Job description

Katrine Rugeldal is an art historian and PhD scholar in the research project New Sámi Renaissance: Nordic Colonialism, Social Change and Indigenous Cultural Policy (NESAR) at UiT Norway's Arctic University Museum and Academy for Arts, UMAK (from Dec. 2021). In her doctoral work, she examines the importance of and the need for a Sami art museum through an empirical study which mainly consists of contemporary artistic, architectural and curatorial projects. Other research interests include: museology; contemporary art; Sami art, architecture and culture; performance; agency; representation; decolonial thinking; activism in the arts and its institutions; and power relations. In addition to NESAR, Rugeldal is a member of the research groups Worlding Northern Art (WONA), UiT and Research on Sámi Research and on Representation of Sámi Cultural Heritage (SAMFORSK), UiT.