CHAQ 2020 science team
Pablo Fontana es Doctor y Profesor en Historia por la Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires (UBA) y ha presentado su tesis de doctorado en Historia. Es investigador del Programa de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades de la Coordinación Científica del IAA. Comenzó sus actividades en la Antártida en 2015 y su área de trabajo incluye la puesta en valor del patrimonio histórico antártico de la Argentina, el Proyecto de historia oral sobre la historia antártica argentina (previa al Tratado Antártico), y el armado del Archivo Digital de Fotografía Histórica del IAA.
Dag Avango is Professor of History at the Division of Social Sciences, Luleå University of Technology. His research has focused on the history of extractive industries, its interaction with science and geopolitics and its consequences for environments and communities. A related research topic is heritagization. Avango’s research is situated at the interface between archaeology and history.
Kati Lindström, PhD. is a researcher at the Division for History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. She is a scholar of environmental humanities with a background in semiotics, anthropology, environmental history and geography. She is interested in the interplay of personal and public in the environmental perception, specifically in how individual experiences and cultural stereotypes influence the delineation and management of natural and cultural heritage sites (meant to be a scientific practice), and vice versa.
Gunnar Almevik is Professor in Heritage Conservation at the Department of Conservation, Gothenburg University. His research concerns cultural perspectives on historical crafts, buildings and built environments, and he has a general focus on methodological questions related to material culture and making. Almevik further has a research interest in intangible heritage and the relation between heritage craft and conservation. One of his major concerns is bridging the gap between research and practice.
Jonathan Westin is docent and coordinates the Center for Digital Humanities at Gothenburg University. His research studies how we form our perception of culture through representations, and how these representations become part of our cultural heritage. By focusing on the communicative aspects of culture management, he approaches the creation of visual representations as a negotiation process between new research and established images.
Lize-Marié van der Watt, PhD. is a researcher at the Division for History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. She researches histories of polar pasts and polar futures, with a focus on the intersection between the environment, science, cultural heritage and critical geopolitics in the Arctic and Antarctica.
