Tim Frandy
Assistant Professor
Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies
Faculty of Arts
Research Themes: Language, Sustainability and Transnationalism
Tim Frandy is an Assistant Professor of Nordic Studies, a public folklorist, an environmental humanist, and a scholar of Sámi and Indigenous Studies. Originally from Anishinaabe Aki on the south shore of Lake Superior, Frandy is part of both the Sámi and Finnish descendant communities of North America.
Frandy’s research involves Indigenous expressive culture, environmental folklore, sustainability, belief, cultural worldview, knowledge traditions, and social power. They are translator and editor of Inari Sámi Folklore: Stories from Aanaar (2019), the first polyvocal translation of Sámi oral tradition into English. Frandy and B. Marcus Cederström are co-editors of a collection on public humanities, Culture Work: Folklore for the Public Good (2022), listed as one of Smithsonian Magazine’s Best Scholarly Books of 2022. Frandy is currently working on a monograph on Sámi environmentalisms and knowledge traditions.
Frandy teaches courses on Sámi History and Culture, Indigenous Arctic Art and Activism, Supernatural Folklore of Northern Europe, Epic Poetry of Northern Europe, along with Finnish and North Sámi language offerings.
