Anna Andersen is an Eastern (Kildin) Sámi historian and researcher in the project “INDHOME: Indigenous Homemaking as Survivance” at Nord University. She holds a PhD in History and an MA in Indigenous Studies from UiT – The Arctic University of Norway.

From 2022 to 2024, she was a visiting researcher at the University of Greenland, where she worked closely with Greenlandic Inuit on experiences of forced resettlement and colonial child removal. Her research in Nuuk forms part of a broader comparative study of relocations among Indigenous peoples in the Arctic, combining archival work with oral histories and community-based collaboration.

Since 2010, she has conducted empirical research on oral life histories of Indigenous peoples, primarily Sámi communities in the Nordic countries and Russia, with a focus on enforced resettlement and residential schooling.

In 2015, she was a visiting researcher at the University of Montana and with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation in the United States.

In her conference presentation at the Nord University Sámi and Indigenous Conference 2026, she will share insights from her comparative empirical work on Sámi and Inuit experiences of enforced resettlement in Sápmi and Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland).