Research Projects
Below is a list of the department's externally funded research projects, chronologically arranged by project start date. Within these research initiatives, our colleagues lead theoretical advancement, methodological development and new knowledge production in their respective fields.
The Militarized Sensorium: State-Sponsored Infrastructure and Affective Politics in Egypt and Tunisia.
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"A People Without History"? Reclaiming the Sihanaka Past through Collaborative Historiography
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Subterranean Senses: The Phenomenological Challenge of Aquifers in Spain
VR 2026-2028.
Researcher: Susann Baez Ullberg
The project in Swecris: https://www.vr.se/english/swecris.html#/project/2025-01184_VR
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Out of Sight. Exploring social (im)perceptibility.
ERC Advanced Grant 2025–2029.
Researcher: Don Kulick
See the project website: https://www.outofsight.se/
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Toxic Foods: An Ethnographic Exploration of Processes of Food Contamination in Bangladesh
Formas 2025–2028.
Researcher: Camelia Dewan
The project in Swecris: https://www.vr.se/english/swecris.html#/project/2024-00430_Formas
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Prosperity, Plants, and Poison: Ambivalences over Pesticide Use in Contemporary Argentina
Formas 2025–2028.
Researcher: Johana Kunin
The project in Swecris: https://www.vr.se/english/swecris.html#/project/2024-00712_Formas
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Enabling climate-resilient development: How disasters can act as a pathway to a safer and more sustainable world
C-URGE Anthropology of Global Climate Urgency.
HORIZON – MSCA – 2021 – DN 2024-2027.
Researcher: Susann Baez Ullberg
The project website: https://www.c-urge.eu/
The School Situation for Students with Congenital Mobility Impairments.
Forte 2024–2026.
Researcher: Göran Nygren
The project in Swecris: https://www.vr.se/swecris.html#/project/2023-01225_Forte
or the project website
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The Dougan Letters: An historical ethnography of Afropolitan family life during the Cold War.
VR 2024-2026.
Researcher: Adelaida Caballero
The project in Swecris: https://www.vr.se/swecris.html#/project/2024-00542_VR
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Swedish Electricity as a Prognostication Infrastructure: Infrastructural Inclusion, Exclusion, Resilience, and Vulnerability
Formas 2024-2026.
Researcher: Ulrika Trovalla
Projektet i Swecris: https://www.vr.se/english/swecris.html#/project/2023-00548_Formas
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Silencing and Marginalization of Facilitating Researchers from the Global South: Analyzing the role of Academic Institutions and Norms.
VR 2023-2025.
Researcher: Mats Utas
The project in Swecris:
https://www.vr.se/english/swecris.html#/project/2022-03240_VR
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Decolonizing Research Methodologies: A Research School supporting empirical data collection, fieldwork relations, ethical challenges, and transnational approaches.
VR 2022-2024.
Researcher: Sten Hagberg
The project in Swecris: https://www.vr.se/english/swecris.html#/project/2021-05074_VR
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Egypt as a Project: Dreamwork and masculinity in a projectified society.
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond 2022–2024.
Researcher: Carl Rommel
The project in Swecris: https://www.vr.se/english/swecris.html#/project/P21-0155_RJ
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