Inuit and Whalers on Baffin Island Through German Eyes - Wilhelm Weike's Arctic Journal and Letters (1883-84)

Ludger Müller-Wille is a retired professor of Geography/Northern Studies at McGill University and has studied ethnicity and human-environmental relations in the arctic and subarctic among Sámi and Finns (Sápmi/Finland), Inuit, Dene and Naskapi (Canada). Since the mid 60s, he has conducted research in cultural anthropology, geography and toponymy in subarctic Fenno-Scandia (Sápmi, Finland and Norway) with Sámi and Finns and in subarctic and arctic Canada (Nunavut, Nunavik, Northern Saskatchewan and Québec) with Inuit, Dene, Naskapi and Cree, supported by German, Finnish, Canadian and European Union funding institutions.
Other projects concerned the history of arctic anthropology and geography focussing on Franz Boas and his contributions Bernd Gieseking is a cabaret artist and author of children's radio plays and theatre plays. He has taught courses in mdeia studies. He has hosted theatre, radio and TV shows, mainly solo. Since 1994, he has had a regular show, The Annual Satirical Review, and others. William Barr is a research fellow at the Arctic Institute of North America.
A glacial geomorphologist by training, his major research focus is the history of exploration in the Arctic, a subject on which he has published extensively. In May 2006, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Canadian Historical Association for his contributions to the historiography of the Canadian North.