Staff

Centre Director

Mette Birkedal Bruun

Director of PRIVACY, Professor of Church History, University of Copenhagen, DK.
 
My research focuses on religious dimensions of the dynamic between withdrawal from the world and engagement with the world. I have worked extensively on medieval and Early Modern monasticism as well as on the interaction between monastic and lay devotion in Early Modern France.
 
E-mail: mbb@teol.ku.dk 
Room: 5C.0.21

Centre Administration

Maj Riis Poulsen

Head of Administration.

Maj works in close collaboration with the Centre Director to ensure efficient planning and execution of the center's strategic projects. Maj’s work includes communication with relevant stakeholders, funding organizations, and public bodies. She is responsible for maintaining an overview of all activities at the centre, for example finances, recruitments, visitors, collaborations, applications and research reports.

E-mail: mrp@teol.ku.dk
Room 5C.0.26

Beate Skakkebæk Lindegaard 

Assistant editor

Beate works primarily with the Privacy Studies Journal where she am involved in every step of the publication process: from selection of articles to editing, layout and communication. As assistant editor of an interdisciplinary journal, she works actively with knowledge brokering, trying to bridge the gaps between different fields of knowledge and methodological approaches. She also participate in the coordination of other publications and events at the centre.

E-mail: beatel@teol.ku.dk

Emma Klakk Christensen

Scientific assistant and assistant editor

Emma is assistant editor of the centre’s research journal Privacy Studies Journal. In this role, she secures a meaningful and professional workflow of the review and publication process. This task involves communicating and collaborating with authors, reviewers, the editorial board, copy editors etc. Furthermore, she assists the administrative team at the centre with communication tasks.

In addition, she is the editor of the research project STAY HOME: The Home during the Corona Crisis – and after at Centre for Privacy Studies. Emma communicates results, activities, and insights from the research group and plans events such as conferences, seminars, and workshops.

E-mail: emma.klakk@teol.ku.dk
Room: 5C.0.09

Gilbert Semma Skytte

Intern and Student assistant 

Intern, affiliated with the research theme Belief. Gilbert is a bachelor student in philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, currently in his 5th semester. He investigates the relationship between the aesthetic and freedom in Letters upon the Aesthetic education of man by Friedrich Schiller. His work is motivated by the historical connection between the Schimmelmann and Schiller families and aims to support Bastian Felter Vaucanson's research on the Schimmelmann family and their involvement in the slave trade. Gilbert’s focus is to highlight the philosophical arguments in Friedrich Schiller’s Letters upon the Aesthetic education of man.

Student Assistant, Gilbert also assists with administrative work such as the centre's website, as well as practical tasks regarding the planning and execution of events at the centre. 

E-mail: pnz902@teol.ku.dk
Room 5C.0.26

Julie Hedebo Nielsen

Student assistant 

Julie is a master´s student in theology at the University of Copenhagen. Julie assists with administrative work such as the centre's website, as well as practical tasks regarding the planning and execution of events at the centre. 

E-mail: plj645@teol.ku.dk
Room 5C.0.26 

Marta Bo Strandgaard

Student assistant 

Marta assists with administrative work such as the centre's website, as well as practical tasks regarding the planning and execution of events at the centre. 

E-mail: kwv940@teol.ku.dk
Room 5C.0.26

Core Scholars

Annabel Brett

Professor in History of Political Thought, University of Cambridge, UK.

I am a specialist in the history of political thought from the late middle ages to the mid-seventeenth century. My research includes the scholastic, humanist and Protestant natural law traditions, political Aristotelianism, and Early Modern understandings of international law.

E-mail: asb21@cam.ac.uk 

Philippe Cocatre-Zilgien

Professor of Legal History, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, FR.

My research focuses on Roman Law.

E-mail: pccz@wanadoo.fr 

Maarten Delbeke

Professor of History and Theory of Architecture, ETH, Zurich, CH.

My research focuses on the history of architectural theory from the Early Modern period up to the present. I am particularly interested in how architecture is conceived as a medium, and how this conception informs the legitimation of architecture as a cultural practice.

Peter Thule Kristensen

Professor of History of Architecture, Department of Architecture, Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation (KADK), Copenhagen, DK. My area of research is in the history of architecture, and in particular the early modern notions of privacy and how architects apply notions of history in architecture, both conceptually and materially. I am also Head of Interdisciplinary Teaching in Architecture across departments.

Room: 5C.0.07

Karen Lauterbach

Associate Professor, Director at Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen

PhD. (2009), MA. (2000) in International Development Studies, Roskilde University

My research focuses on lived religion, perceptions of wealth and power and urban history in Africa – primarily Uganda and Ghana. In my recent publications, I have examined Christianity, trust, sites of wealth and power and urban spaces in Ghana, as a way to understand the relationship between history, the everydayness of religion and urban infrastructures. Furthermore, I teach core courses on Religion, Culture and Society in Africa, thematic courses on Religion, Popular Culture and the Media and supervise master theses on the African Studies programme at UCPH.

I look forward to focusing on questions related to social, spatial and religious dynamics between individuals and communities with the notion of privacy as an analytical category and to explore ways in which African cases, contexts and knowledges nuance the historic notions of privacy that the Centre has focused on so far.

E-mail: kjl@teol.ku.dk

Scientific Staff

Francis Ethelbert Kwabena Benyah

Assistant Professor in African Studies at the Centre of African Studies and Centre for Privacy Studies.

My scholarly pursuits primarily revolve around Religion and Culture in West Africa, with a specific focus on exploring the intricate and multifaceted relationship between Religion and Culture in the region. In addition, I also engage in research pertaining to Privacy Studies. Specifically, I have a profound interest in examining the dynamic interplay between religion, culture, memory, and privacy at former slave castles and forts in Ghana. Furthermore, my research extends to the investigation of privacy and health concerns in both Christian and indigenous forms of healing in West Africa.

E-mail: frbe@teol.ku.dk
Room: 5C.0.08
Hannah Katharina Hjorth

PhD Fellow

MA (2023) in History, University of Copenhagen

In this PhD project I investigate how slavery intersected with privacy among free people of color in the Caribbean from 1750-1850. By focusing on free families of color in the free ports on Curaçao, St. Barthélemy and St. Thomas, my aim is to answer the question of how a structural, societal practice like slavery impacted, changed, and challenged family relations among free people of color. I am interested in investigating the friction slavery caused in intimate relations and how this shaped privacy in the colonial Caribbean.

E-mail: hkh@teol.ku.dk
Room: 5C.0.16

Søren Frank Jensen

Postdoctoral Researcher 

PhD, Cand.theol., UCPH

My research revolves around notions of privacy in early modern biblical interpretation. My PhD project centres on Nikolaus Selnecker’s (1530-92) commentaries on the Book of Psalms and explores ideals of the Christian life for secular authorities and their subjects, prescribed public and private devotion, and Biblical interpretation as a mode of spiritual direction. I also study funeral sermons, postils and catechisms. 
 
E-mail: sfj@teol.ku.dk
Room: 5C.0.19
Natacha Klein Käfer

Assistant Professor

BA in History at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria; MA in Religious Studies Universität Erfurt; PhD in Early Modern History at Freie Universität Berlin/University of Kent.

My research focuses on popular knowledge and attempts to control it in the Early Modern period. I will look into how popular healing knowledge survived in the private sphere despite the efforts to suppress these practices, paying particular attention to the relationship between popular healing and “official” medical knowledge, witch trials, and the legal framing of healing practices.

E-mail: nkk@teol.ku.dk
Room: 5C.0.10
Natalie Patricia Körner

Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Academy

Architecture history and theory - with a focus on interiors, (digital) archives and spatial imaginaries - form the core of my research. I also teach at the Master’s program Spatial Design at the Institute of Architecture and Design, which engages with history, anthropology, tectonics and materiality as research and design tools.

E-mail: npk@teol.ku.dk
Room: 5C.0.20

Johannes Ljungberg 

Associate Professor at Linköping University

PhD in History, Sweden’s National Graduate School of History, Lund University 2017; Assistant Professor, Linnæus University 2018–2020; Editor-in-chief, 1700-tal: Nordic Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2020–

My research at PRIVACY focuses on urban community and co-existence in the centre’s case studies on late seventeenth-century Helmstedt and eighteenth century Altona. More precisely, I investigate conflicts involving notions of privacy in relation to protection of private conversations, public regulation of urban spaces and social relations, and intrusions in private and semi-public rooms and houses. I am also focusing on how the results of the research program relate to grand theories regarding the public and the private as well as different processes of privatisation and state intervention along the early modern period.

E-mail: jbl@teol.ku.dk 
Room: 5C.0.14

Alexander M. K. Mkandawire

PhD Fellow

MA (2024) in Theology, University of Copenhagen

My PhD project explores the ways in which notions of belief and privacy were exchanged in early-modern missionary encounters. Focusing on Greenland, I engage with detailed studies of diaries, letter correspondences, different types of devotional texts, such as psalms and hymns as well as the writing and “re”-writing of tales from the Greenlandic oral story telling tradition. My aim is to open new perspectives on the cultural/ colonial encounter between the Greenlandic Inuit and missionaries representing both the Danish mission as well as the mission of the Unitas Fratrum.

E-mail: amkm@teol.ku.dk
Room: 5C.0.19

Hui-Yi Yang

PhD fellow

MA (2023) in Architecture, the Master’s Programme Spatial Design, Royal Danish Academy– Architecture, Design, Conservation (KADK)

My PhD project focuses on architectural history and light in architecture. My research is a comparative case study of sleeping and death rituals within the bed(room) at home. I aim to investigate the spatial environment for sleeping and death, and to examine how the light/darkness phenomena is shaped and its relation to privacy. The cases include the bed within the Siraya Ethnicity's House in Formosa (now Taiwan) during Dutch colonization (1624 to 1662) and the bed box of Rembrandt’s House during the residency of Rembrandt’s wife, Saskia (1639-1642).

E-mail: hyy@teol.ku.dk
Room: 5C.0.19

José María Martín Humanes 

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen.

My research focuses on the history of privacy and intimacy in the early modern Hispanic world, with particular attention to subaltern groups and ethno-religious minorities. Drawing on judicial, ecclesiastical, and administrative sources, as well as private correspondence and treatises, my work explores how individuals and communities negotiated visibility, secrecy, and everyday practices of resistance under regimes of moral, legal, and religious regulation.

E-mail: jmmh@teol.ku.dk
Room: 5C-0-14

Felicia Jantina Fricke

Assistant Professor

‘Racialized Motherhood’ project

My research in this history project focuses on the decisions that enslaved women, particularly pregnant women and mothers with children, had to make when running from slavery in the eastern Caribbean between the 1770s and 1870s. To do this, I am using a large dataset of fugitive advertisements from eastern Caribbean colonial newspapers in English, Dutch, French, and Spanish. My academic background is in the history, archaeology, and osteology of slavery in the Caribbean and my other research interests include free women’s role in colonialism; print culture; and ethics.

E-mail: fefr@hum.ku.dk
Room: 10-1-15

Angana Moitra

Assistant Professor of English at O.P. Jindal Global University, India.

At PRIVACY, she has joined "Secrets to patents: Trans-Imperial Strategies for Keeping Medicines as Private Assets form 1500 to 1900", a collaborative project between Lund University (Sweden), the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), and Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (Brazil), as postdoctoral researcher. As part of this project, Angana will focus on the colonial appropriation of indigenous medicinal knowledge and its repackaging as the 'scientific' discourse of pharmacology in British-ruled India.

Trained as a medievalist and early modernist, Angana's work typically focuses on the literary and historical culture of the British Isles between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, although she is currently expanding the scope of her research to include colonial history. She completed her PhD on the Erasmus Mundus TEEME (Text and Event in Early Modern Europe) doctoral programme where she was jointly based at the University of Kent (UK) and Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). She has extensive  publishing and editorial experience, and her monograph (titled The Evolution of the Fairy King: From medieval Romance to Early Modern Prose, Poetry and Drama) is currently under peer review with Palgrave Macmillan.

Room: 5C.0.08

Affiliated Scholars

Martin Almbjär

Postdoctoral Researcher

My academic interests range from diplomatic history in the Mediterranean in the eighteenth century to the development of the informal and formal credit markets in Sweden and Finland the early twentieth century. I have a penchant for mixing social, economic, political and administrative history in my research as I think that particular mix yields the most interesting results. The proportions vary from project to project.

I defended my thesis in 2016. It's topic is petitions submitted to the Age of Liberty Riksdag and their role in furthering political inclusion to groups that weren't represented in the Riksdag. I also investigate the role norms and administrative limitations played in shaping the interaction between the Riksdag and the petitioners, using March and Olsen's institutional theories on the Logic of Appropriateness. You can find the thesis here.

I am currently writing a book on Swedish diplomatic practices in eighteenth century Spain with a focus on the Swedish consuls in the port towns of Cadiz, Malaga, Alicante, Barcelona and in the port towns of Galicia. I am interested in the consular practices and how consuls executed their office in combination with the private business enterprises. The relationship between the consuls' public duties and their private affairs are yet to be studied in a Swedish context.

E-mail: mar@teol.ku.dk

Rebecca Arnheim

Postdoctoral researcher

My research focuses on the History of Art from the Italian early modern period. I am particularly interested in collecting practices and the agency of spaces during the sixteenth century. My current project stems from my doctoral dissertation. It examines the creation, exchange, collection, and display of portrait drawings in Italy from the mid-fifteenth century to the late sixteenth century. The intimate nature of the portrait drawing requires a more private display and reception, a facade I explore in my work.

Sara Ayres

Visiting Fellow

Sara Ayres obtained her doctorate from Birkbeck College, London, in 2012 with a thesis on the way in which Gustav Klimt's paintings were hung in women collectors' private domestic spaces, and then photographed and published within architectural journals (Oxford Art Journal, 2014). Between 2016 and 2018 she was the Queen Margarethe II Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Portrait Gallery in London, working on cultural transfer within the portraits of Danish-British consorts. In 2019 she was awarded a travel grant from the Paul Mellon Centre to study the reception of William Hogarth's prints in Denmark, specifically their display in print rooms inhabited by Caroline Mathilde af Storbritannien and Kristian VII at Hirschholm and Christiansborg Palaces. At the Centre for Privacy Studies she will be working on the Luxdorph Samling collection of pamphlets in the Royal Danish Library. She has edited collections on sculptural transfer between Norden and Europe (Sculpture and the Nordic Region, Ashgate, 2017) and on Danish-British consorts (The Court Historian, 2019). Her article on Anna of Denmark's British portraiture is forthcoming this year in the Journal for the Historians of Netherlandish Art.

E-mail: saa@teol.ku.dk
Room: 5C.0.09

Jelena Bakic

Her main research interests lie in the field of Italian Renaissance, marginal writings, history of emotions, querelle des femmes, and privacy studies. She gained a joint PhD degree in early modern European literature and cultural history from the University of Porto, Portugal and Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic, completed within the TEEME programme (Text and Event in Early Modern Europe). At the moment, she is a virtual research fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions School of Humanities - the University of Western Australia. Under supervision of dr. Diana Barnes, she works on dedicatory epistles and history emotions in Renaissance, arguing for the importance of analysis of female and male authored dedicatory epistles in the context of history of emotions. Recently, she obtained one month visiting professorship at the University of Bologna, where she works under supervision of Prof. Patrizia Caraffi, on querelle des femmes and history of emotions. Apart from this, she is an integrated researcher within the CITCEM – the transdisciplinary research centre “Culture, Space and Memory”, at the University of Porto, and a member of the project “Men for Women. Voces Masculinas en la Querella de las Mujeres” at the University of Sevilla.  

Liam Benison

BA (Honours) in English and MA in Early Medieval English Literature, University of Melbourne; PhD in Early Modern Literature, University of Kent and the University of Porto. Postdoctoral researcher, Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS), University of Porto.

My research investigates the meaning of early modern privacy through utopian literature. I am interested in how ideals of abolishing private property and achieving social harmony through surveillance conflict with ideal values of selfhood in utopian texts. I examine the texts' links to the intellectual discourse on privacy and related concepts of dissimulation, deceit, secrets, and silence. I also study the architectures and spatiality of the private and public in utopian visions, the emotions associated with the protection of personal knowledge, and the construction of knowledge about people and places as the discovery of secrets.

Thomas Lyngby

Visiting scholar, Ph.D., senior researcher.

MA in History and Danish from the University of Copenhagen. Ph.D. in History from Aarhus University (translated title of thesis: Ways of Habitation. Arrangement, Life, Atmosphere end Mental Life in Urban Houses of the Upper Classes 1570-1870)  

I am working on a book about the manor house Ledreborg, which reflects the most exquisite Danish building, interior and garden art of the mid-18th century. The book will cover how the manor was used in everyday life and on festive occasions, including how public and private spheres could be mixed and separated. I have also researched in Dano-Norwegian absolutism and its ceremonies, national identity and many other topics related to Danish and European cultural history c. 1500-1900.  

E-mail: tly@teol.ku.dk
Room: 5C.0.9

Ivana Bicak

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ivana Bicak works on the literary reception of anatomical and medical experiments in early modern Europe. She is officially based at the University of Exeter, where she is currently pursuing a Wellcome-funded research project on satires of experimental medicine in early modern Spain.

E-mail: ivb@teol.ku.dk
David Lebovitch Dahl

Affiliated researcher

Ph.D. in History, EUI; Cand.Mag. Italian, UCPH.

E-mail: dld@teol.ku.dk

Fabio Gigone

Affiliated researcher, PhD 

M.Arch., Università Iuav di Venezia My research focuses on the relationship between power and architecture in the Early Modern period. I am focusing on the architectural apparatuses deployed in Versailles, which defined the court and a new idea of privacy within the Louis XIV’s kingdom between 1682 and 1715. My research will consider a wide range of archival sources and will produce an autonomous body of design investigations based on the drawing tool. 

E-mail: fgi@teol.ku.dk 

Nuno Grancho

Affiliated researcher
Postdoctoral Researcher, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow

Architecture, University of Coimbra. Planning and Urban Design, University of Porto. PhD in Architecture and Urbanism, University of Coimbra.

Nuno Grancho is an architect, researcher, teacher, and historian of objects, buildings, cities, and landscapes. His work studies how spatial practices of power and resistance through architectures and cities of struggle shape the modernity and coloniality of South Asia from the early 16th century to the present day.

His research projects are focused on questions of human and material agency, the epistemology and geopolitics of architecture and urbanism as a technique of social intervention.

Of particular importance to his work and writings are the spatial-morphological arrangements in architecture and cities that identify and enable the private as withdrawal from the world and the public as engagement with that same world and simultaneously, the tension between these dichotomies.

From September 2021 until August 2024, he was a Postdoctoral researcher and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Centre for Privacy Studies, with the research project “Privacy on the move: two-way Processes, Data and Legacy of Danish metropolitan and colonial Architecture and Urbanism”.

E-mail: nuno.grancho@teol.ku.dk

Anni Haahr Henriksen

Affiliated researcher

PhD in History, University of Copenhagen. MPhil in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Cambridge University. MA in English and History, University of Copenhagen.

At the Centre for Privacy Studies, my work focuses on the mind as an inward private sphere in Elizabethan England (1558-1603). My work is multi-disciplinary, as I draw on legal, religious, political, and literary sources in order to trace the developing vocabulary related to a privacy of the mind emerging in the period. More specifically, I draw on the legislation of the Court of High Commission, the Edwardian and Elizabethan Homilies, the works of William Perkins and Justus Lipsius, and William Shakespeare’s long narrative poem The Rape of Lucrece.

The PhD thesis is now available online: https://teol.ku.dk/Forskning/publikationer/

Jesper Jakobsen

Affiliated researcher

Researcher at Division of Book History, Department of Arts and Culture, Lund University.

BA and MA in History, University of Copenhagen 2009; Ph.D. in History, University of Copenhagen 2017.

My research focuses on Print Culture and the practical implementation of urban regulation in eighteenth-century Scandinavia with a particular interest in the urban centres printing hubs of Copenhagen and Altona. This includes the social consequenses of the introduction of professional police forces, and the societal impact of increased production, dissemination, and commercialization of printed texts.

I curently work on a project called “The Scoundrel Years: Scandinavian impudence of the press and print industry, c. 1760-1800”. The project is funded by the Swedish Research Council.

E-mail: jesper.jakobsen@teol.ku.dk

Christine Jeanneret

Professor Emerita

I am a musicologist and an associate professor at the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen and Rosenborg Castle. My research focuses on early modern music, sound studies and aural history, with a particular interest for performance and staging, soundscapes and gender studies. I have held several positions and fellowships in Europe (University of Geneva, École française de Rome, University of Copenhagen, Centre de recherche du château de Versailles) and at leading institutions in the United States (Yale and Columbia Universities). My research has a wide impact, notably through my collaboration with several early music ensembles, and more recently with museums, in order to convey and share research in the unique forms of performance and exhibitions. In 2017 I was awarded Queen Margrethe II’s Rome prize for my outstanding research. I am currently working as a writer, sound artist and curator, preparing an innovative immersive soundscapes exhibition at Rosenborg Castle (opening in March 2025).

E-mail: christine.jeanneret@teol.ku.dk

Sanne Maekelberg

Affiliated researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher at the research section of History, Theory, and Criticism of the Department of Architecture, University of Leuven (KU Leuven)PhD in architectural engineering, University of Leuven (KU Leuven)My research focuses on Early Modern court architecture and the itinerant lifestyle of the nobility. As an architectural engineer I combine approaches from architectural history with an interest in digital visualization techniques, especially digital reconstructions and mapping.

E-mail: sma@teol.ku.dk

Asta Mønsted

Affiliated researcher 

Assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

PhD (2022), MA (2016) and BA (2013) in Prehistoric Archaeology at the SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen.

My research focuses on the archaeological remains, embedded worldviews and oral histories of the Greenlandic Inuit. At the Center for Privacy, I am investigating how the Greenlandic Inuit of the 19th century navigated the public and private spheres using filtered searches based on selected keywords. The primary sources for this study are orally transmitted stories collected in Greenland from 1735 to 1900 A.D.

E-mail: 

Katrine Mølgaard

MA in Philosophy and Danish

My academic interests centre on well-being, welfare, and psychiatry, with a particular focus on how privacy is experienced and negotiated within welfare contexts—especially in the dynamics between the public sphere and the individual. Recently, I have investigated the experiences of cohabiting relatives of individuals receiving home-based elderly care, as part of an interdisciplinary research project at the Royal Danish Academy.

During my studies, I developed a strong interest in perception and aesthetics. My thesis examined new materialist tendencies in contemporary philosophy of science, with particular attention to how the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze may be read as a precursor to these developments.

E-mail: kam@teol.ku.dk

Sari Nauman

Affiliated researcher

Senior Lecturer and Docent in history at the University of Gothenburg and Pro Futura Scientia XVII Fellow at Swedish Collegium of Advanced Studies, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

PhD in History, University of Gothenburg

My research focuses on Early Modern political culture, specifically relations of trust and uncertainty. Previously, I have studied the dwindling usage of political oaths, private relationships in diplomatic culture, and hospitality towards strangers. Currently, I am investigating refugee reception and internal displacement in the early eighteenth century, and during my time at the centre, I will especially focus on issues of solitude and precariousness.

The Swedish Research Council has previously (2020-2022) funded Sari Nauman's research, the title of that project is 'Hidden rebellions: Information control in Sweden, 1680-1720'.

E-mail: sna@teol.ku.dk

Carlos R. Ruano

EdD, MIS, M.S.

 Dr. Carlos Ruano is a Policy Research Expert with subject matter expertise on Digital Transformation in International Development. He is a recipient of the University of Toronto Distinguished Service Award for Global Education. Carlos experience includes 12 years as Senior Policy Manager with the Canadian Federal Government. In addition, he served as Program and Policy Specialist at the World Bank, the World Food Program, the International Labor Organization and UNESCO. His areas of research includes comparative digital innovation and policy change, privacy rights and data safeguards. He is also interested in digital policy controls in the context of border crossings. He is widely published in the areas of technology and cross-cultural psychology, language rights and digital change, learning outcomes and nutritional interventions, food security and educational resilience as well as the socioeconomic impacts of higher education institutions in bilingual contexts.

Carlos holds a Doctorate in Sociology and Policy Studies in Education from the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). He also holds a Master of Information Science from the University of Ottawa, and a Master of Science in Human Development from Georgia State University. He has been visiting faculty member with institutions in the US, Colombia and the Netherlands where he advised Masters and Doctoral students in the areas of digital policy, research methods, enquiry-based learning and the study or archives as sources of technological construction of privacy and information management.

Carlos has been lived and worked on every continent except Australia. He is fluent in English, French and Spanish. In his spare time, Carlos enjoys tennis, hiking and Maya Epigraphy. 

For additional information regarding Carlos’s personal and professional journey, please see:

Oskar Jacek Rojewski

Postdoctoral Researcher

BA in History and Art History at the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland); MA in Cultural Heritage and Art History at the University of Valencia; PhD in Art History at University Jaume I and the University of Valencia; visiting fellow at Université Catholique de Louvain; assistant professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice.

He finished a postdoctoral stay at the University of Copenhagen, working on the Early Modern collections History with funding from The Generalitat Valenciana: subventions for the postdoctoral training APOSTD 2019 with the project “Private and public in the Cabinet of curiosities during the 16th Century”.

Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow at the University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, working on the mobility of Flemish court painters between Early Modern European courts

Solmaz Sadeghi

Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher at the Royal Danish Academy (IBD) and ETH Zurich (gta).

M.Arch., Ph.D. in History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano (AUIC). Thesis: Homo-Tech Wall, the evolution of the civic wall in the Tectonic Culture since 1850.

My research field lies within Architectural Construction and the City. In my current research, IBridge, I focus on early modern Inhabitable Bridges, walled-off paths, and gated communities to reveal the emergence of public privacy beyond the privatization of paths. IBridge focuses on Old London Bridge and the Pont de Notre Dame in Paris at the intersection of architecture and public policy, to analyze how privacy performs in the public realm far from private spaces. 

Parallel to my research, I currently teach at the Master Programme of Spatial Design at the Royal Danish Academy, where public privacy is embodied in shared interiors with tectonics.

At PRIVACY, IBridge relates to studies of early modern European law and privacy, social and political dimensions of early modern privacy, and religious culture and public control.

E-mail: skha@kglakademi.dk


CarmenCarmen García Sánchez

Assistant Professor of Ephemeral Architecture at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Affiliated researcher at Centre for Privacy Studies

Former Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at The Royal Danish Academy - Architecture Design Conservation, Institute of Architecture and Design

BA and MA in Architecture, specialised in Building Construction, and Ph.D. in Architectural Design from School of Architecture, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

I am an experienced practicing architect and a Ph.D. in Architectural Design. As a MSCA fellow, I carry out my research Nature-In, at KADK. It is an artistic, technical and historical research project, that gains knowledge from our architectural heritage – in the form of exemplary postwar-Danish and traditional-Japanese buildings that contribute via rich multi-sensory stimulation to the connecting of their interior space with the surrounding nature. I develop this through Architectural Interior, Landscape, and Biophilic Design approaches with a focus on linking architectural research to future practice. The main aim is to enhance the health and wellbeing of communities through daily interaction with Nature. I also teach at the Master’s program Spatial Design at the Institute of Architecture and Design (KADK).

E-mail: car@teol.ku.dk

Niccolo Valmori

Postdoctoral Research Associate at King's College, French Department.

I am working on the AHRC funded project "Radical Translations: the Transfer of Revolutionary Culture between Britain, France and Italy (1789-1815)". My focus is on the cultural transfer between France and Italy (in both directions) during the Revolutionary period.

E-mail: niccolo.valmori@kcl.ac.uk

Lee Palmer Wandel

Professor, Affiliated Faculty

WARF Michael Baxandall and Linda and Stanley Sher Professor of History, University of Wisconsin - Madison

At present, I am working on a book, tentatively titled The Matter of the Liturgy, on the changing understanding of the relationship between matter and divine revelation in the liturgy in the sixteenth century.  This book builds on work I have done on iconoclasm, the Eucharist, and the sixteenth-century rethinking of the nature of Christian knowledge.

E-mail: lpw@teol.ku.dk
Florian Wöller

Associate Professor at The Section of Church History, The Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.

My research concerns two areas in the first 1500 years of Church History: On one hand, I work on theology as a scientific discipline in the then newly founded universities of the late Middle Ages. On the other hand, I investigate street processions through late-antique cities, emphasizing their performative qualities. A central part of my research agenda focuses on conflicts between private and public forms of religion in street processions.
 
E-mail: flw@teol.ku.dk