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Post-Doc, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
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Currently I am involved in two research projects:
My postdoctoral research project entitled "Guests, refugees, colonists: medieval migration in the Baltic Sea region" focuses on medieval migration in the Baltic Sea region. Project includes three case studies: the 11th-12th century Slavic migration to the islands of Falster, Lolland and Møn (Denmark) following conflicts and the feudal pressure in the Slavic territories; the 12th-14th century Danish and Swedish settlement in Estonia initiated by the Baltic Crusades; and German urban settlement in 13th-15th century Kalmar (Sweden) related to the Hanseatic trade enterprises. The aim is to examine the character of medieval movements in the region, to scrutinize the social and cultural consequences of movements for both the immigrants and the host communities and to study medieval discourses of ‘otherness’ and ‘sameness’. Through the study of material culture, landscape and written sources the project will illuminate experiences, cultural practices and identities formed in the context of migration, and point out possible effects of migration on the relationships between human beings and the material world. This study will also address the ways in which medieval people dealt with and responded to migration. The goal is to illustrate that human resettlements were an important part of medieval development in the Baltic Sea region and to elaborate a methodology for approaching migration in the past.
The second research project "Sweden in the Delaware valley: everyday life and identities in the seventeenth century colony of New Sweden" is conducted with my colleagues at Lund University, Sweden.
This project will scrutinize the daily life in the colony of New Sweden (1638-1655) and shortly after its collapse from a historical archaeological perspective. The main focus is on the process of settling in and daily life in the colony, mechanisms of formation of cultural identities and the complexity of colonization as a process. In particular we are interested in: 1) the processes of migration, perception and settling in America and the ambiguities that arose between different settlers around the meaning and the function of the colony; 2) technological choices in vernacular architecture and their meaning for the construction of cultural identities; 3) aspects of interactions between the settlers and the Native Americans and the ways material culture of both European and Native origin was exchanged, interpreted and used by these diverse groups.
