I am a professor of ethnology who shares my time between Stockholm University and the Nordic museum. At the university I supervise and teach on all levels of ethnology, on courses in the masters program for environmental humanities, and within the bachelor's program for museums and cultural heritage. Ongoing multi-disciplinary research project, funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, concerns life with forest loss in various parts of Sweden and is carried out in collaboration with Linköping University. At the Nordic museum I hold the Hallwyl professorship with research and scientific support to the museum´s collections and knowledge production.

I serve as expert advisor for the national work with the Unesco list of immaterial cultural heritage. I am a working member of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for folk culture in Sweden and one of the editors of ARV: Yearbook of Nordic Folklore. Editorial committees for the journals RIG: Kulturhistorisk tidskrift, Nordic museology. Member of the Museum university forum within Civis.

My research interests concern expressive cultural and media forms with emphasis on the interplay between ritual, material and narrative and in particular questions of memory processes in contexts characterized by colonial history and environmental change. The development of methods for curation and multi-disciplinary research is another issue close to my heart.

I have participated in several international and long-standing collaborations that involved collective research, teaching, artistic and curatorial activities, including a focus on ethnographic museums' colonial heritage in Europe (RIME and SWICH). I have contributed in various roles to just over ten exhibitions. At the Museum of Ethnography (Stockholm), where I was appointed museum director 2014-16, for example the permanent exhibition The Storage and the traveling exhibitions Fetish Modernity and Kongosspår (Traces of Congo). At the Nordic museum I was scientifically responsible for multidisciplinary collaboration between the Nordic Museum and Stockholm University on the theme of the Arctic in the light of climate change (2016-19).