Gitte Westergaard

Associate Professor

Gitte Westergaard

Contact

Telephone: 51832206

Email: gitte.westergaard@uis.no

Room: HG N-317

Department

Faculty of Arts and Education

Department of Cultural Studies and Languages

About me

I am a PhD candidate affiliated with the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at UiS. My research explores how museum practices and heritage management shape human understandings of nature. I hold a B.A. in history of ideas and an M.A. in sustainable heritage management from Aarhus University. 

I am currently working with the research project Beyond Dodos and Dinosaurs: Displaying Extinction and Recovery in Museums led by Professor Dolly Jørgensen financed by the Norwegian Research Council. My project engages with the present mass extinction crisis through colonial collections of island specimens. 

I work as the editorial assistant for Environmental Humanities. I am a member of the Norwegian researcher school in environmental humanities as well as the research school in radical interdisciplinarity.

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Publications

Vitenskapelige publikasjoner

Westergaard, Gitte

(2024)

Ghostly Presences: Giant Lizards and Conservation on Culebra Island. I: Entire of itself? : Towards an Environmental History og Islands.

White Horse Press.

ISBN 9781912186822.

s.99-120.

DOI: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.12638983.8

Westergaard, Gitte

(2023)

Colonial entanglements in extinction narratives: The afterlives of two Saint Lucia giant rice rats.

Journal of Natural Science Collections.

ISSN 2053-1133.

Volum 11.

s.3-12.

Westergaard, Gitte

(2022)

Hidden Stories of Extinction: Hawaiian 'Ahu'ula Feather Capes as Biocultural Artefacts.

Museum and Society (M&S).

ISSN 1479-8360.

Volum 20.

Hefte 1.

s.104-117.

DOI: 10.29311/mas.v20i1.3803

Westergaard, Gitte; Jørgensen, Dolly

(2021)

Making specimens sacred : Putting the bodies of Solitario Jorge and Cu Rua on display. I: Animal Remains.

Routledge.

ISBN 9780367655129.

s.68-86.

DOI: 10.4324/9781003129806-7

Formidling

Westergaard, Gitte

(2022)

Øer, klimaforandringer og biokulturelle genstande .

Havets Historier;

2022-02-24 - .

Westergaard, Gitte

(2022)

Heritage.

Hva er Historie?;

2022-03-29 - .

Jørgensen, Dolly; Westergaard, Gitte

(2022)

Animal Remains Book Launch panel 2.

Animal Remains Book Launch;

2022-04-20 - 2022-04-21.

Westergaard, Gitte

(2022)

Creating Room for Response-ability beyond Cultural and Biological Binaries inside Museums .

Green Transitions in Blue Museums;

2022-09-07 - 2022-09-08.

Westergaard, Gitte

(2021)

Decolonising Animal Remains in Natural History Museums.

Heritage & Colonialism Discussion Group;

2021-05-04 - .

Westergaard, Gitte

(2021)

Storying Extinction beyond Natural History Museums.

STREAMS: Transformative Environmental Humanities;

2021-08-03 - 2021-08-06.

Westergaard, Gitte

(2021)

Bringing Extinction Back to Life: The Hawaiian Feather Cloak.

Environment and Empire in the Museum ;

2021-09-01 - .

Westergaard, Gitte; Maabjerg Mikkelsen, Anne; Samson, Kathleen; Attia, Yael

(2021)

Institutionalising the Non-Human: in conversation with Gitte Westergaard and Anne Maabjerg Mikkelsen.

Westergaard, Gitte

(2021)

Colonising & Decolonising.

History through 20 Things;

2021-09-23 - .

Westergaard, Gitte

(2021)

Ghostly Presence: Giant Lizards on Culebra Island.

Towards an Environmental History of Islands;

2021-11-17.

Westergaard, Gitte

(2021)

Panel: Conservation, Life and Afterlives.

Extinction Studies across the Disciplines;

2021-12-07.

Westergaard, Gitte

(2021)

Wildlife Dioramas: Natures without Humans .

Environmental History Now.

Westergaard, Gitte

(2020)

Brita Brenna, Hans Dam Christensen and Olav Hamran (eds.): Museums as Cultures of Copies: The Crafting of Artefacts and Authenticity.

Norsk museumstidsskrift.

ISSN 2464-2525.

Volum 6.

Hefte 1.

s.60-63.

DOI: 10.18261/issn.2464-2525-2020-01-05

Westergaard, Gitte

(2020)

Extinction on Display.

Topics in World Environmental History;

2020-04-23 - .

Burke, Verity Alison; Westergaard, Gitte

(2020)

Jorge and Alfred: Multiple Bodies in Extinction Narratives.

Extinction in Public;

2020-10-16 - 2020-10-17.

Westergaard, Gitte

(2019)

To Catch, Pluck and Let Go: The ʻŌʻō and the ʻAhuʻula Feather Cloaks.

Museums and Environmental Humanities ;

2019-08-19 - .