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NIAS Staff
Director
Director of NIAS and senior researcher.
Research areas
Cultural sociology, Korea/East Asia, comparative politics, political culture and forms of governance.
Administration
Project coordinator responsible for the NIAS SUPRA Programme, including the scholarship programme and visits by guest researchers, and the NIAS Newsletter. In charge of conferences, guest lectures and seminars. Support and coordinate the work of the Nordic NIAS Council.
Coordinates the Asian Dynamics Initiative - ADI.
Library & Information Centre
Online resources on East Asia incl. Chinese and Japanese language resources, the In Focus Blog on the AsiaPortal, NIAS LINC conference website module, matters regarding recalls of NIAS library loans, NNC Library Group admin. and general NIAS web issues.
Acquisitions librarian for NIAS Library & Information Centre and for the Faculty of Social Sciences Library, University of Copenhagen on monographs on Asia. Responsible for registration of electronic publications on Asia from the Nordic universities in the AsiaPortal.
Student assistant at the library.
NIAS Press
Editor-in-chief of NIAS Press.
The student assistant position at NIAS Press entails providing support to the Press in all areas, including various marketing and editorial responsibilities.
The student assistant position at NIAS Press entails providing support to the Press in all areas, including various marketing and editorial responsibilities.
Researchers
China, Non-governmental organizing, Gender, East-west communication
Globalization, the cross cultural studies and feminist politics.
Cultural anthropology, Indigenous peoples, Socio-economic development, Human rights
Regional focus: Southeast Asia & West Africa.
Modern China (19th century to contemporary), education (broadly defined), indigenization/globalization
Affiliated Researchers
India and South Asia
Guest Researchers
Affiliated PhD Students
National and local politics in Indonesia and the Philippines; democratisation; decentralization; elections and election campaigns.
Cultural-economic anthropology, Socio-economic development, Ethnicity, Cultural rights, Cultural commodity and Globalization
Regional focus: Southeast Asia
My principal research interests lie in exploring the significance of difference for social policy in European societies.
Japan, cultural expressions (literature, manga, anime, film), Murakami Haruki, Miyazaki Hayao, gender, eating disorders, self-harm, violence, character construction theory.
The project will explore how understandings of self and others is tranformed in everyday encounters
Chinese workers in the mainstream media
Affiliated Students
Danish Waste Management in Indonesia
India's Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS), a large welfare programme to ensure food security among India's poorest households.
"China Changing the World"
Democracy and Ethnic Conflicts in Myanmar/Burma