As a PhD fellow, I research student activism with a focus on social and epistemic justice in the US. Building on anthropological fieldwork at the University of California Berkeley, I unpack how students, staff and faculty navigate in a politically polarized reality. More specifically I am interested in how knowledge is awarded legitimacy and negotiations over representations of the past. 

The project is funded by the Danish Independent Research Fund as part of the larger project: "Fighting for e/quality: Comparative ethnographies of new student movements"

I was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct fieldwork at UC Berkeley and to study abroad at the Center For Higher Education. The research stay was also supported by: William Demant Fonden, Torben og Alice Frimodts fond, Brorsons rejselegat and Augustinus Fonden.

I have taught a number of anthropological subjects, supervised undergraduate theses and fieldwork students.

At DPU, I have specifically taught the mandatory subjects "fieldwork and analysis", "engaging anthropology" and acted as a supervisor in "field design".

As a former external lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, I have taught and supervised a number of anthropological and related subjects at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

I am particularly interested in themes such as nationalism, political violence, activism, racialisation and gender. Previously I have conducted fieldwork in the UK on military remembrance practices and the construction of national unity and imaginaries. Further I have conducted fieldwork on community building in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina.