News

Appointment

2026.08.28

Two tenure-track assistant professors appointed to the Department of Anthropology

Since 1 July and 1 August, the department has been enriched by the appointment of no fewer than two…

2026.08.27

The Hall of Mirrors: Spying, Surveillance and Ethnographic Method

Assistant Professor Trine Mygind Korsby and Associate Professor Matthew Carey have co-edited a…

2026.08.27

Caring Surveillance: Ambiguities of fieldwork in a criminal landscape in Eastern Romania

Assistant Professor Trine Mygind Korsby has published an article in The Cambridge Journal of…

Research

2026.08.03

When the green transition hits the backyard: New research project to strengthen democratic ownership

We broadly support the green transition. But when it changes our landscape, our daily lives, or our…

2026.05.19

Narrowing Horizons: Contingencies, coping practices and conflict handling among South Sudanese refugees after aid cuts

A new report from the PARTOCA team at the Danish Refugee Council, in collaboration with the…

2026.04.28

Solidarity at a distance: Denmark’s migration-development nexus in policy and practice

Associate Professor Anja Simonsen has, together with Jesper Bjarnesen and Frowin Rausis published…

Organisation

2026.04.16

Sociology and anthropology to be merged into a single department

The Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences has decided to initiate a process to merge the Departmen…

2026.03.30

A shifting narrative: Perspectives on human trafficking, crisis, and time among minors who are victims of human trafficking

Assistant Professor Trine Mygind Korsby has published the article ‘A shifting narrative:…

Nightlife

2026.03.04

Young people fear drugging in nightlife – but almost never report it

Young people – especially women – increasingly fear being drugged, and the phenomenon is more…

Appointment

2025.12.03

Karen Waltorp and Stine Krøijer appointed professors at the Department of Anthropology

As of November 2025, Karen Waltorp and Stine Krøijer both hold titles of professors following UCPH’…

Awards

2025.12.01

Green Neighbourhood Communities receives the Royal Couple’s Community Award and the Nordic Council Environment Prize

Green Neighbourhood Communities (Grønne Nabofællesskaber) mobilises through activities such as…

Crime

2025.11.28

New national research centre to advance knowledge on crime and justice

The Centre for Global Criminology at the Department of Anthropology is being expanded into a new…

2025.11.24

Youths, Media and Performance: How Young People Remember Violent Pasts

Associate Professor Birgit Bräuchler and Research Fellow at Leipzig University Sina Emde have edite…

2025.11.10

Gameful Relating: How young offenders gain agency in criminal rehabilitation and restorative justice

Assistant Professor Trine Mygind Korsby has, together with Clara Rosa Sandbye, published the articl…

Award

2025.10.15

Ida Vandsøe Madsen is Teacher of the Year 2025 at the Department of Anthropology

Ida is recognised as Teacher of the Year 2025.

Grant

2025.09.22

New grant for research project on cervical cancer among female migrant workers in the global south

Associate Professor Anja Simonsen and Professor Tine Gammeltoft from the Department of Anthropology…

2025.09.11

Resonant Ethnography: Understanding the World Through Writing

New Book by Helle Bundgaard and Anne Line Dalsgård

2025.08.19

Opposition by Imitation: The Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia Activism

New book by Assistant Professor Christina Jerne

2025.08.13

Measuring MAN (incorporating JRAI): Computational anthropological analysis and quantitative speculation

Associate Professor Kristoffer Albris and Professor Morten Axel Pedersen have contributed to this…

Award

2025.07.09

Atreyee Sen is awarded the MSc in Global Development Teaching Prize

Congratulations to Professor Atreyee Sen for receiving the MSc in Global Development Teaching Prize…