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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.

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

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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

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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:

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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

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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)

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Curator of Public Programmes

National Museum of Denmark 2015-16

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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)

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MA in Museum Studies

Institute of Archaeology, University College London 2011-12

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BA in European Ethnology

Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen 2007-10

Funding and Awards

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