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Rebecka Katz Thor is a Lecturer at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), part of Linköping University's Department of Culture and Society (IKOS). Her research focuses on cultural memory, commemoration processes, and ethical-political dimensions of cultural heritage in contemporary art. She contributes to academic discourse through projects like Remember Us to Life (2021-2025) examining Swedish Holocaust museums and monuments, and Distrusting Monuments (2022-2025) analyzing post-Yugoslav memory culture. She co-edited the anthology Public Memory, Public Art (2022) and curates exhibitions such as Life as Cloth (2024) featuring Holocaust survivor Lenke Rothman.
Katz Thor earned her PhD in Aesthetics from Södertörn University. Her scholarly output spans museum studies, post-conflict memory, and feminist frameworks in art, engaging with thinkers like Judith Butler and Hannah Arendt. Recent articles explore 'monumental tiredness' in Public Art, Public Memory (2022) and 'vulnerable memories' in Thinking through GIBCA (2022).
Her artistic collaborations include the long-term feminist project And All is Yet to Be Done (2015-2020), which reinterprets early feminist movements through spatial/temporal structures. She critiques static commemoration models, advocating for dynamic memory practices that foreground marginalized narratives, as seen in her 2020 Dagens Nyheter essay on statues as 'ungrievable lives.'
