Early Career Researchers
Tonicha Upham
Works on medieval Islamicate geographical and historical sources for the Viking diaspora, and in particular the Rūs.
Her research focuses on material written in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish across a range of genres – dictionaries of countries, encyclopaedias of geographical marvels, chronicles, descriptions of trade routes, travel accounts, and poetic commentaries – written between the ninth and seventeenth centuries AD.
Manu Braithwaite-Westoby
Studies the perceived links between the cultures of Iron/Viking age Scandinavia and pre-contact Aotearoa/New Zealand (1200-1800) through comparison of a variety of sources: archaeological, ethnographical, historical, literary, etc.
Alberto Robles Delgado
Specialises in the contemporary reception of the Viking world, examining how Vikings are represented and reinterpreted in global media cultures.
Alberto analyses comparatively the instrumentalization of the Viking presence in America within historiographical, media, and institutional discourses in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in contrast with the Hispanic narrative centred on Christopher Columbus. The project focuses on three geocultural areas: the United States, Spain, and Latin America.
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Karl Farrugia
Works on shifting the analytical focus away from the strictly ethnographic inquiry to a material-oriented approach, in which the primary objects of study will be the material culture and trading goods that connected Scandinavia to the Eurasian trading network and the Silk Road.