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 Associate Professor (senior lecturer) 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.

Assistant lecturer in comparative literature and creative writing.

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.

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

Senior lecturer in ethnology. Research focus includes cultural aspects of 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.

I explore how social media shapes our responses to crises—how we grieve, process trauma, and find resilience in digital spaces like Twitter and TikTok.

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.

Researching image and media ethics, and photojournalism

PhD student in museology

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.