2025

Master Zsolt Györegy at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend his dissertation Close Encounters with the Tupi-Guarani: Art, Genre, and Translational Epistemology in Early Modern Ethnography for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD).

Master Vidar Benjamin Skretting at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend his dissertation The Origins of Sahelian Jihadism: Algerian Terrorism, Azawadi Emirate, and Malian Insurgency for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD).

Master Hanne Amanda Trangerud at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend her dissertation To Use or Refuse? A Study of Religious Vaccine Skepticism and its Interaction with Childhood Immunization Policies in the United States for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD).

Master Ingvild Tomren at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend her dissertation Emboldening the Ordinary in the Egyptian Nahḍa. A Mass Musical Manifesto for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD).

Master Zahra Abbasi at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend her dissertation Heal Thyself: Construction of Knowledges of Self-Care in Contemporary Iran for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD).

Master Marta Alvhild Mboka Tveit at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages defended her dissertation Resonances in Engagement with Climate Change in Contemporary Anglo-African and Norwegian Speculative Fictions for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD).

Master Daniel Mohseni Kabir Bäckström at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies defended his dissertation Ghosts and the State: Immaterial Agencies in the Blang Mountains for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Amna Mahmood at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies defended her dissertation Feminism in Islam, Social Media and Religious Change. A Study of Multidimensional Decolonial Muslim Feminist and Queer Initiatives in Scandinavia for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Mustafa Akay at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies defended his dissertation Grasping Knowledge of the Whole World for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD).