seit 2012 Professor für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie an der Universität Wien, Vorstand des Instituts für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Website an der KSA

Wissenschaftliche Karriere:

• seit 2016: Director, Austrian Polar Research Institute
• seit 2013: Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF)
• since 2012: Professor, Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, Universität Wien
• 2007-2012: Director, Alaska EPSCoR
• 2002-2012: Professor, Department of Anthropology, UAF
• 1997-2002: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UAF
• 1992-1997: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UAF

Letzte synergistische Aktivitäten:

• 2017-2019: Scientific Advisory Board Member, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
• 2015-2020: Projektleiter “Configurations of Remoteness: Entanglement of Humans and Transport Infrastructures”, Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
• 2015-2017: Sprecher der Arbeitsgruppe "Fachgeschichte" der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
• 2014-Present: Founding Board Member der International Society for Hunter Gatherer Research
• 2014-2017: Scientific Advisory Board Member, Mistra Arctic Sustainable Development: New Governance for Sustainable Development in the European Arctic
• 2012-2019: Steering Committee Member, Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic (ReSDA), a Canadian Major Collaborative Research Initiative

Wichtigste Publikationen:

• P. Schweitzer und O. Povoroznyuk. 2019. “A Right to Remoteness? A Missing Bridge and Articulations of Indigeneity along an East Siberian Railroad”. Social Anthropology 27(2): 236–252.
• P. Schweitzer, F. Stammler, C. Ebsen, A. Ivanova und I. Litvina. 2018. “Social Impacts of Non-Renewable Resource Development on Indigenous Communities in Alaska, Greenland, and Russia,” in: Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic, C. Southcott, F. Abele, D. Natcher, und B. Parlee, Hrsg. New York: Routledge, S. 42-64.
• P. Schweitzer, O. Povoroznyuk und S. Schiesser. 2017. “Beyond Wilderness: Toward an Anthropology of Infrastructure and the Built Environment in the Russian North”. The Polar Journal 7(1): 58-85.
• A. Petrov, S. BurnSilver, F. Chapin III, G. Fondahl, J. Graybill, K. Keil, A. Nilsson, R. Riedlsperger, und P. Schweitzer. 2017. Arctic Sustainability Research: Past, Present and Future. London: Routledge.
• E. Marino, P. Schweitzer. 2016. “Speaking Again of Climate Change: An Analysis of Climate Change Discourses in Northwestern Alaska,” in: Anthropology and Climate Change: From Actions to Transformations. Zweite Auflage. S.A. Crate and M. Nuttall, Hrsg. S. 200-209. New York: Routledge.