Job description

Hanne Hammer Stien is Professor of Art History at the Academy of Arts, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and Deputy Director for Researcher Education at UMAK. As Deputy Director for Researcher Education, she is a member of the Strategic Doctoral Committee at UiT. She teaches on the BA and MA programs in Fine Arts and supervises PhD candidates in art history.

Stien’s research interests include museology and curatorial practice, the history and theory of photography, and contemporary art and art theory. Among her recent articles are “Drawing Sovereignty: The Museum Work of Sámi Artist Ánddir Ivvár Ivvár / Iver Jåks,” published in Critical Arts (2025), and “Dealing with Nordic Colonialism: Agency and Othering in Two Art Projects Invoking Living Ethnographic Displays,” coauthored with Cathrine Baglo and published in Third Text (2024).

Stien has also worked as an art critic and has curated several exhibitions and public art projects. She is a member of the steering committee of the Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF), a member of the professional committee of the Norwegian Museum Association, an assistant editor of Curator: The Museum Journal, chair of Lásságámmi, a member of the editorial board of Metode, and a board member of Tromsø Kunstforening.

Stien co-heads the research group Worlding Northern Art (WONA) at UiT together with Elin Haugdal. She is also member of the research group Object Lab (OLab) (2007–2008), led by Jannicke S. Kaasa at the University of Oslo (UiO).