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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, Research Fellow at Linacre College and Academic Visitor at the Department of the History of Art at the University of Oxford.

 

Elected Member of the Young Academy at the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters from 2025-30. 

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Postdoctoral Researcher and Principal Investigator of the research project Passion or Politics? The art collecting practices of Carl Jacobsen in a socioeconomic and cultural political context 1878-1914 funded by the Ny Carlsberg Foundation

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen (2024-27) with affiliations to the University of Oxford as Associate Researcher at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Research Fellow at Linacre College, and Academic Visitor at the Department of the History of Art. 

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

Pitt Rivers Museum with Junior Research Fellowship at Linacre College, University of Oxford (2021-24)                                      

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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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