IASSA Secretariat
International Arctic Social Sciences Association

www.iassa.org
 

IASSA was founded in 1990 in Fairbanks, Alaska, at a meeting held in conjunction with the 7th Inuit Studies Conference. The creation of IASSA follows the suggestion, made at the Conference on Coordination of Research in the Arctic held in Leningrad in 1988, to establish an international association to represent Arctic social scientists.

IASSA's president from 2008 to 2011 was Dr Joan Nymand Larsen, senior scientist at the Stefansson Arctic Institute where the secretariat was located. The 7^th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences was held in Akureyri, Iceland, 22-26 June 2011 and there professor Gail Fondahl, University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC), Prince George, Canada, was elected new IASSA president for the term 2011-2014.