Reinert Skumsnes
Job description
Reinert Skumsnes is Associate Professor at the Centre for Women's and Gender Research. He is trained as a teacher and historian, but specialise in interdisciplinary research, between Egyptology, gender and cultural studies. He has worked as an archivist and field archaeologist for American and British missions in Egypt, and has also been chairman of the Norwegian Society of Egyptologists, co-chairman of the Nordic Association of Feminist and Gender Research, and deputy chairman of the Norwegian Association for Gender Research.
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Research interests
Skumsnes' research has focused on social history, through the lens of family and gender, with New Kingdom Egypt (1500-1000 BCE) as a speciality. During more recent years, his attention has shifted more towards the concept of the body, exploring the interdisciplinary potential between Egyptology and other disciplines, between past empirical material and present theories of the body, and sex/gender. He is concerned with relational encounters, between spatially and temporally fractal positions, perspectives and records, which includes the significance of material, genre, purpose and context of specific records, the selection of records, as well as the questions and perspectives of the interpreter.
Teaching
HIF-2160 Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
