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

Both Karen Waltorp and Stine Krøijer have successfully completed UCPH’s Professor Promotion Programme and were unanimously assessed as highly qualified by an international committee consisting of Prof. Dr. Sahana Udupa (LMU Munich), Professor Matei Candea (University of Cambridge) and committee chair Professor Morten Axel Pedersen (UCPH).

Karen Waltorp has played a key role in establishing multimodal anthropology at the department through the elective Multimodal Anthropology: Audio-Visual and Digital Experimentation, the Multimodal Lab equipped with state-of-the-art tools, and her award-winning documentary work. She authored Why Muslim Women and Smartphones: Mirror Images (2020) and recently co-edited An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies (2023) and Energy Futures (2022). Karen leads research projects on digital everyday lives and energy citizenship in South Africa, coordinates the Techne network, and curates the Ethnographic Exploratory with numerous events.

Building on her monograph Figurations of the Future (2015), Stine Krøijer has developed a strong research profile in climate activism, ecological change, and governance of the green transition – in Denmark and the Amazon Basin. She co-edited a special issue of Environmental Humanities (2022) and leads projects on wildfires and collaborative land-use planning. For the past five years, Stine has been Deputy Head of Department with a focus on both collaboration and (currently) research as she chairs our department’s research committee. Prior to this, Stine was the department’s trade union representative for scientific staff for several years.

Head of Department Ayo Wahlberg says:

- Both professors have made outstanding contributions to the department, the faculty, and the international anthropological community. A big congratulations to both Karen and Stine – and to us. We look forward to their inaugural lectures.