Lund University Sweden
Eleonora Narvselius
Co-I Sweden
I am an anthropologist in the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University, Sweden. My research interests include Memory Studies, Heritage Studies, Urban Studies and studies of ethnicity and nationalism. In the course of my research career I have participated in several international research projects focusing on urban environment, memory and heritage management, e.g., Life Forms in the Suburbs of Large Cities in the Baltic Sea Region (funded by the Swedish Research Council, project leader Prof. Karl-Olof Arnstberg, 1999-2001) and Memory of Vanished Population Groups and Societies in Today’s East- and Central European Urban Environments. Memory Treatment and Urban Planning in Lviv, Chernivci, Chisinau and Wrocław (funded by the Swedish research foundation Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, project co-ordinator Dr. Bo Larsson, 2011-2014). I have also been involved into two COST Actions: CA16213 New Exploratory Phase in Research on East European Cultures of Dissent (NEP4Dissent), and IS1203 In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe (ISTME).
Currently I am participating in two other research projects: Crafting Academic Heritage in Lund, Wroclaw, Lviv And Kaliningrad. Cultural-Historical Diversity of Universities in European Borderland Regions (Lund University, funded by Erik Philip Sörensens Foundation and Crafoord Foundation), and Enhancing Social Cohesion through Sharing the Cultural Heritage of Forced Migrations (University of Barcelona, SO-CLOSE, funded from Horizon 2020).
Philip Dodds
I am an interdisciplinary researcher based at Lund University’s Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, where I lecture in sound studies, intermedia studies and musicology. I am also a member of the research nodes for aesthetic studies and popular culture. Alongside my work on MaHoMe, I recently finished a two-year postdoc on the topic ‘Sonic Sense of Place’, and now I am embarking on a three-year project on ‘Musical Colonization’, funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). Previously, I was a lecturer in cultural studies at the Bader International Study Centre (a UK campus of Queen’s University, Canada), and my PhD was in cultural geography from the University of Edinburgh in2017.
My PhD was part of an interdisciplinary and participatory research project called ‘Mapping Edinburgh’s Social History’. While in Edinburgh I also contributed, together with more than a dozen researchers from different disciplines, to ‘At Home in Scotland: Stories of Place’, a public engagement initiative in collaboration with the Scottish Storytelling Centre.
My research spans the fields of cultural geography, urban studies and imperial history, and I study how different cultural forms and expressions can produce different kinds of place-based identities and claims to belonging, including in the politically contested förorter (suburbs) of Sweden. I am co-editor of POPULÄR – Nordic Journal of Popular Culture Studies, and author of The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh (Boydell, 2022). I have published articles in such journals as Emotion, Space & Society, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers and Global Intellectual History.
Nada Al-Hudaid
I am a social and visual anthropologist who has worked on identity, religion and art for nearly two decades across three continents/regions: Australia, Middle East and Europe. My research interests include materiality, gender, miracles, dreams and religious art. Following my PhD at the University of Manchester in the UK, I worked as a research fellow at the University of Birmingham and at Lund University. Throughout these research positions, my focus has been on Shia Muslims in Kuwait and the UK and how they employ art as a form of service to God.
Currently, I am a post-doctoral researcher on the MaHoMe project undertaking visual ethnographies and interviews across the UK, Denmark and Sweden. In addition to my academic interests, she is a filmmaker and enjoys social media analysis and management.
Camilla Winde Gissel
I am a cultural criminologist specializing in the narratives surrounding migration, crimmigration and identity. My journey began as a research assistant on the MaHoMe project, where I conducted extensive interviews and ethnographic fieldwork with migrants in Denmark and Sweden. This experience allowed me to delve into the complexities of identity, home-making, and migration.
Currently, I am a PhD candidate at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at Oslo University. My research focuses on the meaning-making processes involved in constructing ‘political violence’ as a social problem and the (perceived) solutions to it. As part of the EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network VORTEX, I am dedicated to developing a broader understanding of political violence.
Chris High
A lecturer in peace and development at Linnaeus University in Sweden, I have worked with participatory methods, community development, adaptation to climate change and learning and communication in sustainable development in Europe, Central Asia, Australia, Eastern and Southern Africa and India. Since coming to Sweden in 2016, I have participated in a number of projects relating to migration and the integration of migrants, and developed the participatory instant messaging methodology that was part of the MaHoMe Swedish Visual Ethnography Workshops.