Christian Sørhaug

Christian Sørhaug is an Associate Professor at the Department of Welfare, Management and Organisation at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. His work focuses on digital welfare systems, social work practices, material culture studies, and posthumanist anthropology. He is affiliated with the Social Work Research Group and the Psychosocial Work Research Group.

• Education: PhD in Anthropology (2012), Master's in Social Science (2004)
• Key Research Areas: Assemblage theory applied to welfare technology, indigenous material practices among Warao communities, and posthumanist analyses of healthcare environments.

His publications critically examine digital welfare transformation, volunteer roles in care institutions, and the socio-material dynamics of everyday life. Recent work explores how technological systems reshape welfare provision and indigenous cultural production. He has contributed to interdisciplinary debates on care labor, object agency, and the socio-technical governance of marginalized populations.

Collaborations include co-editing the volume *Lost in Digital Translations* (2023) and co-authoring studies on lifestyle migration and rural reterritorialization. His research bridges anthropology, sociology, and digital humanities, emphasizing ethnographic methods to analyze complex socio-technical systems.