Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology

Wanni W. Anderson, Emeritus Adjunct Research Professor of Anthropology and Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, is a specialist on folklore and oral history of the North. Focusing on problems of modernization, changing settlement patterns, and women’s roles and networks, her specialties also include interethnic relations, and the use of oral history and folklore in teaching Inupiaq in northwestern Alaska.