Guests at the Division 2016

Ilenia Iengo is a guest researcher in Political Ecology. She holds a Masters Degree in International Environmental Studies from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) with a thesis on the Urban Political Ecology of waste conflicts, toxic biographies and environmental injustice in Campania, Italy. She has been collaborating on the creation of the Italian Environmental Justice Atlas and works at the interface between academic research and activism. She has been part of the organising team of the International Conference of the European Network of Political Ecology (ENTITLE) held in Stockholm in March 2016 and the Stories of the Anthropocene Festival held in Stockholm in October 2016. During her stay she will be working on a paper on “The politicisation of ill bodies” upcoming on the peer-reviewed Journal of Political Ecology and a paper on “Guerrilla Narrative - a methodology for resistance” to be submitted to international peer-reviewed journals.	September to December
Roberta Biasillo is a guest researcher in Environmental History. She holds a PhD in Modern European History and her doctoral thesis focuses on the interaction between Italian nation-building and modernization and forests. During her stay here she will be working on a project entitled “The 1882 shocking revelation – The forgotten disaster that disclosed the Italian environmental complexity”. Together with Marco Armiero she is also planning to co-author an article on environmental history and more specifically on the 1882 disaster flooding the North-Eastern Italy.	September to December
Salvatore Altiero is postdoc fellow from Rome who will spend 3 months at the Division on a grant from Italy. Salvatore has a PhD in law (he worked on environmental commons) and he is interested in working on environmental migrants and on commons. He is also a film maker (he just received a prize to realize a movie on oil extraction in Italy) and an environmental journalist.	June to August
Ole Kallelid is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Oslo. His PhD topic is a comparison between Swedish and Norwegian politics in the 1960s and 1970s.	May to mid June
Ekaterina A. Kalemeneva is a PhD student at HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of History. Her dissertation title is “Making the Arctic Comfortable: Changes in Urbanization Models for the Soviet Far North in the 1950s-1960s”.	April to May
Katharina C. Cramer (b. Below) is a PhD student at the University of Konstanz (Germany) at the Research Group "Global Processes" lead by Jürgen Osterhammel. In her PhD Thesis, she explores the history of "Big Science" and aims to contribute to the understanding of the science-politics interfaces of large-scale research in Europe in the late 20th and early 21st century with regard to two specific facilities: The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble as well as the European X-Ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) in Hamburg. During her time at the division, she will particularly focus on the early history of the ESRF by tracing the process from the set-up of a working group on synchrotron radiation at the European Science Foundation in 1976 to the signing of ESRF’s Convention in 1988.	April to May
Vanessa Ogle is Julie and Martin Franklin assistant professor of modern European history at the University of Pennsylvania, where she has been teaching since receiving her PhD from Harvard University in 2011. Her first book, The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950 was published with Harvard University Press in October 2015, and her articles have appeared in the American Historical Review and Humanity, among others. Her current book project, Archipelago Capitalism, is a history of tax havens, offshore money markets, and free trade zones, ca. 1920s-1980s. Website .	9-12 March