Dmitry V Arzyutov Author & Editor

Franz Boas (1858–1942) was a professor of anthropology at Columbia University and a public intellectual and advocate for social justice. He is the author of The Mind of Primitive Man, Primitive Art, Anthropology and Modern Life, and Race, Language, and Culture, among other books. Dmitry V. Arzyutov is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at the Ohio State University and an honorary research fellow at the University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom). He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters in English, Russian, French, German, Finnish, and Swedish, dedicated to Siberian and Arctic Indigenous ethnohistory, environmental history, and the history of anthropology. Sergei A. Kan is a professor of anthropology at Dartmouth College. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including A Maverick Boasian: The Life and Work of Alexander A. Goldenweiser (Nebraska, 2023), Sharing Our Knowledge: The Tlingit and Their Coastal Neighbors (Nebraska, 2015), and Lev Shternberg: Anthropologist, Russian Socialist, Jewish Activist (Nebraska, 2009). Laura Siragusa is an assistant professor of teaching in the Department of Linguistics and in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at the Ohio State University. She is the author of Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia. Alexander Pershai is an associate director of equity at the University of Waterloo (Canada). Pershai has published a book in Russian on gender stratification in idiomatic expressions.