From 8th January, 2007 Fae Korsmo will be staff associate to the director of the Office of Polar Programmes at the US National Science Foundation. She was previously Staff Associate, Office of the Director, Integrative Activities, National Science Foundation. She was Program Director, Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), between September 2001 and December 2003. There she managed large, multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional research infrastructure projects; communicated NSF priorities and procedures to state, local, and university officials; initiated strategic planning processes among EPSCoR principal investigators; advised university faculty and students in EPSCoR state and territorial jurisdictions.

She was Program Director, Arctic Social Sciences and Science Education Liaison, Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, between October 1997 and September 2001.

She was a professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks, between 1996-1997.

Education:
Federal Executive Institute: Leadership for a Democratic Society, February 2005
Ph.D., University of New Mexico, Political Science, 1992.
M.A., George Washington University, International Affairs, 1984.
B.A., University of Washington, Comparative Literature, 1980.

Publications:

"The Early Cold War and U.S. Arctic Research." Forthcoming in Extremes: Oceanography's Adventures at the Poles, ed. Helen M. Rozwadowski. Watson Publishing, Science History Publications, USA. "Marine Science and Technology: History, Politics, and People." Forthcoming in Minerva. "Shaping Up Planet Earth: The International Geophysical Year (1957-1958) and Communicating Science Though Print and Film Media." Science Communication 26, 2 (December 2004): 162-187. "From Interwar to Cold War: Selling Field Science in the United States, 1920s through 1950s," with Michael P. Sfraga. Earth Sciences History, 22,1 (2003): 55-78. "Research: Action and Reaction in the North American North," with Amanda Graham. Arctic 55, 4 (December 2002): 319-328. "The International Polar Years: A History." The Nansen Icebreaker, 12 (Fall 2001): 6. "Local Participation and Ecosystem Management," with Jonathan Rosenberg. Journal of Environmental Management, 62,3 (2001): 283-300. "What Has Gone Before: Native Property and Jurisdiction in the Courts." Native Studies Review 13, 2 (2001): 25-45. "Science on the Edge: Arctic and Antarctic Discoveries," with Guy Guthridge, in The National Science Foundation: America?s Investment in the Future (Washington, DC: NSF, 2001), 132-145. "Churchill Peaks and the Politics of Naming," with Michael P. Sfraga, Polar Record, 36 (Spring 2000): 131-138. "Native Sovereignty." In Alaska Public Policy Issues: Background and Perspectives, ed. Clive Thomas (Juneau: Denali Press, 1999), 263-274. "Resonance and Reduction of Indigenous Claims in Western Legal Thought." In Sacred Lands, ed. Richard Riewe and Jill Oakes (Edmonton: Canadian Circumpolar Institute, 1998). "Searching for Self: The Politics of Nationalism and Ethnicity." Current World Leaders: International Issues 40, 4 (August 1997):12-21. "Claiming Territory: Saami Assemblies as Ethno-Political Institutions." Polar Geography 20,3 (1996): 163-179. "Claiming Memory in British Columbia: Aboriginal Rights and the State." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 20, 4 (1996): 71-90. "The Swedish Saami Rights Commission." In Indigenous Peoples in Remote Regions: Comparative Perspectives, ed. Ken Coates (Thunder Bay, Ontario: Lakehead University, Centre for Northern Studies, 1995). "The Alaska Natives." In Polar Peoples: Self-Determination and Development, ed. Minority Rights Group (London: Minority Rights Group, 1994).
"Swedish Policy and Saami Rights." The Northern Review 11 (Winter 1993), 32-55. "Evaluative Discourse, Tribal Sovereignty, and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act." In Minority Group Influence: Agenda Setting, Formulation, and Public Policy, ed. Paula D. McClain (Greenwood Press, 1993) 83-107. "Problem Definition and the Alaska Natives: Ethnic Identity and Policy Formation." Policy Studies Review 9, 2 (Winter 1990), 294-306.