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Lien has published extensively on nineteenth century as well as modern and\u00a0contemporary photography.\u00a0Recent publications include the edited volume\u00a0Uncertain Images: Museums and\u00a0the Work of Photographs,\u00a0Ashgate 2014, (with Elizabeth Edwards); the authored volume,\u00a0Pictures of Longing.\u00a0Photography in the History of the Norwegian U.S.-migration, University of Minnesota Press 2018, and the edited volume\u00a0Contact Zones. Photography, Migration and Cultural Encounters in the US\u00a0(with Justin Carville),\u00a0Leuven University Press, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hilde Wallem Nielssen<\/strong> is Professor of Intercultural Studies at the\u00a0Department of Pedagogy, Religion and Social Studies\/Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway, and PhD in social anthropology. Nielssen has published extensively on issues such as ritual aesthetics and practice, critical museology and museum exhibitions, and indigenous photography. Her research interests include photography and visual practices, critical museology, representation, colonialism and decolonisation. Together with Sigrid Lien she has published\u00a0Museumsforteljingar. Vi og dei andre\u00a0(Museum Stories. We and the Others 2016) and\u00a0Colonial Legacies and Decolonial Activism in Indigenous Photography\u00a0(2021).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigrid Lien\u00a0(b. 1958)\u00a0is\u00a0Professor of Art History and Photography Studies, at the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen.\u00a0Project leader for the Norwegian team in the HERA-project PhotoClec (Museums, Colonial past and Photography) 2010-2012, and for the project \u201cNegotiating\u00a0History: Photography in S\u00e1mi Culture\u201d, funded by the Norwegian Research Council (2014-2017). 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