Vilde Fastvold Thorbjørnsen

Academic interests

• Medical anthropology
• Political anthropology
• Marginalization
• Social inequality
• Labor
• Health and migration
• Regional focus: Norway, Caribbean

Courses taught

Seminar Leader:

• SOSANT1400 - Anthropology and religion
• SOSANT2000 - Central themes in contemporary anthropology
• SOSANT2550 - Medical Anthropology
• MED1100 - Medisinstudiet, modul 1

Lecturer:

• INTHE4113 - Introduction to Medical Anthropology: key concepts and perspectives
• INTHE4016 - Qualitative Methods
• INTHE4014 - Migration and Health
• MF9010 - Introductory course to the medical PhD programme, INTRO I

Background

• MA Social Anthropology, University of Oslo 2011
• Columbia University, USA, 2009
• BA Social Anthropology, BA Archaeology, University of Oslo, 2009