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Vibe Nielsen

Postdoctoral Researcher with international work experience gained through academic, curatorial and educational positions in museums, universities and cultural organisations.

Affiliated with the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Associate Researcher at the Pitt Rivers Museum and Research Fellow at Linacre College, University of Oxford. 

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Postdoctoral Researcher in the Passion eller Politik? Carl Jacobsens kunstsamling i en socioøkonomisk og kulturpolitisk kontekst 1878-1914 funded by the Ny Carlsberg Foundation

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen 2024-27

Postdoctoral Researcher in the Decolonising Museums: Changing Curatorial Practices at the Pitt Rivers and Quai Branly research project, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation

Pitt Rivers Museum and Linacre College, University of Oxford 2021-24                                                                                           Main publications:

Postdoctoral Researcher in the Global Europe: Constituting Europe from the outside in through artefacts research project, funded by the Danish Research Council

Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen 2019-20

Main publications:

PhD Fellow in the Global Europe: Constituting Europe from the outside in through artefacts research project, funded by the Danish Research Council

Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen 2016-19

PhD thesis: Demanding Recognition: Curatorial Challenges in the Exhibition of Art from South Africa (2019)

Curator of Public Programmes

National Museum of Denmark 2015-16

Main publication:

MA in Modern Culture

Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen 2013-15

MA thesis: Museale Formidlinger af Fortiden som Kolonimagt: En komparativ analyse af, hvordan danske og britiske museer formidler den internationale kolonihandel og dens nutidige konsekvenser (2015)

Main publication:

MA in Museum Studies

Institute of Archaeology, University College London 2011-12

BA in European Ethnology

Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen 2007-10

Funding and Awards

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