Timeline of Directors

1976 - 1994

Lee Gorsuch, Director

• Chancellor, UAA, 1994-2004
• President, City University of Seattle, 2006-2013

• 1985 - 1986‌

  Tom Morehouse, Acting Director

  • Professor of political science, ISER, 1968-1994
  • Professor emeritus of political science, 1994-Present

• 1994 - 1997

  Jack Kruse, Director

  • Professor of survey research, ISER, 1976-1997
  • Professor emeritus of public policy, 1997-Present

• 1997 - 2001

  Bill McDiarmid, Director

  • Boeing Professor of Teacher Education, University of Washington, 2001-2008
  • Dean, School of Education, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2009-2016
  • Alumni Distinguished Professor of Education, UNC, Chapel Hill, 2009-Present

• 2001 - 2005

  Scott Goldsmith, Director

  • Professor of economics, ISER, 1976-2012
  • Professor emeritus of economics, ISER, 2013-Present

• 2005 - 2007

  Fran Ulmer, Director

  • Alaska state legislature, 1986-1994
  • Alaska lieutenant governor, 1994-2002
  • Chancellor, UAA, 2007-2011
  • Chair, Arctic Research Commission, 2011-2019

2007 - 2009

Steve Colt, Director

• Professor of economics, ISER, 1984-2016
• Professor emeritus of economics, ISER, 2016-Present
• Professor of economics, Alaska Pacific University, 2016-Present

• 2010 - 2012

  Heather Hudson, Director

  • Professor of public policy, ISER, 2010-2012
  • ISER affiliate faculty, 2013-Present

• 2013 - 2016

  Gunnar Knapp, Director

  • Professor of economics, ISER, 1981-2016
  • Professor emeritus of economics, 2016-Present

• 2016 - 2021

  Ralph Townsend, Director

  • Professor of economics, ISER, 2016-2021
  • Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Winona State University, 2010-2016
  • Chief economist, New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries, 2007-2010
  • Professor of Economics, University of Maine, 1994-2006

• 2021 - 2026

  Diane Hirshberg, Director

  • Professor of education policy, ISER, 2003-Present
  • Vice President Academic, University of the Arctic, 2021-Present