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, University of Oxford, with a Continuing Membership of Linacre College.

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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:

What's in a name? Gentænkning af genstandstekster på Pitt Rivers Museum (2022) in Jordens Folk
Nye roller for gamle ting: Etnografiske samlingers samtidsrelevans i en verden i forandring (2022)

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:

Diversifying Public Commemorations in Cape Town and Copenhagen (2023)
Ambivalent Art at the Tip of a Continent: The Zeitz MOCAA and its Quest for Global Recognition (2023)
In the absence of Rhodes: decolonizing South African universities (2021) in Ethnic and Racial Studies
Kunstbegrebets Koloniale Klassifikationer til forhandling på Museer i Sydafrika (2021) in Kulturstudier

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:

Er kvinder særligt skikkede til lovgivningsvirksomhed? 100-året for kvinders valgret (2016) in Nationalmuseets Arbejdsmark

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:

Museale formidlinger af fortiden som kolonimagt på danske og britiske museer (2017) in Slagmark

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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2024

Leeds Hoban Linacre / Huntington Exchange Fellowship

Awarded by Linacre College, University of Oxford, in support of my research project "Public Presentations of Plants – Communicating Collection Histories at the Huntington Botanical Gardens".

2023

JRF Grant

Awarded by Linacre College, University of Oxford, in support of my research stay at Musée du Quai Branly in Paris.

2023

Ludvig Preetzmann-Aggerholm og Hustrus Stiftelse

Awarded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in support of my research stay in Statens Legatbolig in Paris.

2023

Reid Music Prize

Awarded by Linacre College, University of Oxford, in appreciation of my contribution to the music community at Linacre College.

2022

San Cataldo Foundation

In support of my research stay at the San Cataldo Monastery on the Amalfi Coast.

2021-24

Carlsberg Foundation

In support of my postdoctoral research project "Decolonising Museums – Changing Curatorial Practices at the Pitt Rivers and Quai Branly" hosted by the Pitt Rivers Museum and Linacre College, University of Oxford.

2021-22

Dronning Ingrids Romerske Fond / Accademia di Danimarca

In support of two research stays at the Danish Academy in Rome to conduct fieldwork at Museo Delle Civiltà.

2018

Augustinus Foundation

In support of my research stay at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, during my PhD in Anthropology.

2016-2020

Danish Research Council

In support of my PhD and postdoctoral fellowships within the Sapere Aude research project "Global Europe: Constituting Europe from the outside in through artefacts" at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.

2015

Solar Foundation

In support of the fieldwork that I conducted in Danish and British museums for my MA thesis in Modern Culture at the University of Copenhagen.

2015

Travel Grant

Awarded by the Danish Association of MAs and PhDs in support of the fieldwork that I conducted for my MA thesis in Modern Culture at the University of Copenhagen.

2013

IARU-Santander Scholarship

In support of my attendance in the International Alliance of Research Universities Global Summer Program at the Australian National University, as part of my MA in Modern Culture at the University of Copenhagen.

2011-12

Knud Højgaards Foundation

In support of my MA in Museum Studies at University College London.

2011-12

Oticon Foundation

In support of my MA in Museum Studies at University College London.