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Karin Ahlberg is a social anthropologist at Stockholm University's Department of Social Anthropology. She received her PhD from SOAS, University of London in 2017 and previously held a Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Ahlberg earned her PhD from SOAS, University of London in 2017 following twenty months of fieldwork in Cairo in the aftermath of the 2011 Revolution. Her doctoral research examined entanglements between tourism, statecraft and national image curation in contemporary Egypt, which she is currently turning into a book manuscript titled 'Brand New Egypt'.
Ahlberg's research focuses on environmental and multispecies anthropology, with particular interest in the Mediterranean region. She is a member of the Ecography Lab which combines ecology and ethnography into an ecographic method of analysis. Her current research projects explore the environmental afterlives of the Suez Canal, marine species transformation in the Mediterranean Sea, and biodiversity dilemmas in ordinary places through the BIOrdinary project. Her work examines Lessepsian/marine species migration, more-than-human perspectives, and the politics of tourism and statecraft in the Middle East.
Dr. Ahlberg is actively engaged in research on the Mediterranean Sea's transformation, where the Suez Canal has become a 'highway' for tropical marine species seeking new habitats. This work forms part of her broader exploration of the relationship between environmental change, human activity, and political processes in the region.
