Do you need inspiration for the project outline or project description? Our research staff have compiled some of their research interests in the form of project proposals for master's projects.
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Themes and areas: Global amber extraction, trade, and scientific research in China, Myanmar, Japan, or the Baltic coast; deep-time and geological relations; infrastructure development in Asian borderlands; hunting and human-environment relations in the Alps.
Contact: Alessandro Rippa
Themes: Images as source of knowledge, research tool and mode of representation.
Areas: Norway, Europe, Latin America.
Contact: Arnd Schneider
Themes: religion and law, religion and politics, secularism and race, politics of recognition, ethnoracial policy and law, religion and race-based identity politics, semiotics, language, discourse and interaction.
Areas: Latin America, Brazil, Finland.
Contact: Elina Hartikainen
Themes: Containerships and maritime working lives, labour and livelihoods, colonialism and the military.
Areas: Europe, Asia or North America.
Contact: Elisabeth Schober
Themes: labour, the logistics industries, port infrastructure, maritime work, as well as tourism, housing, real-estate and economic anthropology.
Area: Europe.
Contact: Hege H?yer Leivestad
Themes: Political anthropology, environmental anthropology, state formation, informality, contested landscapes, ecological globalisation, conservation.
Areas: Norway, Southern Africa.
Contact: Knut G. Nustad
Themes: Political, economic, and multimodal anthropology, financialization of housing, transnational migration.
Areas: Latin America, the US and Europe.
Contact: Maka Suarez
Themes: Political ecology, land disputes, extractivism, Sápmi and indigenous issues, biodiversity, domestication, aquaculture, human-animal relations, food production and consumption.
Areas: Norway, Sápmi, Australia.
Themes: food, new economies and industry, diasporas, refugees, religion and environmentalism.
Areas: Norway, Europe or the Middle East.
Contact: Nefissa Naguib
Themes: Political anthropology, economic anthropology, conspiracies and conspiracy theory, citizenship, criminality, the state, capital and capitalism, labour, land management, solidarity.
Areas: Italy, Greece, Cyprus, the Mediterranean, Europe.
Contact: Theodoros Rakopoulos
Themes: Rituals, religion, ecology, language and ethnicity.
Areas: Norway, Europe, Melanesia.
Contact: Thorgeir Kolshus
Themes: Anthropology of health and the environment, of protective infrastructures and technologies, and the ambivalent traces of modernity in Africa.
Areas: Africa.
Contact: Paul Wenzel Geissler
