HT-fakulteterna är glada att välkomna Magdalena Naum som universitetslektor i historisk arkeologi. Magdalena presenterar sig så här:
My name is Magdalena Naum and I am a historical archaeologist. I have broad interests in human migration and diaspora communities in late medieval through modern period, colonialism and histories of collecting. My work is theory-driven and interdisciplinary.
I received my PhD degree in 2008 from Lund University on a dissertation on medieval Slavic migration to the island of Bornholm. Since then, my research evolved to encompass late medieval mobility and diasporas as well as colonial migration, exploitation and settlement. I have researched colonial settlement in New Sweden and resource exploitation and the early modern development of mining, ideology of discipline and governmentality in Sapmi. Scandinavian colonial expansion remains central to my research, which in recent years has expanded to include colonial knowledge production and collecting. I have investigated a cabinet of curiosity of Kilian Stobæus and the earliest museum at Lund University as sites of colonial knowledge and representation. Currently, I am involved in a project examining enduring materiality of colonialism in the former Danish West Indies (US Virgin Islands) researching representational and biographical dimensions of keepsakes brough back to Denmark. I am also researching Native American objects brought to Denmark as a result of settler colonialism.
I have been previously employed at the University of Cambridge and Oulu University. Since 2016, I am an associate professor in historical archaeology at the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark.
I have edited several books, including Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity (Springer, 2013), Facing Otherness in Early Modern Sweden (Woodbridge, 2018), Collecting curiosities (Lund University, 2020) and Archaeological Things on the Move: Material Exchanges in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Brepols, 2021). I am an associate editor of the Settler Colonial Studies journal.
I am excited to join the Archaeology Department and the Faculty of Humanities at Lund University.
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