Staff

Professor, Chair of Museology

Associate Professor of Archaeology

Interdisciplinary researcher in critical heritage studies

Professor in ethnology. Research areas include rural studies, ageing identities and loneliness, hormonal narratives, and green industrialisation.

I am an associate professor (docent) in Ethnology and teach several of the courses in Ethnology at the Department of Culture and Media Studies.

Resarching aspects of democracy, heritage and (de)coloniality and teaching ethnographic methods, ethnic diversity and museum education.

I am Associate Professor (docent) in Art History & Visual Studies. My research concerns design history, design theory and aspects of modernity, from circa 1800 onwards.

Eric Carlsson is an associate professor and senior lecturer in Media and Communication Studies.

Associate professor in Media and Communication. Teacher of excellent degree, and reciever of the Umeå Student Union Pedagogical Award. Producer of the swedish podcast The Media Observers. 

Assistant lecturer in comparative literature and creative writing.

Johanna Arnesson is an associate professor in Media and Communication Studies. Her research focuses on digital cultures, internet history, marketing and political communication.

I am Associate professor (docent) and senior university lecturer. My research interests concern narrativity, life stories, professional cultures and international mobility among highly skilled.

Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature and the Teaching of Literature. 

I am researching the role of communication and digital media in the organization of local environmental movements.

Professor in literature and senior lecturer at the Department for Culture and Media

PhD Candidate in Museology with focus on Gender

Senior lecturer in ethnology. Research focus includes cultural aspects of winter, cold, food culture, food storage, and sustainable consumption.

My research concerns media, journalism and sustainability, with a focus on media discourses about the so-called green reindustrialisation and societal transition of the Swedish North.

PhD in Culture Studies, lecturer in Museology. My research concerns museology as a discipline, museums and the (re)construction of identities; Memory Studies and museum activism.

PhD candidate in Media and Communication Studies. 

PhD student in museology