Project Workers

Project Manager
Eeva-Kristiina Harlin (M.A. Archaeology) is 33 years old and from Helsinki. She currently lives in Karigasniemi. She graduated from the University of Helsinki in 2004 as an archaeologist and as an osteoarchaeologist from Stockholm University. Harlin has worked in several projects as a bones researcher and on archaeological projects around Finland, e.g., Enontekiö and Utsjoki, for the National Board of Antiquities. She has studied the Sámi culture in depth through her minor of Sámi Studies. In addition, she also wrote her archaeological thesis, which was entitled "Enontekiö Marketplace: life at the marketplace based on archaeological research" on the Sámi. Since 2005 she has been writing her dissertation for the Giellagas Institute at the University of Oulu on the livelihoods and connections in Enontekiö and Utsjoki during the 17th–19th centuries. She is particularly interested in the moral and ethic viewpoint in her research and the opportunities afforded by studying animal bones when interpreting the archaeological material of the Sámi for a historical period. Eeva-Kristiina works at the Sámi Museum Siida, in Inari.

Contact information:
Eeva-Kristiina Harlin
Saamelaismuseo Siida
GSM +358 400 328133
eeva-kristiina.harlin@samimuseum.fi

Team members
Since October, the project has had three team members working on it at the Sámi Museum Siida (Kati Vuontisjärvi), the Ájtte Museum in Sweden (Sunna Kuoljok) and the Varanger Sámi Museum in Norway (Sissel Mikkelsen).

The project worker for Sweden, Sunna Kuoljok (M.A.), serves as a curator for Ájtte, the Swedish Mountain and Sami Museum in Jokkmokk, Sweden. She mainly works on taking care of the museum’s cultural-historical collections. Sunna was born in Gällivare and currently lives in Jokkmokk. She is an ethnologist, who studied at the Universities of Uppsala and Umeå.

Sunna Kuoljok
Ájtte, the Swedish Mountain and Sami Museum
Tel.: + (46) 706417012
E-mail: sunna.kuoljok@ajtte.com

Project worker Sissel Ann Mikkelsen is from Hamarøy, in the county of Nordland in Norway. She has a B.A. in Archaeology from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Tromsø. She has worked in the Environmental and Cultural Protection Department at the Sámi Parliament of Norway and in Sámi museums in Norway and Sweden. The inventories she has made on the relics of Sweden’s inland Sámi has provided her with abundant information on the cultural environment and relics of the Sámi. The preservation and availability of Sámi relics are a matter close to her heart. The last project she worked on was the Saami University College’s project "Samiske veivisere" (Sámi Guides), where Sámi youth travelled to schools to talk about Sámi culture and history.

Sissel Ann Mikkelsen
Varanger Samiske Museum
Tel.: +47 48 19 89 29
E-mail: sam@varjjat.org

Kati Vuontisjärvi (M.A.) is a recent graduate of the University of Oulu, who currently lives in Inari. Majoring in general history, Kati also had numerous minors, amongst which the most important are information studies, art history and Finnish and Scandinavian history. She wrote her thesis on the portrayal of Indians in captivity memoirs that were published in the 19th century. Kati is interested in the history of indigenous peoples and particularly with the way in which they are portrayed in the media. Her family is from Vuontisjärvi in Enontekiö, Finland. Kati works at Siida, the Sámi Museum and the Northern Lapland Nature Centre.

Kati Vuontisjärvi
Siida
Tel.: + 358 40 541 8575
E-mail: kati.vuontisjärvi@samimuseum.fi