Naja Dyrendom Graugaard

Naja Dyrendom Graugaard serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen's Faculty of Humanities, specializing in colonial history and decolonial studies with focus on Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat). Her research critically examines Denmark's colonial legacy through interdisciplinary frameworks integrating gender, Indigenous perspectives, and environmental justice.

Her primary research interests include Colonial History, Decolonial Studies, Reproductive Justice, and Indigenous Arctic Research, with emphasis on systemic racism in historical population control programs and contemporary environmental conflicts. Methodologically, she employs intersectional analysis to challenge Western epistemological dominance in Arctic scholarship.

Recent publications demonstrate consistent focus on Greenlandic decolonization, particularly Denmark's IUD enforcement program and its classification as reproductive genocide. Her 2023-2025 works reveal growing interdisciplinary collaboration across environmental science, history, and gender studies, with increasing engagement of Inuit knowledge systems.

Awards:

• Emma Goldman Award 2025 for groundbreaking research on colonial reproductive coercion

Dr. Graugaard actively shapes academic discourse through editorial work for Women, Gender and Research journal and leadership in decolonial initiatives like the Nunarput Land Back conference. Her Arctic Circle Berlin Forum participation highlights commitment to policy-relevant scholarship addressing climate change and Indigenous rights.