Tasks performed
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Head of research services section
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Team: Special Collections and Digitization
Background
Education:
- Dr. Polit. (PhD) in social anthropology, University of Oslo, 2003
- Cand. Polit. (MA) in social anthropology (with folkloristics and history of religion), University of Oslo, 1996
Employment:
- 2021- : Head of Research services section, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, University of Oslo
- 2018-2021: Head of Research and reference section, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, University of Oslo
- 2017-2018: Temporary head of Research and reference section, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, University of Oslo
- 2015-2017: Subject expert in social anthropology and research support coordinator at Humanities and Social Sciences Library, University of Oslo
- 2005-2015: Senior academic librarian and subject expert in social anthropology and religion at the University of Oslo Library
- 2003-2005: Postdoctoral fellow at The Oceania Project, University Museum of Cultural History, Department of Linguistics, and the Kon-Tiki Museum
- 1998-2003: Research fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo
Other:
- 2016-2017: Local representative of the Norwegian Association of Researchers
- 2015-2017: Chair of the Norwegian Anthropological Association
- 2014-2015: Member of the editorial committee of the academic writing resource Søk & Skriv
- 2012-: Subject expert for Papua New Guineas's etnography, geography and history in the encyclopaedia Store norske leksikon
- 2011-2019: Member of the editorial committee of Skrifter fra Universitetsbiblioteket i Oslo [University of Oslo Library Occasional papers]
- 2001-2004: Member of the editorial board for Norsk Antropologisk tidsskrift [The Norwegian Anthropological Journal]
Areas of interest:
Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, social organization, kinship, adoption, place, landscape, symbolism, myths, gender, library