2025

Master Tyler Barrott at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation Powering a Nation: Hydropower Development and the Tanzanian-Norwegian Relationship, 1989-2003 for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Øyvind Haug Nordbotten at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation An Unfulfilled Promise of Industrial Adventure: Analyzing Freyr’s emergence and attempt at establishing battery industry in Norway 2017–2023 for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Aljasil Chirakkal at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation An Integrated Archaeo-Ecological Approach to Understanding long-term Human Environment Interaction for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Anette Sand-Eriksen at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend her dissertation Houses of Their Own. The emergence of farmsteads and the persistence of mobile living in southeast Norway, 2350–500 BCE: Explorations towards the Nordic Bronze Ages for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Tatiana Petrukhina at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend her dissertation Custom in the Long Twelfth Century Canon Law: Theory and Practice for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Jan Dariusz Cutajar at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation Surface cleaning and spectral imaging: an interdisciplinary study applied to Munch’s monumental Aula paintings for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Kristine Ødeby Haugan at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend her dissertation An Archaeology of Nordic Seasonality. Urban life shaped by seasonal rhythm in Oslo 1100–1400 for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Francesco Maniglia at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation Remoulding Cultures: Issues of Continuity and Change in the Italiote Cities of Roman Italy for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Ragnar Øvergaard Aas at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History defended his dissertation Bound by solidarity: Norwegian activists and Chilean exiles against the junta, 1973-1990 for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).