John Ziker, Author at Social Science Space

John Ziker

John P. Ziker is a professor of anthropology at Boise State University. He began field research in northern Siberia in 1992. His book, Peoples of the Tundra: Northern Siberians in the Post-Communist Transition, summarizes that work in the Taimyr Autonomous Region. He is a co-PI on a study of how social networks affect adoption of evidence-based instructional practices among faculty in STEM departments, and most recently he started a project on interactions of climate change and industrial development in the Arctic.

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