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My research is situated at the intersection of cultural geography, memory studies, critical theory, and art history. 

I received my PhD from Uppsala University late spring 2025. In my thesis, I focused on the work of two contemporary visual artists—Yael Bartana and Michael Rakowitz—as a way to explore critical artistic interventions that engage with and materialise the complexities of diaspora and displacement, of both people and objects, and how these interventions reshape and re-place landscapes marked by ruination.

My current research project, Spaces of Reparative Memory, funded by The Crafoord Foundation and co-funded by Malmö University and the Institute for Urban Research (IUR), studies the meaning and making of reparative remembering in the aftermath of far-right violence.

Research Themes

At the IUR, urban humanities mobilizes humanities scholars to engage with the full range of human expression in and of the urban, from literature and visual culture to public art, the built environment, memory, and heritage. These explorations open new ways of understanding and imagining urban space, lived cities, and the cultural object we call…

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