“It is delightful to see that so many excellent researchers choose to join us in Oslo,” says Frode Helland, dean of The Faculty of Humanities (HF) at the University of Oslo.
Eleven researchers have been awarded postdoctoral fellowships from Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) to start a research project at HF. MSCA is a prestigious EU scheme that gives young researchers the opportunity to do research at an institution abroad. It is thus a golden opportunity to recruit international talent.
“The good news is a result of the work done by many professional environments here at the faculty, so all credit to them,” says Helland.
Strengthening research at the faculty
Textile history, Indian science fiction and early modern understandings of the Virgin Mary are among the topics that will be investigated by the MSCA-recipients in the coming years. Several of the projects bring important and new perspectives on gender and minorities. The researchers will be connected to ongoing research at the faculty.
“This way of working as a postdoctoral fellow is very beneficial because the researchers already have a mentor in the departments. The applications are written together, and this year’s good results show how well this method works,” says Mathilde Skoie, research dean at HF.
Skoie points out that the postdocs are a central group among the scientific staff.
“We want to focus on the postdocs in our work on a good research culture, and the MSCA candidates are an important part of this.”
Twenty-five projects at UiO were awarded MSCA scholarships this year. Altogether, HF has received a total of 30 MSCA scholarships.
These have been granted Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Scholarships:
Department of Archeology, Conservation and History (IAKH)
Audrey Millet
- Project: Made in Sweatshops. Worker, technology and Gender (comparison Paris-Shanghai, Late 19th c.-Late 20th c.)
- Mentor: Veronique Pouillard
Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Arts and Ideas (IFIKK)
Eleonora Carinci
- Project: Rethinking Mary in Early Modern Italy: Men's and Women's perspectives on the Virgin Mary (1450-1650)
- Mentor: Unn Falkeid
Ida Caiazza
- Project: A Gendered History of Emotions in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy
- Mentor: Unn Falkeid
Toshiro Osawa
- Project: The Division of Ethics from Political Philosophy: Kant and Baumgarten on Right, Virtue, and Justice
- Mentor: Reidar Maliks
Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS)
Alireza Shams Lahijani
- Project: Nezam and Nazm: Iran's Concept of International Order
- Mentor: Einar Wigen
Tina Paphitis
- Project: Digital Folklore as Critical Heritage Production and Participation in Contemporary Norway
- Mentor: Line Esborg
Sami Ahmad Khan
- Project: The neoMONSTERS Within: The Others in India’s Science Fiction
- Mentor: Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay
Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN)
Frances Kvietok Dueñas
- Project: Becoming Indigenous language speakers and writers in higher education
- Mentor: Pia Lane
Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS)
Vera Faber
- Project: Soviet Ellipses: Omissions as Techniques of Border Transgression in Photography, Literature, and Everyday Life
- Mentor: Johan Schimanski
Alpo Honkapohja
- Project: Index of Middle English Prose: Digital Cotton Catalogue Project
- Mentor: Jacob Thaisen
Department of Media and Communication (IMK)
Seffetullah Kuldas
- Project: Ethnicity-Based Parenting for Child’s Online Safety/Risks
- Mentor: Elisabeth Staksrud