Kari Aga Myklebost
Job description
Barents Chair in Russian Studies, Professor of Russian History. Memory politics and uses of history. Russian information operations, hybrid operations. Security politics and geopolitics in the Arctic.
Recent scholarship:
Hybrid threats in high latitudes: Facing Russia on Svalbard - Hybrid CoE - The European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, with Stian Bones and Thomas Nilsen (2025)
The Politics of World War II Memories in the North: Regional and Transborder Memory Politics in Russia and Norway, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, 2/2025, eds. Kari Aga Myklebost, Håvard Bækken, and Stian Bones
Xi and Putin: World War II History as Geopolitical Power, The Independent Barents Observer, with Marc Lanteigne, UiT (2025)
Russland på Svalbard: sikkerhetspolitikk, bilateralisering og subversjon. In Njord Wegge (red.), Stormaktskonkurranse og innovasjon – mellom tradisjonelle og irregulære maktmidler i Arktis | Cappelen Damm Forskning, with Stian Bones (2025)
“Vi har egne midler – Oresjnik og Kinzhal.” Trump-effekten i russisk presse. In Ole Jacob Sending (red.), Trump 2.0 og internasjonal politikk | NUPI (2025)
Russland på Svalbard: de lange strategiske linjer, Svalbardposten (2025) with Stian Bones (UiT)
"Exploiting the “white coal” of the Pasvik River. Negotiating corporate and national interests in the border region during the German occupation of Norway", Scandinavian Journal of History (2024) (with Maria Lähteenmäki, UE Finland)
Russian active measures in Eastern Finnmark, Norway. The Independent Barents Observer (thebarentsobserver.com) (2024)
A Sino-Russian Arctic alliance? | The Independent Barents Observer (thebarentsobserver.com), with Marc Lanteigne, UiT (2024)
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Research interests
The history of the northern regions 19th-21st centuries, including the following sub topics: Norwegian-Russian historical relations; history of science; history of northern minorities. Theories and methods in history. Memory politics and uses of history. Russian information operations, hybrid operations. Security politics and geopolitics in the Arctic.
PI on the research project Memory Politics of the North, 1993-2023. An Interplay Perspective (NORMEMO).
Teaching
The history of the northern regions and Norwegian-Russian historical relations, modern Russian history, theories and methods of history, history politics.
Member of research group
Member of project
Attachments:
- CV Myklebost 2025 (pdf)