Marzia Varutti

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Academic Interests

• critical museum and heritage studies
• museum anthropology and collaborative museology
• emotions in museums
• relations between museums and Indigenous Peoples
• cross-cultural perspectives on heritage and museums
• multiculturalism and cultural diversity in museums
• material culture and object biographies
• cultural heritage and collective memory
• national narratives in museums

Regional expertise: Taiwan; Norway; limited field research in British Columbia (Canada) and Belize.

Teaching

As part of the Master in Museology and Cultural Heritage, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo.

• Critical Museum Studies: history and theory (MUSKUL4200)
• Research Methods in Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies (MUSKUL4110/4210)
• Master thesis writing seminars (MUSKUL4590)

As part of the BA in Cultural History, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo.

• Museums: a Cultural History (KULH2008)
• Material culture in a Globalized World (KULH2081)

2012-15 Lecturer, Master in Museum Studies, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester (UK).

PhD supervision

• Liisa-Rávná Finbog, The making of indigenous identity through the use of material culture within a museological framework
• Eva Johansen, The restitution of Sámi cultural heritage: what happens locally? (co-supervision with Prof. Stein Roar Mathisen, UiT)
• Laura Osorio Iregui, Weaving heritage in a globalized world. A case study of Wayuu and Wounan Colombian indigenous crafts.

Completed: Sofia Bollo, Chinese cultures on display, URPP Asia & Europe, University of Zürich/CH (co-supervision).

Higher education and employment history

• Since 2016: Associate Professor in Museology and Cultural History, IKOS
• 2012-15: NFR-FRIHUM Postdoctoral Fellow, IKOS
• 2009-12: Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester (UK)
• 2008 PhD, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), University of Geneva, Switzerland. PhD thesis: 'Which museum for what China? Museums, objects and the politics of representation in the post-Maoist transition'.
• Between 2005 and 2008 (total of 12 months), Collections assistant, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge (UK)
• 2003 Master in International and Development Studies, IHEID, University of Geneva.
• 1999 Master in Diplomatic Studies, Institute of International Sociology (Gorizia, Italy) / Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

International affiliations and cooperation

• Visiting Research Fellow, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester (UK)
• Visiting Researcher, Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (June-July 2014)
• Visiting Researcher, College of Indigenous Studies, Donghwa University, Taiwan, R.O.C. (Feb-Aug 2013)
• Visiting Researcher, Graduate School of Museum Studies, Taipei National University of the Arts, R.O.C. (Feb-Aug 2010; Sept-Dec 2011)