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Jaanika is a lecturer in anthropology at Tallinn University. She is a museum anthropologist, which means she is interested in the representations created by museums but also the functioning of museums as social institution. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vienna, where she is researching ethnographic representations of the Arctic. Part of this research entails examining 19th century ethnographic collections from former Russian-America and Siberia in Estonia, brought here by Baltic-German explorers.

Jaanika holds a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology, an MA in Visual Anthropology and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis examined the history of British anthropology through the case study of Polish-born female anthropologist Maria Czaplicka and her 1914 Siberian expedition.

Research interests: visual and museum anthropology, material anthropology, Arctic and Siberian studies.