Guests at the Division 2019
Every year we welcome several visiting scholars and other academic staff. Some come to teach in courses or in other ways collaborate with us, others come mainly do their own research. One thing they all have in common is that they become a big part of the Division.
FALL 2019
Damir is a Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is a literary theorist and psychoanalyst in training. In early 2019, he set up the working group “Zemlja, voda, zrak” (“Earth, Water, Air”) through which young people can work together to articulate and enact demands for environmental justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Read more here! (pdf 38 kB) |
October-December 2019 |
| Samantha Saville, Human Geographer Sam is a human geographer, most interested in nature-culture or human, non-human relations based at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK, where she did her undergraduate (2005) and PhD (2017) degrees. Following her PhD, ‘Saving Svalbard? Contested value, conservation practices and everyday life in the high Arctic’ Sam spent two years as research associate on ERC project, Global-rural examining globalization processes in rural Wales through assemblage thinking. She currently have 3 more weeks on her postdoctoral project Svalbard Futures before starting a teaching associate job at Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge. |
September 2019 |
| Qi Wang, data analyst at KTH library Qi is a data analyst at KTH library, and also a researcher working for the platform of Making Universities Matter (MUM). She finished her PhD at the Department of Industrial Economics and Management in KTH. Her dissertation was to explore and develop bibliometric methodologies in order to address the challenges caused by the dynamics of science. Qi worked as a postdoc researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark, where she work with research evaluation and research policy. She has a broad interest in research evaluation, career life, gender issues, and innovation studies. If you are interested in her research topics, you can reach her at qiwang@kth.se . |
2019 |
| Hélène Le Deunff, PhD Candidate in Environmental Humanities Hélène is a PhD Candidate in Environmental Humanities at the University of Sydney. Her research is supervised by A/P Thom van Dooren. Her research explores participatory water governance from a multi-species perspective. Hélène took part in the Public Environmental Humanities ENHANCE School in Stockholm in 2017 and in the Masterclass on Environmental Humanities and Museums organised by the University of Stavanger. |
2019-2020 |
SPRING 2019
| Elisa Privitera, PhD student at the University of Catania Italy and a C.M.Lerici Foundation fellow 
Elisa is an engineer and architect and her research interests are "small data" and community's role in the environmental planning of contaminated territories. After some periods of study abroad (Germany 2013, Spain 2014, Japan 2015), in 2017 she graduated in "Building Engineering-Architecture" with highest honors (110/110 cum laude) and recommendation for publication. She got a Post-Degree Specialization in "Local Participatory Action and Public Debate" at IUAV in Venice (2018) and she is currently a PhD student at the University of Catania (Italy) and member of LabPEAT (an Action-Research Laboratory on Ecological and Environmental Design of the Territory at the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania). Elisa will be collaborating with the EHL and Marco Armiero on the Toxic Bio project. |
February - July |
| Eva La Cour, PhD student at the Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg, Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts Eva’s research fields are the visual arts and visual anthropology. Her PhD project is an artistic research project on Arctic landscapes with Svalbard as a case study. |
January - February |
| Yunwei Song, associate professor at the School of History at Renmin University of China in Beijing This is Yunwei's second visit at the Division where she joins Per Högselius. She holds a PhD from Peking University (2002). Her doctoral dissertation and first book (The Period of Dual Federalism in the United States) dealt with the relationship between federal and state governments before the American Civil War. Her current academic interests are on the history of natural resources policy. Her second book (The History of Nature Resources Policy in the United States) was published in 2011. She has also published articles on themes such as the management and development of Indian forests during the British colonial period and the US Timber Culture Act of 1873. |
June 2018 - June 2019 |
| Esther Zamboni Rossi, PhD student at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Florianopolis Esther works with Eunice Nodari and her team of environmental historians. She is working on the environmental history of waste management in the city of Porto Alegre since 1970. She received a rather prestigious scholarship from the Brazilian agency Capes in order to spend a semester with us at the Lab. |
September 2018 - March 2019 |