarterly Reports to the Board of Directors of the Native Communications Society, 1995-1998. Report(s) author.
• Tetlit Gwich’in Council Annual Report, 1993. Report author.
Book Editing Services
• Innovation, Transformation, and War: Counterinsurgency Operations in Anbar and Ninewa Provinces, Iraq, 2005-2007, Stanford University Press, 2010 (Copy editing, formatting.)
• Female Suicide Terrorism: A Comparative Study of Three Conflict Regions, Master's Thesis, Department of National Security Affairs, December 2009. (Copy editing, formatting.)
• Peoples of the Earth: Ethnonationalism, Democracy, and the Indigenous Challenge in “Latin” America, Lexington Books, 2009 (Indexing, formatting.)
• Innovation in the Crucible of War: The U.S. Counterinsurgency Campaign in Iraq, 2005-2007, Doctoral Thesis, Department of War Studies, King’s College, University of London, October, 2009 (Copy editing and formatting.)
• Globalization and WMD Proliferation: Terrorism, Transnational Networks and International Security, Routledge, December 2007. (Copy editing.)
Grants, Fellowships and Editorial Projects
2020s:
• 2023: $4,200 from the 2022-23 Project on America’s New Arctic Policy and Canada’s New Arctic Policy to author a 30,000 word report on North America’s New Arctic Policies.
• 2022: $40,000 from Class of 1965 Alumni Endowment at the United States Coast Guard Academy to serve as the rotating Class of 1965 Arctic Scholar from January 1-April 15, 2022.
• 2021: $80,000 from Class of 1965 Alumni Endowment at the United States Coast Guard Academy to serve as the rotating Class of 1965 Arctic Scholar from January 1-December 31, 2021.
• 2020: $79,000 from Class of 1965 Alumni Endowment at the United States Coast Guard Academy to serve as the rotating Class of 1965 Arctic Scholar from January 1-December 31, 2020.
• 2020: $24,000 from the Fulbright Foundation to serve as a visiting Fulbright Scholar, Polar Law Centre, University of Akureyri
2010s:
• 2019: $78,000 from Class of 1965 Alumni Endowment at the United States Coast Guard Academy to serve as the rotating Class of 1965 Arctic Scholar from January 1-December 31, 2019.
• 2017: €32,400 from the Kone Foundation for research on “Tribal Buffer Zones and Regional Stability from the Polar to Oceanic Region: Understanding the Interface between Indigenous Homelands and Modern States, and the Foundations for Stable Borderlands”
• 2016: €32,400 from the Kone Foundation for research on “Tribal Buffer Zones and Regional Stability from the Polar to Oceanic Region: Understanding the Interface between Indigenous Homelands and Modern States”
• 2012: $25,380 from the Program for Culture and Conflict Studies (CCS) at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) for categorizing and displaying data on the CCS website; editing various papers, including draft articles and reports; maintaining these data on the CCS website; updating the Index, Archive and Research pages; soliciting editing, and publishing articles in the Culture & Conflict Review; overseeing and editing the CCS book series; and assisting with various web, IT and editorial issues and projects.
• 2011: $20,820 from the Program for Culture and Conflict Studies (CCS) at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) for categorizing and displaying data on the CCS website; editing various papers, including draft articles and reports; maintaining these data on the CCS website; updating the Index, Archive and Research pages; soliciting editing, and publishing articles in the Culture & Conflict Review; overseeing and editing the CCS book series; and assisting with various web, IT and editorial issues and projects.
• 2010: $24,000 to maintain, update, and post articles, course curricula, and departmental information to the websites of the Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC), Department of National Security Affairs (NSA), and Regional Security Education Program (RSEP) of the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), and to edit the quarterly e-journal, Strategic Insights.
2000s:
• 2009: $40,950 to maintain, update, and post articles, course curricula, and departmental information to the websites of the Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC), Department of National Security Affairs (NSA), and Regional Security Education Program (RSEP) of the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), and to edit the quarterly e-journal, Strategic Insights.
• 2008: $18,200.00 to maintain and enhance website materials in support of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Regional Security Education Program (RSEP) including collecting, editing, and developing new content in support of RSEP on the website of the NPS Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC) and National Security Affairs Department (NSA); to enhance reach-back capabilities of the site to better serve RSEP audiences; and to maintain up-to-date recommended online reading lists for various world regions and thematic issues for the Regional Security Education Program (RSEP), to be posted on the CCC website.
• 2007: $18,175 from the National Security Affairs Department (NSA) and the Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC) at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) to maintain and enhance website materials in support of the National Security Affairs (NSA) Department and the Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC) website including collecting, editing, and developing new content in support of the CCC website and maintaining online journal Strategic Insights (SIs).
• 2006: $30,000 from the Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC) at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) to assemble, produce, and disseminate research articles on the Naval Postgraduate School’s National Security Affairs Department and Center for Contemporary Conflict’s website; update and maintain current records on faculty biographies and NSA course descriptions; and update and maintain current online records for NSA’s Regional Security Education Program (RSEP) on the CCC/NSA website.
• 2005: $121,000 from Blanc + Otus Public Relations to author and edit the daily HP Competitive Intelligence in Action report.
• 2005: $24,000 from the IBM Applications on Demand (AoD) Group to provide technical editing service, primarily for software manuals.
• 2005: $10,000 to assemble, produce, and disseminate research articles on U.S.-China Strategic Dialogue; edit conference-related papers, working papers, and research materials following the CCC workshop on U.S.-China Strategic Dialogue; and maintain and produce web content on research topics supporting research on U.S.-China Strategic Dialogue.
• 2005: $6,500 to write an 8,000-word conference report and to prepare a transcript of the proceedings of the upcoming Center for Homeland Defense and Security workshop on Terrorism Finance and State Responses in Comparative Perspective.
• 2004: $70,000 from Hill and Knowlton Public Relations to author and edit the daily HP Competitive Intelligence in Action report.
• 2004: $51,000 from the Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC) at the Naval Postgraduate School (2004-05) to maintain and enhance website materials in support of the NPS Regional Security Education Program (RSEP) including collecting, editing, and developing new content in support of RSEP on the website of the NPS Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC) and National Security Affairs Department (NSA).
• 2004: $35,000 from the Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC) at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) to manage the assembly, production and dissemination of research articles on Biological Weapons Threats to Homeland Security; and to write a conference report and edit conference papers for the CCC workshop on Dissuasion in the U.S. Defense Strategy.
1990s:
• 1999: $52,000 from Aboriginal Business Canada to produce a video profiling Aboriginal youth entrepreneurs in the Yukon and BC.
• 1999: $30,000 from the Tourism Marketing Fund to produce a television series pilot episode of Yukon Xtreme, an outdoor adventure show profiling extreme sports in the Yukon wilderness.
• 1999: $10,280 from the Yukon Territorial Government to provide media services for Team Yukon on the 1999 Team Canada trade mission to Osaka and Tokyo, Japan.
• 1999: $9,600 from the Trade and Investment Fund to represent NNBY at the Banff Television Festival and the Assembly of First Nation/Nexus aboriginal business trade show.
• 1999: $5,000 from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation to develop a community-based video project profiling women survivors of the residential school system.
• 1999: $1,200 from the Trade and Investment Fund to represent NNBY at the Prime Time television trade show in Ottawa.
• 1998: $218,000 from Telefilm Canada to produce the 1998 season of The No-Name Youth Show television series.
• 1998: $40,000 from the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) to produce the Dene Weekly Perspective television news show.
• 1998: $25,000 from the GNWT to support Aboriginal language broadcasting on CKLB-FM radio.
• 1998: $7,500 from the Canada Council of the Arts to support publication of an aboriginal arts section in the Cabin Fever newspaper.
• 1997: $60,000 from the GNWT to introduce a television training program for Aboriginal youth, who contributed local segments to The No-Name Youth Show television series.
• 1997: $12,000 from the NWT Language Enhancement Program to produce a six-month Aboriginal language lesson series on CKLB-FM radio.
• 1996: $201,000 from Human Resources Development Canada to introduce a television training program for Aboriginal youth, who contributed local segments to The No-Name Youth Show.
• 1996: $12,000 from the GNWT’s Aboriginal Language Literacy Program to produce Aboriginal language lessons on CKLB-FM radio.
• 1996: $7,000 from the GNWT’s Language Enhancement Fund to produce a segment of the Spirit of Denendeh documentary television series called Teepee Talks, presenting stories told by Dene elders inside a traditional teepee around a campfire.
• 1996: $3,000 from the Cultural Enhancement Program to produce two television episodes for CNN International on northern issues.
• 1995: $252,000 from NorthwesTel to contribute to the production of the Dene Weekly Perspective television news show.
• 1995: $51,000 from the GNWT’s Department of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources to produce two one-hour television documentaries on saving energy in the home.
• 1995: $40,000 from the GNWT’s Cultural Enhancement Program to produce Aboriginal language lessons for broadcast on Television Northern Canada.
• 1995: $10,000 from the GNWT’s Aboriginal Language Literacy Program to produce Aboriginal language lessons on CKLB-FM radio.
• 1995: $5,000 from the GNWT’s Oral Traditions Program to record and broadcast traditional Dene love stories and songs.
• 1994: $28,000 from the NYU Center for War, Peace, and the News Media for research on post-Cold War news coverage of war and peace issues.
• 1993: $3,000 contract from the Tetlit Gwich’in Council of Fort McPherson, NWT to write their annual report, which involved spending one month in the community interviewing residents, elders, and tribal leaders, producing in a lengthy (60 pp) report on the first year of the Tetlit Gwich’in land-claim implementation.
• 1992: $45,000 from the GNWT’s Language Enhancement Program to introduce a new bilingual (Inuvialuktun/English) format for Tusaayaksat newspaper, becoming the only newspaper in Western Canada to publish in an aboriginal language.
• 1992: $43,000 research grant from the Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security (CIIPS) for “Decision-Making Structures in Land Claims Settlement Areas: Implications for Sovereignty and Security,” to better understand the dynamics of decision-making inside land claims settlement areas; to determine how co-management and devolution affect sovereignty-assertion and national security in the Arctic; and to engage in a comparative analysis of the Alaska, Inuvialuit and Inuit land claims settlements and their respective decision-making structures, using a case-study review in three settlement areas with additional comparison of James Bay and Northern Quebec settlements.
• 1992: $7,000 from the Inuvialuit/Government of Canada Joint Secretariat (a land claims implementation body) to research, write, design, and publish a pictorial history of the Inuvialuit bowhead harvest of 1991.
• 1991: $23,000 pilot project from the Language Enhancement Program to develop a bilingual format for the Inuvialuit newspaper, Tusaayaksat, and to train news translators fluent in Inuvialuktun dialects to speedily translate news stories for biweekly publication.
1980s:
• 1987: Institute on Global Conflict & Cooperation (1987-88): $12,000 predoctoral fellowship to conduct research on the strategic and theoretical foundations of nuclear strategy.
• 1986: Institute on Global Conflict & Cooperation (1986-87): $10,000 predoctoral fellowship to conduct research on the strategic and theoretical foundations of nuclear strategy (deferred).
• 1985: MacArthur Foundation (1985-86): $9,600 predoctoral international security fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation.
• 1983: Program on Nonviolent Sanctions in Conflict and Defense, Harvard University (1983): Research Assistant for Gene Sharp, the pioneering and innovative theorist of nonviolent strategic change, during the summer of 1983.
• 1983: Study of War Project (1983): Participated in a summer-long independent study under the tutelage of social psychologist and conflict resolution pioneer Herbert C. Kelman on the origins of war, utilizing Quincy Wright's classic tome as its primary text.
• 1983: Department of Government, Harvard University (1983): Research Assistant to professors John D. (Jack) Montgomery and Kent Calder at the International Dimensions of Land Reform project.
• 1982: Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Harvard University (1982): Research Assistant to professors Sallie Baliunas and John Raymond at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
• 1981: Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Harvard University (1981-82): Manager of the Michael Telescope Observatory, Harvard Science Center.
• Conference Report: Interim Governments: Institutional Bridges to Peace and Democracy? Report author; written for Professors Jessica Piombo and Karen Guttieri, NPS (January 2006)
• Conference Report: Terrorism Financing & State Responses in Comparative Perspective. Report author; written for Professors Jeanne Giraldo and Harold Trinkunas, NPS (January 2005)
• Conference Report: Dissuasion in U.S. Defense Strategy. Co-written with Professor Peter R. Lavoy and Research Associate Christopher Clary, NPS(November 2004)
• Conference Report: Capabilities-Based Defense Planning: Building a 21st Century Force. Co-written with Professor James Russell and Research Assistant Lashley Pulsipher, NPS (November 2004)
• Monthly Reports to the Board of Directors of Northern Native Broadcasting, Yukon, 1998-1999. Report(s) author.
• Annual Report and Quarterly Reports to the Board of Directors of the Native Communications Society, 1995-1998. Report(s) author.
• Tetlit Gwich’in Council Annual Report, 1993. Report author.
Book Editing Services
• Innovation, Transformation, and War: Counterinsurgency Operations in Anbar and Ninewa Provinces, Iraq, 2005-2007, Stanford University Press, 2010 (Copy editing, formatting.)
• Female Suicide Terrorism: A Comparative Study of Three Conflict Regions, Master's Thesis, Department of National Security Affairs, December 2009. (Copy editing, formatting.)
• Peoples of the Earth: Ethnonationalism, Democracy, and the Indigenous Challenge in “Latin” America, Lexington Books, 2009 (Indexing, formatting.)
• Innovation in the Crucible of War: The U.S. Counterinsurgency Campaign in Iraq, 2005-2007, Doctoral Thesis, Department of War Studies, King’s College, University of London, October, 2009 (Copy editing and formatting.)
• Globalization and WMD Proliferation: Terrorism, Transnational Networks and International Security, Routledge, December 2007. (Copy editing.)
Grants, Fellowships and Editorial Projects
2020s:
• 2023: $4,200 from the 2022-23 Project on America’s New Arctic Policy and Canada’s New Arctic Policy to author a 30,000 word report on North America’s New Arctic Policies.
• 2022: $40,000 from Class of 1965 Alumni Endowment at the United States Coast Guard Academy to serve as the rotating Class of 1965 Arctic Scholar from January 1-April 15, 2022.
• 2021: $80,000 from Class of 1965 Alumni Endowment at the United States Coast Guard Academy to serve as the rotating Class of 1965 Arctic Scholar from January 1-December 31, 2021.
• 2020: $79,000 from Class of 1965 Alumni Endowment at the United States Coast Guard Academy to serve as the rotating Class of 1965 Arctic Scholar from January 1-December 31, 2020.
• 2020: $24,000 from the Fulbright Foundation to serve as a visiting Fulbright Scholar, Polar Law Centre, University of Akureyri
2010s:
• 2019: $78,000 from Class of 1965 Alumni Endowment at the United States Coast Guard Academy to serve as the rotating Class of 1965 Arctic Scholar from January 1-December 31, 2019.
• 2017: €32,400 from the Kone Foundation for research on “Tribal Buffer Zones and Regional Stability from the Polar to Oceanic Region: Understanding the Interface between Indigenous Homelands and Modern States, and the Foundations for Stable Borderlands”
• 2016: €32,400 from the Kone Foundation for research on “Tribal Buffer Zones and Regional Stability from the Polar to Oceanic Region: Understanding the Interface between Indigenous Homelands and Modern States”
• 2012: $25,380 from the Program for Culture and Conflict Studies (CCS) at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) for categorizing and displaying data on the CCS website; editing various papers, including draft articles and reports; maintaining these data on the CCS website; updating the Index, Archive and Research pages; soliciting editing, and publishing articles in the Culture & Conflict Review; overseeing and editing the CCS book series; and assisting with various web, IT and editorial issues and projects.
• 2011: $20,820 from the Program for Culture and Conflict Studies (CCS) at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) for categorizing and displaying data on the CCS website; editing various papers, including draft articles and reports; maintaining these data on the CCS website; updating the Index, Archive and Research pages; soliciting editing, and publishing articles in the Culture & Conflict Review; overseeing and editing the CCS book series; and assisting with various web, IT and editorial issues and projects.
• 2010: $24,000 to maintain, update, and post articles, course curricula, and departmental information to the websites of the Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC), Department of National Security Affairs (NSA), and Regional Security Education Program (RSEP) of the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), and to edit the quarterly e-journal, Strategic Insights.
2000s:
• 2009: $40,950 to maintain, update, and post articles, course curricula, and departmental information to the websites of the Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC), Department of National Security Affairs (NSA), and Regional Security Education Program (RSEP) of the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), and to edit the quarterly e-journal, Strategic Insights.
• 2008: $18,200.00 to maintain and enhance website materials in support of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Regional Security Education Program (RSEP) including collecting, editing, and developing new content in support of RSEP on the website of the NPS Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC) and National Security Affairs Department (NSA); to enhance reach-back capabilities of the site to better serve RSEP audiences; and to maintain up-to-date recommended online reading lists for various world regions and thematic issues for the Regional Security Education Program (RSEP), to be posted on the CCC website.
• 2007: $18,175 from the National Security Affairs Department (NSA) and the Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC) at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) to maintain and enhance website materials in support of the National Security Affairs (NSA) Department and the Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC) website including collecting, editing, and developing new content in support of the CCC website and maintaining online journal Strategic Insights (SIs).
• 2006: $30,000 from the Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC) at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) to assemble, produce, and disseminate research articles on the Naval Postgraduate School’s National Security Affairs Department and Center for Contemporary Conflict’s website; update and maintain current records on faculty biographies and NSA course descriptions; and update and maintain current online records for NSA’s Regional Security Education Program (RSEP) on the CCC/NSA website.
• 2005: $121,000 from Blanc + Otus Public Relations to author and edit the daily HP Competitive Intelligence in Action report.
• 2005: $24,000 from the IBM Applications on Demand (AoD) Group to provide technical editing service, primarily for software manuals.
• 2005: $10,000 to assemble, produce, and disseminate research articles on U.S.-China Strategic Dialogue; edit conference-related papers, working papers, and research materials following the CCC workshop on U.S.-China Strategic Dialogue; and maintain and produce web content on research topics supporting research on U.S.-China Strategic Dialogue.
• 2005: $6,500 to write an 8,000-word conference report and to prepare a transcript of the proceedings of the upcoming Center for Homeland Defense and Security workshop on Terrorism Finance and State Responses in Comparative Perspective.
• 2004: $70,000 from Hill and Knowlton Public Relations to author and edit the daily HP Competitive Intelligence in Action report.
• 2004: $51,000 from the Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC) at the Naval Postgraduate School (2004-05) to maintain and enhance website materials in support of the NPS Regional Security Education Program (RSEP) including collecting, editing, and developing new content in support of RSEP on the website of the NPS Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC) and National Security Affairs Department (NSA).
• 2004: $35,000 from the Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC) at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) to manage the assembly, production and dissemination of research articles on Biological Weapons Threats to Homeland Security; and to write a conference report and edit conference papers for the CCC workshop on Dissuasion in the U.S. Defense Strategy.
1990s:
• 1999: $52,000 from Aboriginal Business Canada to produce a video profiling Aboriginal youth entrepreneurs in the Yukon and BC.
• 1999: $30,000 from the Tourism Marketing Fund to produce a television series pilot episode of Yukon Xtreme, an outdoor adventure show profiling extreme sports in the Yukon wilderness.
• 1999: $10,280 from the Yukon Territorial Government to provide media services for Team Yukon on the 1999 Team Canada trade mission to Osaka and Tokyo, Japan.
• 1999: $9,600 from the Trade and Investment Fund to represent NNBY at the Banff Television Festival and the Assembly of First Nation/Nexus aboriginal business trade show.
• 1999: $5,000 from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation to develop a community-based video project profiling women survivors of the residential school system.
• 1999: $1,200 from the Trade and Investment Fund to represent NNBY at the Prime Time television trade show in Ottawa.
• 1998: $218,000 from Telefilm Canada to produce the 1998 season of The No-Name Youth Show television series.
• 1998: $40,000 from the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) to produce the Dene Weekly Perspective television news show.
• 1998: $25,000 from the GNWT to support Aboriginal language broadcasting on CKLB-FM radio.
• 1998: $7,500 from the Canada Council of the Arts to support publication of an aboriginal arts section in the Cabin Fever newspaper.
• 1997: $60,000 from the GNWT to introduce a television training program for Aboriginal youth, who contributed local segments to The No-Name Youth Show television series.
• 1997: $12,000 from the NWT Language Enhancement Program to produce a six-month Aboriginal language lesson series on CKLB-FM radio.
• 1996: $201,000 from Human Resources Development Canada to introduce a television training program for Aboriginal youth, who contributed local segments to The No-Name Youth Show.
• 1996: $12,000 from the GNWT’s Aboriginal Language Literacy Program to produce Aboriginal language lessons on CKLB-FM radio.
• 1996: $7,000 from the GNWT’s Language Enhancement Fund to produce a segment of the Spirit of Denendeh documentary television series called Teepee Talks, presenting stories told by Dene elders inside a traditional teepee around a campfire.
• 1996: $3,000 from the Cultural Enhancement Program to produce two television episodes for CNN International on northern issues.
• 1995: $252,000 from NorthwesTel to contribute to the production of the Dene Weekly Perspective television news show.
• 1995: $51,000 from the GNWT’s Department of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources to produce two one-hour television documentaries on saving energy in the home.
• 1995: $40,000 from the GNWT’s Cultural Enhancement Program to produce Aboriginal language lessons for broadcast on Television Northern Canada.
• 1995: $10,000 from the GNWT’s Aboriginal Language Literacy Program to produce Aboriginal language lessons on CKLB-FM radio.
• 1995: $5,000 from the GNWT’s Oral Traditions Program to record and broadcast traditional Dene love stories and songs.
• 1994: $28,000 from the NYU Center for War, Peace, and the News Media for research on post-Cold War news coverage of war and peace issues.
• 1993: $3,000 contract from the Tetlit Gwich’in Council of Fort McPherson, NWT to write their annual report, which involved spending one month in the community interviewing residents, elders, and tribal leaders, producing in a lengthy (60 pp) report on the first year of the Tetlit Gwich’in land-claim implementation.
• 1992: $45,000 from the GNWT’s Language Enhancement Program to introduce a new bilingual (Inuvialuktun/English) format for Tusaayaksat newspaper, becoming the only newspaper in Western Canada to publish in an aboriginal language.
• 1992: $43,000 research grant from the Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security (CIIPS) for “Decision-Making Structures in Land Claims Settlement Areas: Implications for Sovereignty and Security,” to better understand the dynamics of decision-making inside land claims settlement areas; to determine how co-management and devolution affect sovereignty-assertion and national security in the Arctic; and to engage in a comparative analysis of the Alaska, Inuvialuit and Inuit land claims settlements and their respective decision-making structures, using a case-study review in three settlement areas with additional comparison of James Bay and Northern Quebec settlements.
• 1992: $7,000 from the Inuvialuit/Government of Canada Joint Secretariat (a land claims implementation body) to research, write, design, and publish a pictorial history of the Inuvialuit bowhead harvest of 1991.
• 1991: $23,000 pilot project from the Language Enhancement Program to develop a bilingual format for the Inuvialuit newspaper, Tusaayaksat, and to train news translators fluent in Inuvialuktun dialects to speedily translate news stories for biweekly publication.
1980s:
• 1987: Institute on Global Conflict & Cooperation (1987-88): $12,000 predoctoral fellowship to conduct research on the strategic and theoretical foundations of nuclear strategy.
• 1986: Institute on Global Conflict & Cooperation (1986-87): $10,000 predoctoral fellowship to conduct research on the strategic and theoretical foundations of nuclear strategy (deferred).
• 1985: MacArthur Foundation (1985-86): $9,600 predoctoral international security fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation.
• 1983: Program on Nonviolent Sanctions in Conflict and Defense, Harvard University (1983): Research Assistant for Gene Sharp, the pioneering and innovative theorist of nonviolent strategic change, during the summer of 1983.
• 1983: Study of War Project (1983): Participated in a summer-long independent study under the tutelage of social psychologist and conflict resolution pioneer Herbert C. Kelman on the origins of war, utilizing Quincy Wright's classic tome as its primary text.
• 1983: Department of Government, Harvard University (1983): Research Assistant to professors John D. (Jack) Montgomery and Kent Calder at the International Dimensions of Land Reform project.
• 1982: Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Harvard University (1982): Research Assistant to professors Sallie Baliunas and John Raymond at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
• 1981: Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Harvard University (1981-82): Manager of the Michael Telescope Observatory, Harvard Science Center.
