Dr. Karen Everett is a Senior Research Associate with the Canada Research Chair on Comparative Aboriginal Condition at Université Laval (Québec City, Canada). Prior to this, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Université Laval and a Research Scholar with the Arctic Futures Initiative at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria). She completed her PhD at the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies at Trent University (Peterborough, Canada) where she studied border management in the Canadian North. She is also a Fellow of the Polar Research and Policy Initiative (PRPI) and a member of the UArctic Thematic Network on Geopolitics and Security. Her research interests include Arctic security, governance, and economy.