University of Iceland

Faculty Member, Museology

Associate Professor

School of Social Sciences

About

Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson is associate professor at the department of museology, University of Iceland. The graduate programme is consisting of a two-year Master of Arts (MA) and a Diploma in museology. Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson has a doctoral degree in cultural anthropology from Temple University in Philadelphia, USA. His dissertation research is an ethnographic analysis of Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, a national indigenous TV network in Canada. The title of the dissertation is “Unmasking Deep Democracy: Aboriginal Peoples Television Network and Cultural Production.”

Hafsteinsson´s fields of research have included indigenous media and democracy, visual culture and identities, death, representation, subjectivities, ethics and power, museums and cultural politics.

Hafsteinsson has an extensive administrative experience as director of three museums; Reykjavik Museum of Photography (see: www.ljosmyndasafnreykjavikur.is), the National Film Archive (see: www.kvikmyndasafn.is), and the District Culture Center (see: www.husmus.is). He has also worked at museums that include the University of Iceland Art Museum (as curatorial assistant) the National Museum of Iceland (on special projects) and the Reykjavik Museum (as curator of photography).  Since 1994, Hafsteinsson has taught as part-time lecturer at several universities in Iceland and been an instructor at Temple University. Hafsteinsson was co-ordinator of the  European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Media Anthropology Network (2008-2010).

Hafsteinsson is currently finishing a book that is tentatively called “Icelandic-k: The Phallological Museum and Neo-liberal Politics”.

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