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\"Michael<\/a>While many Knights experience the Florida summer year round, Michael Koskey, \u201991, experiences the best of both worlds-in Alaska!\u00a0 His work as an assistant professor for the Department of Alaska Native Studies and Rural Development for the University of\u00a0Alaska Fairbanks continues to grow.\u00a0\u00a0Through this work he helps promote personal and community wellbeing among the Alaska Native communities through culture change and other topics.<\/p>\n

He graduated from UCF with a double major in political science and anthropology, with the interest of the former leading to the latter. He got to anthropology through his political sciences studies, especially on international affairs with a focus on development politics. He later obtained a master\u2019s degree in anthropology from Purdue University in 1995 and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2003. With all of this education under his belt, Koskey credits UCF for his experiences, courses, and UCF\u2019s faculty for his success so far.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy time at UCF really helped me in the development of my academic interests in developing nations, rural development, and political economy.\u00a0I continued with these same interests through my Ph.D. in anthropology and I continue to work in issues of sovereignty, self-determination, economic inequality, and post-colonial issues including decolonization,\u201d said Koskey.<\/p>\n

Looking back to his days at UCF, he treasures his experience of participating in the archaeological excavations at the Maya ruins of Caracol in Belize. \u00a0In addition, he cherishes some of his classes in which his professors significantly changed (for the better) the way he came to view our world, its humans and others, and our role of responsibility in participating in it. As a student, he also helped to\u00a0found the Environmental Society and was a member of the UCF Crew Team.<\/p>\n

As an assistant professor, he enjoys teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses, serving on different doctoral and master\u2019s graduate committees, and advising students. He teaches several courses throughout the school year which include Native Cultures of Alaska, and Political Economy of the Circumpolar North. He also works in numerous projects for the university, including his current project Rural Migration in Alaska: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions, which studies the migration trends of Alaska\u2019s indigenous peoples, following periodic movements between village communities and urban areas.<\/p>\n

In the future, Koskey hopes to continue teaching, advising grad students, and working with indigenous peoples and communities.\u00a0 His goal is to encourage community health, cultural and linguistic survival and revitalization, and promoting issues of indigenous sovereignty and self-determination.\u00a0 When asked for a piece of advice for current UCF students, he shared the following note:<\/p>\n

\u201cI know it sounds clich\u00e9, but each of us gets out of a university education what we put into it; in other words, the value of any experience–including education–is largely created by the effort committed.\u00a0 University education really does open doors to unexpected avenues of opportunity, and a committed, positive, selfless attitude is the most effective way to benefit from an education, or any other experience,\u201d said Koskey.<\/p>\n

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