Following is a list of projects funded by the Icelandic Research Fund 2016-2021, where the PI is a member of the Centre for Research in the Humanities.
Grants of Excellence
2021
- Árni Daníel Júlíusson and Ramona Harrison (with Axel Kristinsson, Árni Hjartarson, Egill Erlendsson, Howell Magnus Roberts and Elín Ósk Hreiðarsdóttir): Power, Wealth and Pandemic in Two Valleys: Svarfaðardalur, Hörgárdalur and their hinterlands ca. AD 870–1500 (Institute of History).
2019
- Jón Ólafsson (with Björg Thorarensen, Valur Ingimundarson and Stefanía Óskarsdóttir): Democratic Constitutional Design: Negotiating Civic Engagement, Institutional Control and the Common Good (EDDA - Centre of Excellence)
2018
- Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon (with Már Jónsson, Davíð Ólafsson, Sigurjón B. Hafsteinsson, Anna Lísa Rúnarsdóttir, Gavin Murray Lucas, Þóra Pétursdóttir and Kristján Mímisson): My Favorite Things: Material Culture Archives, Cultural Heritage and Meaning (Institute of History).
2016
- Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir and Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson (with Ari Páll Kristinsson, Ásgrímur Angantýsson, Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, Guðbjörg Andrea Jónsdóttir, Charles Yang, Joel Constine Wallenberg, Laurel MacKenzie, Noel P. Ó Murchadha, Elín Þöll Þórðardóttir, Anton Karl Ingason and Ásrún Jóhannsdóttir): Modeling the Linguistic Consequences of Digital Contact (MoLiCoDiLaCo) (Institute of Linguistics).
Project Grants
2021
- Ásdís Rósa Magnúsdóttir and Irma Erlingsdóttir: The French Wave in Icelandic Theatre: 1960-2000 (Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute).
- Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon and Guðrún Valgerður Stefánsdóttir: Bíbí in Berlin. Disability Studies and Microhistory – A New Academic Approach (Institute of History) (in collaboration with the School of Education).
- Thomas Brorsen Smidt and Guðbjörg Ottósdóttir (with Ásta Kristín Ingvarsdóttir): Queer Refugees in Queer Utopias: Inclusions and Exclusions (in collaboration with the School of Social Sciences).
2020
- Elmar Geir Unnsteinsson (with Daniel W. Harris): Insincerity for Fragmented Minds (Instititue of Philosophy).
- Íris Ellenberger (with Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir, Gerardine Meaney, Anu Koivunen, Cormac O'Brien, Kaisa Ilmonen, Anne Mulhall, Peter Edelberg and Ásta Kristín Benediktsdóttir): From sexual outlaws to model citizens: The relations between queer sexualities and nationality in Iceland 1944–2010 (in collaboration with the School of Education).
2019
- Finnur Ulf Dellsén (with Insa Lawler): Understanding Progress in Science and Beyond (Instititue of Philosophy).
- Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson and Cherlon Usser (with Nicole Dehé, Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, Jim Wood and Hjálmar P. Petersen): Ditransitives in Insular Scandinavian (Institute of Linguistics).
- Sif Ríkharðsdóttir (with Þórhallur Eyþórsson, Carolyne Larrington, Frank Brandsma and Massimiliano Bampi): Emotion and the Medieval Self in Northern Europe (Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts).
- Sverrir Jakobsson (with Þórir Jónsson Hraundal): Legends of the Eastern Vikings (Institute of History).
2018
- Björn Þorsteinsson and Sigríður Þorgeirsdóttir (with Donata Schoeller, Claire Petitmengin, Andreas Roepstorff, Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir and MaryJeanne Larrabee): ECT - Embodied Critical Thinking (Instititue of Philosophy).
- Orri Vésteinsson (with Jette Arneborg, Christian Koch Madsen, Ólafur Eggertsson, Gurli Meyer, Karsten Secher and Sólveig Guðmundsdóttir Beck): Sticks and Stones. Raw Material Use in Norse Greenland (Institute of History).
2017
- Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir and Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir (with Þorgerður H. Þorvaldsdóttir): In the Wake of Suffrage. Icelandic Women as Cultural and Political Agents, 1915-2015 (Institute of History).
- Guðmundur Jónsson (with Árni Daníel Júlíusson, Björgvin Sigurðsson, Ólöf Garðarsdóttir and Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir): The Pillars of Rural Society. Family and Household Economy in Early Eighteenth Century Iceland (Institute of History).
2016
- Elmar Geir Unnsteinsson (with Ólafur Páll Jónsson, Francois Recanati, Deirdre Wilson and Daniel Harris): Confused Intentions and the Prospect of a Metasemantics of Singular Terms (Institute of Philosophy).
- Matthew James Whelpton and Alan Beretta (with Þór Eysteinsson, Einar Jón Einarsson, Þórhallur Eyþórsson, Andrew Trotter and Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir): Brain and Language: Neurolinguistics and ths Syntax-Semantics Interface in Icelandic (Institute of Linguistics).
Postdoctoral Grants
2021
- Caroline Batten: Whole, Holy, Healthy: Body and Self in Medieval Scandinavia (Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts).
-
Skafti Ingimarsson: Communist Lives: Approaching the Icelandic Communist Movement from a Biographical Perspective. The Role of
Einar Olgeirsson (Institute of History).
- Valgerður Pálmadóttir: Women bringing societies to a standstill: Icelandic women's strikes and their international influences (Institute of History).
2020
- Nanna Hlín Halldórsdóttir: Listening to Fatigue: From the perspective of feminist phenomenology and critical theory (Instititue of Philosophy).
- Declan Taggart: Fickle friends: Disentangling religion, morality and society in the early medieval North (Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts).
- William Konchak: Gadamer's Plato: The Beautiful, the Good and the Practical (Instititue of Philosophy).
2019
- Anna Björk Einarsdóttir: Peripheral Proletarianism: Literary Radicalism Between the Wars (1918-1939) (Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts).
- Ágústa Edwald Maxwell: From Middens to Landfills. The Archaeology of Waste Disposal in Iceland 1850-1990 (Institute of History).
2018
- Magnús Þór Þorbergsson: A History of Icelandic-Canadian Theatre: Routes, Networks and Intersections of Immigrant Community Theatres (Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts).
- Simon Halink: The Afterlife of Snorri Sturluson. A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Snorri's Role in the Cultural Memory of Iceland, Denmark, and Norway (Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts).
2017
- Gísli Rúnar Harðarson: Compound Structure in Icelandic and Beyond (Institute of Linguistics).
- Gunnar Theodór Eggertsson: Icelandic Animal Stories - an international investigation (Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts).
2016
- Sofiya Zahova: Romane lila. Romani Publications as Intersection Between Identity Politics and Literature (Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute).
Doctoral Grants
2021
- Alexandra Louise Tyas (supervisor Gavin Lucas and Katrín Anna Lund): Community underwater archaeology: A collaborative archaeology project in Iceland (Institute of History).
- Jonas Koesling (supervisor Emily Diana Lethbridge; tutor Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson): TITLE (Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts).
- Nikola Machácková (supervisor Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir; tutor Torfi Tulinius): A Study in Textual Transmission: Egils rímur and the “Younger Egla” (Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts).
2020
- Ermenegilda Rachel Müller (supervisor Margrét Eggertsdóttir): Origins and Impact of the First Icelandic Printed Collections of Sagas (Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts).
- Katrín Lísa van der Linde Mikaelsdóttir (supervisor Haraldur Bernharðsson): Norwegianisms in Icelandic Manuscripts from 1350 to 1450 (Institute of Linguistics).
- Sigrún Birgisdóttir (supervisor Ólafur Rastrick): Transformation of Territory: How Tourism Effects Change in Architecture and Landscapes as Studied Across an East-West Transect of 64°Latitude in Iceland (Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts).
- Svava Sigurðardóttir (supervisor Henry Alexander Henrysson): Blurred Boundaries? Understanding Role-Specific Duties and Responsibilities in Medical Practice and Genomics. The Case of Iceland (Instititue of Philosophy).
2019
- Bjarni Gunnar Ásgeirsson (supervisor Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir): The Textual Tradition of Njáls saga: The Case of Skafinskinna (Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts).
- Björn Reynir Halldórsson (supervisor Valur Ingimundarson): The Icelandic Women's Alliance: Challenging a Political System from a Feminist Perspective (Institute of History).
- Ole Martin Sandberg (supervisor Sigríður Þorgeirsdóttir): Philosophy and Democratic Crisis: Anthropological Assumptions as Self-Fulfilling Prophecies (Instititue of Philosophy).
2018
- Atli Antonsson (supervisor Guðni Elísson): A Cultural History of Volcanic Eruptions in Iceland (Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts).
- Ingunn Hreinberg Indriðadóttir (supervisor Höskuldur Þráinsson): Weight Effects and Word Order Variation in Icelandic and Faroese (Institute of Linguistics).
- Roberto Pagani (supervisor Haraldur Bernharðsson): Scribes and Scribal Practice in 15th Century Iceland - The Evolution of Script, Orthography, and Language in the Long 15th Century (ca. 1375-1525) (Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts).
2017
- Gústav Adolf B. Sigurbjörnsson (supervisor Björn Þorsteinsson): Worlds Beyond Mine: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Epistemology of Empathy and Communication (Instititue of Philosophy).
- Jon Simon Markússon (supervisor Þórhallur Eyþórsson): Icelandic and Faroese: A Cognitive Analysis of Morphological Change (Institute of Linguistics).
- Sævar Ari Finnbogason (supervisor Jón Ólafsson): Legitimacy Puzzles: Deliberative Mini-publics and Representative Democracy (Instititue of Philosophy).
- Védís Ragnheiðardóttir (supervisor Ármann Jakobsson): The Emergence and Development of Indigenous Riddarasögur: The Case of Exempla (Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts).
2016
- Nanna Hlín Halldórsdóttir (supervisor Sigríður Þorgeirsdóttir): Vulnerable in a Job Interview. From Butler's Ethics to a Marxist Politics (Instititue of Philosophy).
- Vanessa Monika Isenmann (supervisor Kristján Árnason): Computer-Mediated Cummunication in Iceland. Language Use in Informal Environments and its Public (Institute of Linguistics).
- Yoav Tirosh (supervisor Ármann Jakobsson): Textinn í farþegasætinu: Handritageymd og bókmenntagreinaflokkun Ljósvetninga sögu (Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts).