TEREZA ØSTBØ KULDOVA
social anthropologist, writer & curator
Tereza Østbø Kuldova, PhD
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Work Research Institute
OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University
Norway
Tereza Kuldova, PhD is a social anthropologist and Research Professor at the Work Research Institute, Oslo Metropolitan University. In her concluded research she studied the elite segment of the Indian fashion industry and the relations of production. She has recently finalized an individual research project ‘Gangs, Brands and Intellectual Property Rights: Interdisciplinary Comparative Study of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs and Luxury Brands’ funded by the Norwegian Research Council. She is the author of Luxury Indian Fashion: A Social Critique (2016) and editor of Fashion India: Spectacular Capitalism (2013), as well as Urban Utopias: Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia (2017) and Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs and Street Gangs: Scheming Legality, Resisting Criminalization (2018). She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology.
Work experience
Research Professor (Forsker I)
November 2020 -
Work Research Institute, Oslo Metropolitan University
Senior Researcher (Forsker II)
September 2019 - November 2020
Work Research Institute, Oslo Metropolitan University
Researcher
August 2016 – September 2019
Department of Archaeology, Conservation, and History, University of Oslo
Senior Visiting Researcher
August 2016 – July 2018
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna
NFR Mobility Research Grant: The project ‘Gangs, Brands and Intellectual Property Rights: Interdisciplinary Comparative Study of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs and Luxury Brands’ has received funding from The Research Council of Norway through a FRIPRO Mobility Grant, contract no 250716. The FRIPRO Mobility grant scheme (FRICON) is co-funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program for research, technological development and demonstration under Marie Curie grant agreement no 608695.
Guest Lecturer
September 2017
Department of Ethnology, Charles University, Prague
Intensive Course: What Meets the Eye: Lessons in Visual Anthropology (6ECTS)
Guest Lecturer
March 2017 – August 2017
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna
Standard Course: Making Ethnographic Exhibitions: Theory and Practice (4ECTS)
Postdoctoral Fellow
2014 August - July 2016
Department of Archeology, Conservation and History
University of Oslo
International HERA project - Enterprise of Culture
For more information about the project click here
Research Fellow & Curator
2013 May - 2014 June
Museum of Cultural History
Department of Ethnography
University of Oslo
'Stairway to Heaven' (together with Lill-Ann Chepstow-Lusty, as part of the exhibition 'Ja vi 'Fashion India: Spectacular Capitalism' (opened 13th September 2013) and Research and curating of following exhibitions: elsker', opened 16th May 2014)
PhD Fellow
2010 January - 2013 May
Museum of Cultural History, Department of Ethnography, University of Oslo
PhD research project - 'Designing Elites: Fashion and Prestige in Urban North India'
Research Interests
biker subculture, outlaw motorcycle clubs, vigilante groups, economy, political economy, psychoanalysis, desire, poverty, philanthropy, material culture, fashion theory, structural violence, craft, design, art, capitalism, value theory,urban studies, business history, luxury markets, nationalism, identity politics, economic anthropology, patronage, aesthetics and ideology, branding and marketing, critical theory
South Asia, Central Europe, Northern Europe
Applied Expertise
museum exhibition design, museum collections and archival systems, project leadership, loan negotiations, teaching and public lectures, press releases, conference organization, academic publishing, ethnographic filmmaking, film editing
Languages
English
Hindi
German
Czech
Norwegian
Education
2013 PhD degree in social anthropology
University of Oslo, Norway
Thesis title: Designing Elites: Fashion and Prestige in Urban North
India (supervisors: Thomas Hylland Eriksen & Øivind Fuglerud)
2009 Master degree in social anthropology
University of Oslo, Norway
Thesis title: Networks that Make a Difference: The Production of Social Cohesion in Lucknow, North India (supervisor: Christian Krohn-Hansen)
International Collaboration
2018 – now
Convenor of the EASA Anthropology of Security Network
https://www.easaonline.org/networks/security/
2017-now
Founder of Extreme Anthropology Research Network
http://www.extreme-anthropology.com
2014 - 2016
Post-doctoral fellow at HERA project
Enterprise of Culture
2011 – 2012 October – February
Research Fellow at HERA project
Creativity and Innovation in a World of Movement
Grants Awarded
2018
EASA Funding for the Anthropology of Security Network Conference, ‘Security and Morality: Critical Anthropological Perspectives’, 28.-29.3.2019, University of Oslo (funding from the European Association of Social Anthropologists, 1000EUR, funding from the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo, 1500EUR)
2017
Zukunftsfonds der Republik Österreich, Projekt Nr. P17-2876, Extreme Masculinities: Internationale interdisziplinäre Konferenz. (6000 EUR)
2015
Norwegian Research Council in collaboration with COFUND Marie Curie – 3-year mobility research grant (400 000 EUR), current research position
2015
Peder Sather Grant (24 000 EUR), for research trips & conferences (principal investigators: Tereza Kuldova, University of Oslo and Martin Sanchez-Jankowski, UC Berkeley: ‘Gangs, Brands and Intellectual Property Rights: Outlaw Bikers, Luxury Brands and Legal Battles over Trademarked Insignia’
2013
Ethnographic exhibition ‘Fashion India: Spectacular Capitalism’, (35 000 EUR), Museum of Cultural History, Oslo.
2012
Ingmund Kirkerud’s Legat (3 500 EUR), ethnographic filmmaking
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF and FOUNDER
Journal of Extreme Anthropology (interdisciplinary peer-reviewed open-access journal, University of Oslo, nivå 1), for the editorial board and latest issues please visit:
https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/JEA/about/editorialTeam
EDITORIAL BOARD
The Journal of Culture (Institute of Ethnology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague), ISSN 1804-3240, http://www.journalofculture.cz/en/
Continental Thought & Theory (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), ISSN 2463-333X, http://ctt.canterbury.ac.nz
PEER-REVIEWER FOR FOLLOWING JOURNALS
Qualitative Market Research
Journal of Design History
Crime, Law and Social Change
Social Anthropology
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
Journal of Extreme Anthropology (editor-in-chief)
The Journal of Culture (on editorial board)
Continental Thought & Theory (on editorial board)
https://publons.com/researcher/1600720/tereza-kuldova/
VISITING SCHOLARSHIPS
2016 – 2018
Visiting Senior Researcher, University of Vienna (FRIPRO Mobility Grant)
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
2015
Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley (Peder Sather Grant)
Peder Sather Grant for one-year collaboration with colleagues at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, UC Berkeley
2011
Visiting Research Fellow
School of Oriental and African Studies, London
External PhD thesis supervisor: Caroline Osella, SOAS
2010 - present
2010 - present