Jaanika Vider

Jaanika Vider is a Lecturer in Anthropology at Tallinn University and currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on museum anthropology, material culture, and Arctic/Siberian studies. She examines ethnographic representations particularly through 19th-century collections from Russian-America and Siberia, acquired via Baltic-German explorers.

• Bachelor of Arts: Archaeology and Anthropology (University of Oxford)
• Master of Arts: Visual Anthropology (University of Oxford)
• Doctor of Philosophy: Social Anthropology (University of Oxford)

Her doctoral research analyzed British anthropology through the lens of Maria Czaplicka’s 1914 Siberian expedition, highlighting intersections of colonialism and anthropological practice. Current projects emphasize museums as social institutions and the politics of cultural representation in ethnographic collections.