Department of Culture and Media Studies

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.

Anne holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology and works as a researcher. 

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

I am Assistant Professor 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. 

Jenny holds a PhD in ethnology and works as a lecturer and researcher.

Johanna Arnesson is an assistant professor in Media and Communication Studies. Her research includes critical perspectives on promotion, political communication, and digital media.

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

Program coordinator of the Journalism program and associate professor in media and communication studies.

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

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

I research discourses on societal crises and the expressions of trauma, grief, and resilience on social media, primarily on Twitter and TikTok.

Researching image and media ethics, and photojournalism

Ph.D. student in ethnology, studying the contemporary interest in deserted houses to find out the conditions and fantasies that make practices of "saving" deserted houses meaningful.

Zakayo Kjellström. I am a doctoral student at the department for Culture and Media Studies. My dissertation is on the illegal download of academic litterature.