Dr. Katarina Saltzman

Biography

Katarina Saltzman has been active at the Department of Cultural Conservation as a researcher and educator since 2010. Since 2013, she has served as the director of studies for the PhD program in Cultural Conservation. Katarina is an ethnologist and landscape researcher whose research interests encompass the landscapes of both rural and urban settings, focusing particularly on the boundaries and interactions between city and countryside as well as nature and culture. Currently, she is primarily involved in the research project 'Rötter rörelse: Cultural Heritage at the Garden Markets', funded by the Swedish Research Council from 2017 to 2020, in collaboration with Carina Sjöholm from Lund University and Tina Westerlund from the Department of Cultural Conservation at GU. She is also participating in the research project 'Movement Heritage: Sustainable and Inclusive Heritage Management', financed by the Swedish National Heritage Board in partnership with Sverker Sörlin at KTH and Daniel Svensson from Chalmers. Katarina received her PhD in Ethnology from Lund University in 2001 and has held various positions at the Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg. She was a visiting scholar at the School of Geography, University of Melbourne in the fall of 2018.

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