Fürst, Elisabeth L'orange - Professor

Education: Mag. art. in Sociology University of Oslo,1980; Dr. polit. Universityof Oslo,1994

Postions held: Research assistant at SIFO 1981-84. Researcher at NAVFs utredningsinstitutt 1985-88. Research Fellow and Associate professor at Department of Sociology, UiO 1988-95. Researcher at Department of Sociology, University of Uppsala 1996-97 . Associate Professor in an interdisiplinarian position at the Department of Social Anthropology, UiO 1997- 2001, Professor 2001 -

Fürst has conducted fieldwork in Norway, Scandinavia and Moldova. She is presently working with two projects:

• Four generations of women - life story narratives & everyday life in postsoviet Moldova.
• Food habits and everyday life in two postsoviet countries - a comparative focus on Russia and Moldova. With Marianne Ekström, Universitetet i Göteborg.
• Feminism as critique. A study of students at University of Oslo. With Beatrice Halsaa

Areas of research:

• Thematic: : gender, food, body, identity, subjectivity, rationality, feminist theory, epistemology, modernity, gifts and commodities.
• Regional: : Norway, Scandinavia, Moldova, eastern Europe.

Publications:

• Publications in the research database ForskDok
• Publications in the library database Bibsys

Department of Social Anthropology
Postal address: P. O. box 1091 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway
Visiting address: Eilert Sundts house, 6th floor, Moltke Moes vei 31
Tlf: 22856526, Fax: 22854502, [direct telephone]
e.l.furst@sai.uio.no

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