Lena Gross

Lena Gross is a senior researcher at the High North Department of NIKU, the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research. They have a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Oslo and worked as a postdoc and associate professor at the Centre for Sámi Studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway before coming to NIKU.

Gross’ primary research interests are traditional/Indigenous knowledges and knowledge hierarchies, relations to land(scapes), minority-majority relations, gender, resource extraction in Sápmi and Canada, and decolonial/Indigenous/queer/feminist methodologies. They work theoretically and methodologically at an intersection between Indigenous, queer, and gender studies and social anthropology.

Gross has currently research affiliations with at the Centre for Sami Studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg.