Barry Scott Zellen

Barry Scott Zellen, PhD is a Research Scholar in the Department of Geography at the University of Connecticut (UConn) and a Senior Fellow (Arctic Security) at the Institute of the North (IoN). He is the author, most recently, of Arctic Exceptionalism: Cooperation in a Contested World (Lynne Rienner Books, 2024) He has lived in Inuvik, NWT, Canada (1990-93), Yellowknife, NWT, Canada (1994-98), Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada (1988-89 and 1998-99), and Akureyri, Iceland (2020), and during his 11 years living in the Arctic worked for the Inuvialuit and Gwich’in of the Mackenzie Delta/Western Beaufort Sea region, the Dene and Metis of the Mackenzie Valley, and the Yukon First Nations.