Academic interests
I am an interdisciplinary scholar of environmental humanities, working in the intersections of environmental history, political ecology and environmental anthropology. My PhD thesis, which I defended in 2023, focused on the history and politics of Indigenous whaling practice and examined how dominant ideas in nature conservation have worked to marginalise Indigenous human-whale relations.
Since 2024, I have been the principal investigator of a four-year long post-doctoral research project titled Scales of change: Herring migration and fluctuating life in the Northern fjords. This research seeks to understand how the unpredictable migration patterns of Norwegian spring-spawning herring are culturally understood and politically governed, and what can the fluctuating environmental relations in the European Arctic tell us about the resilience and changing multispecies relationalities in the Anthropocene.
Background
- PhD Environmental Humanities, University of Oslo, 2023
- MSc Environment, Politics and Development, SOAS, University of London, 2016
- MA Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen, 2015
Teaching and supervision
- EHS4000 – Knowing Natures: Environmental Research Seminar (2023)
- EHS4020 - Introduction to Environmental Humanities (2023)
- JAP1501 – Present-Day Japan (2023, 2025)
Grants and awards
- British Council and Scottish Graduate School in Arts and Humanities EARTH scholarship (2023)
- Visiting EARTH fellowship at the University of Aberdeen (2023)
- Enkedronning Josephines legat til høyere utdanning grant (2023)
- International Partnerships for Excellent Education and Research (INTPART) grant for a visiting fellowship at the University of California Santa Cruz (2023)
- Nordic Institute of Asian Studies SUPRA grant for a visiting fellowship at the University of Copenhagen (2020)