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Anna Mossolova

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Email anna.mossolova@khm.uio.no
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Visiting address Frederiks gate 2 0164 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 6762 St. Olavs plass 0130 Oslo

Career track

2026-... Researcher and WP leader in MORE project, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway

2022-2025 Marie-Curie postdoctoral research fellow, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway

2022-... Honorary Research Fellow, Archaeology Department, University of Aberdeen, UK

2013-2020 Ph.D. in Culture Studies (Anthropology), School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia

2015-2016 (9 months) Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher, Anthropology Department & Alaska Native Studies Program, University of Alaska Anchorage, US

2014-2015 (5 months) Visiting PhD student in Arctic Domus project, Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, UK

 

Academic interests: Arctic anthropology, Indigenous studies, decolonising methodologies, repatriation/rematriation, provenance research, community-based and collaborative research practices

Alongside her academic publications (below), audiovisual outcomes of Mossolova's research can be viewed on her YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@annamossolova3548

Tags: Ethnography, Archaeology, Arctic, Material culture, Heritage, Social Anthropology

Publications

Mossolova, A., Ween, G.B., Hætta J.A. 2026. ‘Unwriting by return: reassembling Jáhkoš-Lásse’s collection in Guovdageaidnu’. In Anderson, D. G. & Vider, J. (eds). Unwritten Indigenous Arctic Infrastructures. London: Routledge. ISBN: 9781041339090.

Hillerdal, C., Knecht, R., Jones, W., Church, L. M., Mossolova, A., Lim, J., Watterson, A., Gleason, S., & Strehlau, H. (2025). In It for the Long Haul: Community-Based Archaeology and Heritage in Quinhagak, Alaska. In C. D. Dillian, K. S. Clary, & C. A. Bello (Eds.), Collaborative and Community-Engaged Archaeology (pp. 46–66). University Press of Florida. http://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.35615684.6

Hillerdal, Charlotta; Mossolova, Anna; Knecht, Rick (2023). Honouring ancestry, celebrating presence — the grand opening of the Nunalleq Culture and Archaeology Center. Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage. DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2023.2228175. 

Mossolova, Anna; Michael, Drew (2021). Yup'ik Masks in the Precontact Past and the Contested Present. World Archaeology, 52 (5), 667−684. DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2021.1993989.

Mossolova, Anna (2020). Innovation and Healing in Contemporary Yup’ik Mask Making. Anthropologica, 62 (2), 365−379. 10.3138/anth-2018-0099.

Mossolova, Anna; Knecht, Rick; Masson-McLean, Edouard; Houmard, Claire (2019). Hunted and Honoured: Animal Representations in Precontact Masks from the Nunalleq Site, Southwest Alaska. Études/Inuit/Studies, 43 (1-2), 107−136. DOI: 10.7202/1071942ar.

Mossolova, Anna; Knecht, Rick (2019). Bridging Past and Present: A Study of Precontact Yup'ik Masks from the Nunalleq Site, Alaska. Arctic Anthropology, 56 (1), 18−38. DOI: 10.3368/aa.56.1.18.

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