Researcher Portraits

Get to know some of the researchers at the department better. Read about their research areas, fieldwork and why they do what they do.

Johana Kunin

Moral ambiguities, power and non-human actors in Argentine farming

Johana is our most recent colleague, who has come to Uppsala from Argentina to work with the Formas funded-research project Prosperity, Plants, and Poison: Ambivalences over Pesticide Use in Contemporary Argentina.

Read the full interview

Portrait of Johana Kunin, smiling into the camera

Sverker Finnström

Existential fears, global wars and to see cracks in the narrative of good versus evil.

Mats Utas

Violent gangs, the role of assistants in research and a personal journey of discovery in Japan.

Camelia Dewan

Award-Winning Environmental Anthropologist Examining Climate Discourse in Aid Projects

Claudia Merli

Anthropology and the medical fields, unexpected research findings and working with disasters.

Oscar Pripp

About the political power in music, the ethnological ID in working life, and how good people create bad effects.

Annika Björnsdotter Teppo

Researches the post-apartheid lives of white South Africans.

Carl Rommel

Fieldwork among big and small projects in Cairo.

Susann Baez Ullberg

People’s relationships with water, the role of anthropology in fighting climate change, and the ethical aspects of environmental degradation

Carina Johansson

Scrutinizing the power aspects of naming and depicting cultural heritage on Gotland.

Owe Ronström

Totalizing sustainability.

Karin Eriksson-Aras

Tools to catch the desires of inhabitants.

Sten Hagberg

Breaking the glass ceiling in Burkina Faso.