New Director for LNUC Concurrences

Liv Nilsson Stutz is a professor of archaeology with training from Lund University (BA in archaeology), Université de Toulouse II (Licence d’historie de l’art), Université Bordeaux I (Maîtrise and DEA in anthropology and prehistory), and a PhD in archaeology from Lund University (2004). After her PhD she worked as a lecturer in cultural anthropology at Emory University (USA) before taking a position at Linnaeus University in 2018. Her work focuses on mortuary practices, and she combines archaeological methods with ritual theory, body theory and practice theory to explore and understand the human response to death and the dead body across time (from the stone age and to today). She has worked extensively on issues relating to human remains, professional ethics, repatriation and care for human remains in collections and research, and is an active debater in her field on issues such as decolonization, feminist perspectives, interdisciplinarity and academic culture. She enjoys collaboration with artists and considers herself a political thinker and a transdisciplinary scholar. As a leader of LNUC Concurrences, she is looking forward to continuing to build on the interdisciplinary strengths of the centre and explore new and exciting opportunities in the coming years.