Research Output per year
Personal profile
Description of research and teaching
My research interests comprise questions related to the revival of heritage languages, language ecology, verbal art and its relations to non-human animals and other beings, domestication, and health.
Since 2008 I have been working with Veps, a Finno-Ugric minority, in northwestern Russia. While my initial interest regarded the promotion of Vepsian heritage language, I later augmented my focus to verbal art and healing practices and human-animals relations as expressed in language.
In 2015 I also began working with Saami in the Kola peninsula, Russia. Here I investigate domestication, reindeer herding practices, and health.
At the moment (2018), I am working on three main projects:
1. Links between (indigenous) ways of speaking and environmental change
2. Language responsibility
3. Indigenous conceptualization of sustainability
In 2018, my colleague Dr. Ferguson (Univ. Nevada, Reno) and I established an EASA network on Linguistic Anthropology (ELAN) to further develop this discipline within the European context.
Education/Academic qualification
Anthropology, PhD, University of Aberdeen
2009 → 2012
Anthropology, MRes, University of Aberdeen
2008 → 2009
Foreign Languages and Literatures, 'Laurea' (BA, MA equivalent), Univ Pisa, University of Pisa
1993 → 1999
Keywords
- 6160 Other humanities
- Indigenous studies
- 5143 Social anthropology
- Linguistic Anthropology
- Environmental Anthropology
- Medical anthropology
- 6121 Languages
- Vepsian
- Russian
International and National Collaboration
Publications and projects within past five years.
Publications 2010 2022
Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia
Siragusa, L., 23 Oct 2017, New York and London: Routledge. 246 p. (Routledge Studies in Linguisitc Anthropology; vol. 1)Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review
Franz Boas and Russian Anthropology
Arzyutov, D. (ed.), Kan, S. A. (ed.) & Siragusa, L. (ed.), 2022, (In preparation) University of Nebraska Press. (Franz Boas Papers)Research output: Book/Report › Anthology or special issue › Scientific › peer-review
Introduction: Indigenous Conceptualizations of Sustainability
Virtanen, P. K., Siragusa, L. & Guttorm, H., 2021, (In preparation) In : Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Introduction. The Materiality of Indigenous Language: Co-Creating Landscapes
Siragusa, L. & Virtanen, P. K., 2021, (In preparation) In : Multilingua.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Nothing goes to waste: sustainable practices of re-use in the Russian North
Siragusa, L. & Arzyutov, D., 2021, (In preparation) In : Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Projects 2012 2021
HUH HELSINKI HUMANITIES PROGRAMME: Indigenous Cultures and Languages
01/09/2017 → 31/08/2020
Project: Research project
HU FUTURE DEVELOPMENT FUND: The 'Great White North'
Hoegaerts, J., Siragusa, L., Virtanen, P. K., Stadius, P., Liimatainen, T. & Peterson, E.
01/01/2019 → 31/12/2019
Project: Research project
EASA: Linguistic Anthropology Network
Siragusa, L. & Ferguson, J.
01/11/2018 → …
Project: Other project
ESTONIAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND RESEARCH: IUT34-32--Cultural heritage as a socio-cultural resource and contested field
Kuutma, K. & Siragusa, L.
01/01/2014 → 01/01/2020
Project: Research project
KONE SÄÄTIÖ: A tangible heritage: Vepsian language and non-human agencies to co-construct a northern environment
Siragusa, L. & Zhukova, O.
01/09/2019 → 31/08/2021
Project: Research project
Prizes
CASS (College of Arts and Social Sciences), Graduate School, University of Aberdeen, College office, Powis Gate, Aberdeen
Laura Siragusa (Recipient), Sep 2009
Prize: Prizes and awards
CASS (College of Arts and Social Sciences), Graduate School, University of Aberdeen, College office, Powis Gate, Aberdeen
Laura Siragusa (Recipient), Sep 2008
Prize: Prizes and awards
ERC funded project Arctic Domus, University of Aberdeen
Laura Siragusa (Recipient), Jan 2015
Prize: Prizes and awards
ERMOS (Estonian Research Mobility Scheme) grant financed with the support of FP7 Marie Curie COFUND the “People” Programme, University of Tartu
Laura Siragusa (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Prizes and awards
Activities 2009 2019
Co-constructing environments and sharing responsibility with nonhuman beings for its future developments in Vepsian ways of speaking
Laura Siragusa (Speaker)30 May 2019 → 1 Jun 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Assistant to help with Symposium on Year of Indigenous Languages
Laura Siragusa (Participant)May 2019 → Nov 2019
Activity: Other activity types › Prizes and awards - Prizes and awards
‘Tea’ and ‘mayo’: vignettes from my field work in Northwest Russia
Laura Siragusa (Speaker)26 Aug 2019 → 27 Aug 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
The "Great White North?"
Josephine Hoegaerts (Scientific Committee Chair), Laura Siragusa (Scientific Committee Member), Tuire K Liimatainen (Member of organizing committee), Elizabeth Peterson (Scientific Committee Member), Peter Gustav Stadius (Scientific Committee Member), Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen (Scientific Committee Member)27 Aug 2019 → 28 Aug 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Collaborative methods: searching Vepsian verbal charms
Laura Siragusa (Speaker), Olga Zhukova (Speaker)24 Oct 2019 → 25 Oct 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Press / Media
Interview for Alaskan radio station Nordic Native News
03/02/2016
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
Interview on my work on secrecy for Kodima
01/01/2016
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
Presentation of my PhD dissertation at Paginklub
29/04/2013
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
Participation in a Karelian TV reportage on the work at Paginklub at the Centre for National Cultures in Petrozavodsk
01/10/2012
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media