PhD in Cultural studies from University of South-Eastern Norway. Associate professor at Department of Culture, Religion and Social Studies, Human Rights and Multiculturalism master's program. Research leader Strategic Research area ( SFO), Democracy, societal organisation and governance.
My research explores urban cultures, urban experiences and politics, with a particular focus on everyday experiences, the role of the senses, social inequalities, citizenship, human rights, heritage, urban militarization and urban change in cities in the global south, and beyond. I was a research fellow at USN (2018-2021) and worked on the PhD project “Licence-to-kill: Residents’ experiences of living in a ‘pacified’ favela in Rio de Janeiro, 2011–2018”. From 2011 to 2014 I was a research fellow at the University of Bergamo in Italy and Universidade Federal Fluminense. I hold a master’s degree in European Studies on Society, Science and Technology from the University of Maastricht and I have undertaken ethnographic fieldwork in South Africa and Brazil.
Ansvarsområder
- Program director Master in Human Rights and Multiculturalism - Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge
- Deputy Director Demokrati, samfunnsorganisering og styring - Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge
Course coordinator
- EDUC PhD Summer School in Critical Methodologies - Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge
- MHRMC620 Theories of culture and multiculturalism
- MHRMC900 Master's thesis
Teaching and supervision Master's level
- MHRMC620 Theories of culture and multiculturalism
- MHRMC610 International human rights protection and the role of international institutions, mechanisms and relations
- MHRMC810 Pluriversal approaches to social justice: current issues on emancipation, human rights and implementation policies
- MHRMC830 The Practice og Human Rights and Multiculturalism (Student advocacy and internship with Scholars at Risk)
- MHRMC730 Research Methodologies and methods in the Fields of Human Rights
- 2550 Historie og teori i kulturstudiane (Master i kulturstudier)
Teaching and supervision PhD level
- PhD course Theory of Science and Research Ethics
- EDUC PhD Summer School in Critical Methodologies - Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge
Teaching and workshops staff and researchers
- Developing Doctoral Supervision (DDS) and Diversity in PhD supervision
- EDUC Gender methodologies (digital course)
Kompetanse
- Global cultural studies
- Urban sociology and urban anthropology
- Postcolonialism and decoloniality
- Everyday urban politics
- Visual anthropology and visual methods
- Decolonizing methodologies
- Ethics
- Studies on Society, Science and Technology (STS)
- Cities in the global South
- Citizenship
- Power, racism and space
- Peripheries
- Social inequalities
Research interests
Urban cultures, urban experiences and politics, with a particular focus on everyday experiences, space, visual methods, the role of the senses, decolonial perspectives, critical heritage studies, social inequalities, citizenship, human rights, social justice, ethics, racism, power, social movements, social media, Southern black atlantic, planetary humanism, peripheries, global south, urban militarization and urban change in cities.
Research groups and networks
Cross-disciplinary Research on Latin America (CLA)
CV
Professional experience
- Director Master's Program in Human Rights and Multiculturalism (2024- dd)
- Deputy Director USNs strategic research area Democracy, Social Organisation and Governance (2026 - dd)
- Director USNs strategic research area Democracy, Social Organisation and Governance (2025-2026)
- Associate professor Department of Culture, Religion and Social Studies, Human Rights and Multiculturalism master's program (2023- dd)
- Deputy Director USNs strategic research area Democracy, Social Organisation and Governance (2023-2024)
- Senior advisor unit for analysis, strategy institutional governance (2023)
- Assistant professor Department of Culture, Religion and Social Studies (2022)
- Senior advisor, Research and Innovation Unit (2022)
- PhD research fellow, Culture Studies, USN (2018-2021)
- Visiting scholar Universidade de Lisboa, IGOT, The Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (2019)
- PhD researcher, ISCTE, Instituto Universitario de Lisboa, Department of sociology (2019)
- Senior advisor, rectorate, USN (2018-2021)
- Senior advisor, Department of research and innovation, USN (2016-2018)
- Assistant project manager KLOK (Kvinnelige forskere, Læring, Organisasjon og Kjønnsbalanse), USN, funded by the Norwegian Research Council (2015-2016)
- Research fellow, Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones, the University of Bergamo (2010-2014).
- Guest researcher, Institute of Art and Social communication, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil (2011-2013)
- Guest researcher, Faculty of Philology, Hermeneia research centre for Literary studies and Digital technology, Universidade de Barcelona, Spain
Education
- PhD Culture studies, USN (2022)
- MA European Studies on Society, Technology and Science, Governance of Innovation and Technological Cultures in the Global South and North, from the University of Maastricht (2010). Fieldwork in South Africa.
- BA Culture and history of ideas, University of Oslo (The National University of Singapore (NUS), University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa, University of Bamako, Mali).
- BA Fashion design, Nouvelle Couture, cultures, technology, sustainability and identities, Ecole Supérieure de l’Art et Technique de la Mode, Paris (2005).
Languages:
English, French, Brazilian Portuguese (fluent)
Spanish, Italian, German (basic)
Ongoing projects:
Favela heritage practices, 'women warriors', displacement, and struggles for political memory and social justice in Rio de Janeiro (in review)
Field notes – extracts: visual notes from a longitudinal ethnographic research of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas (in review)
Favelas 4D' senseable city mapping, borderising bodies and algorithmic policing in Rio de Janeiro (in progress)