Primary fields of research

Textile production, craft organisation and trade during the Iron and Viking ages in Scandinavia

Textile Production in the Bronze Age Mediterranean

Invisible Craft, Living Textile Handicraft & Experimental Textile Archaeology – rendering invisible textile production visible

Traditional Textile Craft - an Intangible Culture Heritage? 

Capturing our intangible past: Craft technology and experimental archaeology in digital space

Current research

The textile landscape, particularly textile economy in the Viking Age: See projects for Fashioning the Viking Age and Cloth Cultures in and Beyond the Viking Age on the CTR website: www.ctr.hum.ku.dk.

Science in textile archaeology - experimental and digital archaeology. See the project Practises of Practise: Between Crafts People and Digital Tools. 

Also archaeology and textile research in the Near East, particularly Anatolia, as well as in the Aegean.

Knowledge of languages

Swedish, English, Danish and Norwegian

Fields of interest

Archaeology in Northern Europe and Mediterranean; textile production; craft organisation; trade; gender; archaeology and politic; archaeology and ethics; experimental archaeology, computer applications in Archaeology

Teaching

Developed and runs the course in Textile Archaeology - a Hands-On Course, allowing students to combine hands-on experience with the textile processes and the theoretical science of their chosen discipline. 

Teach prehistoric archaeolgy at Saxo Institute.

Introductory remarks on publicationslist

Please note that my bibliography is unfortunate not complete, due to errors in the report system. For a complete list please email me.

CV

Academic employment

2017- Director, Centre for Textile Research

2015- Associate Professor Archaeology, SAXO institute, University of Copenhagen

2009 – 2015, Associate Professor at the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research, SAXO institute, University of Copenhagen

2005-2009 Post doc at the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research, SAXO institute, University of Copenhagen.

1999-2005 Lecturer, Director of Studies, and Researcher at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University

Academic education

2012 Docent ("senior associate professor") habilitation and appointment Lund University, Sweden, 

2000 Phil. Dr. (PhD), in Prehistoric Archaeology at Lund University 

1989 Phil. Cand., in Prehistoric and Medieval Archaeology, and Ethnology at Lund University  

Supplementary training and courses (selected)

2002, 2004 Courses in university management at Lund University, Sweden

2001-2004 Courses in university education and teaching, Lund University, Sweden