Researchers
Trude Fonneland – Professor
cultural studies
Religion and tourism
shamanism
museology
Research groups
- Societal Dimensions of Sami Research (SoDiSámi)
- Indigenous Religion(s) (INREL)
- Creating the New North (CNN)
Brynhild Granås – Associate Professor
Keywords: Identity processes; materialities; human - non-human relationships; animals; the nature-culture dichotomy; climate change; landscape; place; power relations; postcolonial perspectives; industrialization; tourism; cultural industries; outdoor life; Arctic; Polar.
Research groups: "Narrating the Post-Colonial North", "Place, Power and Mobility" and "Border Culture/Border Poetics".
Kjersti Fjørtoft – Professor
Political philosophy, democracy, citizenship, theories of justice, public reason, global justice,feminism, ethics, research etihics.
Liudmila Nikanorova – Researcher
Astrid Hovden – Associate Professor
Current research:
I am currently studying climate change adaptation in Himalaya, as part of the project “Himalayan Connections: Melting Glaciers, Sacred Landscapes and Mobile Technologies in a Changing Climate” (HimalConnect) funded by the Research Council of Norway.
The project explores the historical and current perceptions and responses to environmental hazards in two Buddhist communities in the Himalaya, and how they change with the introduction of new connectivities and new modes of governance. Particular focus is given to how knowledge about such management strategies can be scaled out and made relevant across the different decision-making levels of environmental management.
Further research interests:
- Buddhism
- Climate change adaptation in the Himalaya
- Religion and economy
- Religion and politics
- Indigeneity
- Social history
- Tibet- and Himalaya studies
Monica Grini – Associate Professor
Historiography, museology and representation, especially articulations and receptions of Sámi art.
Member of the research project The Art of Nordic Colonialism: Writing Transcultural Art Histories, University of Copenhagen, 2019–2023.
Member of the research project The Governmateriality of Indigenous Religion(s), UiB, 2020–2024.
Bjørn Ola Tafjord – Professor
Ethnographic and historiographic studies of indigeneities and religions; materiality; pedagogical, political, and analytical translations; religion and politics; missionising; indigenising, religionising, and secularising; indigenous traditions in Talamanca (Costa Rica/Panama) and Sápmi (Norway/Sweden/Finland); religion in international networks of indigenous peoples; Christianities in Latin America and the Nordic countries; Baha'i; other religious groups and movements in Latin America.
Aheli Moitra – Researcher
- Theory & Method in the Study of Religion
- History of Religious Studies
- Indigeneity, religion, indigenous religion (s)
- Indigenous media
- Indigenous Peoples
- Right to Self-determination
- Morung
- Christianity
- Newspapers, journalism
- Nagaland, India, Myanmar, Asia
- COVID-19
Siv Ellen Kraft – Professor
Contemporary religion in Sápmi, indigenous religion(s)
Head of the research group Indigenous Religion(s). Local Grounds, Global Networks, NFR 2015-2020
