Marianne Hem Eriksen

Research projects
- Archaeology of Dwelling (2016-2019, Research Council of Norway/Marie Curie)
- Portals to the Past: An archaeology of doorways, dwellings, and ritual practice in Late Iron Age Scandinavia (2012-2015, PhD)
Books
- Architecture, Society and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, February 2019.
- Viking Worlds. Things, Spaces and Movement. Oxbow, Oxford, 2015. Edited by M.H. Eriksen, U. Pedersen, B. Rundberget, I. Axelsen & H.L. Berg
Education and academic appointments
- 2017- Associate Professor of Archaeology, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo (on research leave)
- 2017-2019 Research Fellow co-hosted by the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research/University of Oslo, funded through an individual grant from Marie Curie/Research Council of Norway
- 2016 Associate Professor (substitute) at the Dept. of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo
- 2015 Research/Teaching Fellow at the University of Oslo
- 2015 Competence in university pedagogics
- 2013 Visiting PhD student at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London
- 2012-2015 PhD Research Fellow at the University of Oslo (fully funded)
- 2008-2010 MA at the University of Oslo
Awards
- 2017 Elected member of The Young Academy of Norway, the early career organization of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- 2017 Research Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge
- 2016 H.M. The King’s Gold Medal for scientific inquiry by younger scholars of excellence (2016)
- 2015 FRIPRO Mobility Grant
Other Professional Activities
- 2017-2019 visiting scholar/research fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
- Member of the reference group of The Viking Phenomenon, Prof. Neil Price, Uppsala University
- I regularly disseminate archaeology through radio and TV broadcasts in Norway
Publications
- Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Fredriksen, Per Ditlef; Melheim, Anne Lene; Prøsch-Danielsen, Lisbeth & Skogstrand, Lisbeth (2020). Contrasts of the Bronze Age – Time, Ritual and Encounters in the Nordic World: An Introduction, In Knut Ivar Austvoll; Marianne Hem Eriksen; Per Ditlef Fredriksen; Anne Lene Melheim; Lisbeth Prøsch-Danielsen & Lisbeth Skogstrand (ed.), Contrasts of the Nordic Bronze Age. Essays in Honour of Christopher Prescott. Brepols. ISBN 978-2-503-58877-3. 1.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2020). ‘Body-objects’ and personhood in the Iron and Viking Ages: processing, curating, and depositing skulls in domestic space. World archaeology. ISSN 0043-8243. 52, s 103- 119 . doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2019.1741439 Show summary
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2020). Dream-houses of the Late Iron and Viking Ages -- The house and the self, In Charlotta Hillerdal & Kristin Ilves (ed.), Re-imagining Periphery: Archaeology and Text in Northern Europe from Iron Age to Viking and Early Medieval Periods. Oxbow Books. ISBN 9781789254501. 1. s 1 - 10
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2020). Bridging Perspectives: Social Dynamics of Houses and Households in Bronze Age Scandinavia, In Knut Ivar Austvoll; Marianne Hem Eriksen; Per Ditlef Fredriksen; Anne Lene Melheim; Lisbeth Prøsch-Danielsen & Lisbeth Skogstrand (ed.), Contrasts of the Nordic Bronze Age. Essays in Honour of Christopher Prescott. Brepols. ISBN 978-2-503-58877-3. 14.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Embodied regulations: Searching for boundaries in the Viking Age, In Ruth Nugent; Ben Jervis; Barbara Hausmair & Ellie Williams (ed.), Archaeologies of Rules and Regulations: Between text and practice. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-765-9. 5.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Don't all mothers love their children? Deposited infants as animate objects in the Scandinavian Iron Age. World archaeology. ISSN 0043-8243. 49(3), s 338- 356 . doi: 10.1080/00438243.2017.1340189 Full text in Research Archive.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2016). Commemorating Dwelling: The Death and Burial of Houses in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia. European Journal of Archaeology. ISSN 1461-9571. 19(3), s 477- 496 . doi: 10.1080/14619571.2016.1186918 Show summary
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2016). Den enes død er den annens brød? Om kropp, mat og dødsforestillinger i skandinavisk jernalder. Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7005. (2), s 49- 59
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2015). The powerful ring. Door rings, oath rings, and the sacral place, In Marianne Hem Eriksen; Unn Pedersen; Bernt Rundberget; Irmelin Axelsen & Heidi Lund Berg (ed.), Viking Worlds. Things, spaces, and movement. Oxbow Books. ISBN 9781782977278. 6.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2014). Frihetens port. En reise gjennom fortidens dører, I: Svein Harald Gullbekk (red.), Ja, vi elsker frihet. Dreyer Forlag A/S. ISBN 978-82-8265-093-9. Ukjent kap.nr..
- Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Fredriksen, Per Ditlef; Melheim, Anne Lene; Prøsch-Danielsen, Lisbeth & Skogstrand, Lisbeth (ed.) (2020). Contrasts of the Nordic Bronze Age. Essays in Honour of Christopher Prescott. Brepols. ISBN 978-2-503-58877-3. 260 s. Show summary
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2019). Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia. Doors, Dwellings, and Domestic Space. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108497220. 276 s. Show summary
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Pedersen, Unn; Rundberget, Bernt; Axelsen, Irmelin & Berg, Heidi Lund (ed.) (2019). Viking Worlds: Things, Spaces and Movement [Paperback edition]. Oxbow Books. ISBN 9781789252101. 250 s.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Pedersen, Unn; Rundberget, Bernt; Axelsen, Irmelin & Berg, Heidi Lund (ed.) (2015). Viking Worlds. Things, spaces, and movement. Oxbow Books. ISBN 9781782977278. 250 s.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2020). Dream-Houses of the Late Iron and Viking Ages: The House and the Self .
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Blikstad-Balas, Marte & Sandtorv, Alexander Harald (2020). "Hvorfor er vi så besatt av gull, sølv og diamanter?" Arkeologen, tekstforskeren og kjemikeren svarer.. morgenbladet.no.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Gjesteland, Thomas & Bølstad, Jørgen (2020). «All forskning er vel ikke like bra?» En arkeolog, en fysiker og en statsviter svarer. morgenbladet.no.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Ness, Kaja Kristin & Hagen, Thor Amund (2020, 22. april). https://www.nrk.no/viten/gatefulle-dodsritualer-i-vikingtida_-la-deler-av-hodeskaller-i-huset-1.14965651. [Internett]. NRK.no.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Smedsrud, Morten Skipenes (2020, 21. februar). Dødsritualene forteller historier. [Fagblad]. Forskningsmagasinet Apollon. Show summary
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Snipstad, Sofie & Solheim, Marte Cecilie Wilhelmsen (2020). Blir verden den samme igjen? Arkeologen, fysikeren og innovasjonsforskeren svarer. morgenbladet.no.
- Falkum, Ingrid Lossius; Busterud, Guro; Erdal, Marta Bivand; Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Eriksen, Stefka Georgieva (2020). Kjære, utålmodige minister [Forslag til liketillingstiltak i akademia]. Khrono.no. ISSN 1894-8995.
- Sandtorv, Alexander Harald; Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Solheim, Marte Cecilie Wilhelmsen (2020). Hva er kjærlighet? En kjemiker, en arkeolog og en innovasjonsforsker svarer på et av livets store spørsmål. morgenbladet.no.
- Schou, Ingrid & Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2020, 18. september). Barna til vikingene øvde seg med sverd og ble voksne tidlig. [Internett]. ung.forskning.no.
- Tjønndal, Anne; Sandtorv, Alexander Harald & Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2020). Trenger vi flere barn?. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
- Drefvelin, Caroline & Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2019, 24. august). «Beforeigners»- Det er feil mose i trusa. Dagbladet. Show summary
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2019). "Archaeology of Dwelling": Drømte fortidens mennesker også om hus?.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2019). Building personhood: The longhouse as lifework in late prehistoric Scandinavia.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2019). Døde barn i hus og myrer -- menneske-ting i jernalder og vikingtid.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2019). Grievability, households, and violence in the Iron and Viking Ages.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2019). House-dreams of the Viking Age: Undisciplined explorations of architecture, personhood, and dreaming in the past.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2019). Hvor går grensen mellom mennesker og ting? Døde barn i hus og myrer i det første årtusen.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2019). Hvorfor ble døde barn begravet i hus i jernalder og vikingtid? Om ‘rosemaling’ av fortiden. Show summary
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2019). Imbuing shadow-houses with life -- Late prehistoric Scandinavia, 1600 BCE-1000 CE.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2019). Introduction – From the comfortable domus to glimpses of past ontologies.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2019). Viking homes were stranger than fiction: portals to the dead, magical artefacts and ‘slaves’.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2019). Within four walls? Alterity and violence in Viking Age households.
- Krüger, Frida Jørstad & Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2019, 08. november). ‘Arkeologer fant merkelig grav fra vikingtiden’ [Kommentar til utgravning på NTNU]. [Internett]. NRK.no.
- Krüger, Frida Jørstad & Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2019, 24. september). Fant sjeldent dødehus fra vikingtiden [Kommentar til utgravning ved NTNU]. [Internett]. NRK.
- Bratland-Sanda, Solfrid; Blikstad-Balas, Marte; De Moor, Katrien; Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Falkum, Ingrid Lossius; Holmen, Heidi & Aronsen, Jan Magnus (2018). Akademia må satse på undervisningskarrierer. Khrono.no. ISSN 1894-8995.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Body-objects in domestic space in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Dwelling in place: The longhouse bundling past, present, and future in later prehistoric Scandinavia. Show summary
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Dwelling with the dead in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia: Human-house relationality.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Dørringer, deponeringer og livsløp i jernalder og vikingtid.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Longhouses as temporal assemblages in the Iron and Viking Ages.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Review: Built on Bones. 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death by Brenna Hassett. AP: Online Journal in Public Archaeology. ISSN 2171-6315. 7(2017)
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Slik mislykkes du med doktorgraden (del I). Forskerforum. ISSN 0800-1715. 5, s 37
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Slik mislykkes du med doktorgraden (del II). Forskerforum. ISSN 0800-1715. 6
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). The juice of one tomato. On writing PhD dissertations.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). The lives and deaths of houses in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Things as people, people as things: Exploring personhood in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Types, time, and tension: the Scandinavian-style longhouse over the longue durée. Show summary
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Within four walls: Personhood and domestic violence in the Viking Age.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2018). Å finne en livsverden i et stolpehull. Nye perspektiver i skandinavisk bosetningsarkeologi. Show summary
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Bleken, Halfdan (2018, 03. april). Gravlagte hus. [Radio]. NRK Ekko.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Bleken, Halfdan (2018, 20. februar). Langhuset - nordmenns bolig gjennom 3000 år. [Radio]. NRK Ekko.
- Bill, Jan; Glørstad, Ann Zanette Tsigaridas; Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Iversen, Frode; Vedeler, Marianne & Aannestad, Hanne Lovise (2017). Ikke la nynazistene stjele vikingtiden. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Approaching identity and individuality in Prehistory [chair].
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Archaeology of Dwelling. Houses and households over deep time in Scandinavia.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Assembling houses, house assemblages: How can we study prehistoric buildings from household perspectives?. Show summary
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Bodies and body-objects in domestic space: Atmospheric presence in the long Iron Age of Scandinavia.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Can we trace ontology from postholes? A view from Scandinavia’s later prehistory.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Challenges of studying gender in settlements [intro and chair].
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Deposited infants as animate objects in Iron-Age Scandinavia.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Fem strategier for å mislykkes som forsker.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). House assemblages and domestic space through deep time.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). How to fail at research proposals.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Investigating Bronze Age households - A view from Scandinavia.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Kraften av en tomat. Om å skrive doktorgradsavhandling..
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). Processing, curating, and fragmenting skulls in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). The longhouse of Iron-Age Scandinavia: Death, commemoration, and infant deposition.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2017). The processes of engendering: space and materials [intro and chair].
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Haugen, Toril (2017, 25. april). Can houses die? Iron-age to Viking longhouses were burned and buried. [Internett]. www.heritagedaily.com.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Haugen, Toril (2017, 25. april). Iron-age Viking longhouses were burned and buried in funerals. [Internett]. www.phys.org.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Haugen, Toril (2017, 27. januar). Kan hus døy? Jarnalderens langhus blei brende og gravlagde. [Tidsskrift]. Forskningsmagasinet Apollon.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Steenstrup, Henriette & Såheim, Fridtjov (2017, 26. mars). En bit av historien -- Vikingtid. [TV]. TV2.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2016). Archaeology of Dwelling - Introduksjon til et prosjekt.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2016). Don’t all mothers love their children? Deposits of infants and children in the Iron and Viking Ages.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2016). Doorways. Narrative spaces and social mnemonics in the Viking Age.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2016). How to survive the PhD - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the PLAN.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2016). På terskelen til hus og hall i yngre jernalder.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2016). Things to do during the PhD – publish articles on the side (Guest blog on patter - blog on academic writing).
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2016). Traces of persistence, persistence of trace: Architecture, memory, and lived space through deep time in Scandinavia.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Brobakke, Marthe Tokle (2016, 11. november). På jakt etter menneskene. Et intervju med Marianne Hem Eriksen. [Tidsskrift]. Nicolay 129 (2):35-39.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Grydeland, Ivar (2016, 25. mai). NRK P2: 'De hverdagslige vikingene' Intervju i Ekko. [Radio]. NRK P2. Show summary
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Grydeland, Ivar (2016, 07. juni). NRK P2: Død og erotikk i vikingtid. Intervju i Ekko. [Radio]. NRK P2 Ekko.
- Gjertsen, Jostein & Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2016, 21. februar). NRK P2: Ut i kulturen - privatlivets historie. [Radio]. NRK P2.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2015). Portals to the Past. An archaeology of doorways, dwellings, and ritual practice in Late Iron Age Scandinavia (Unpublished PhD thesis). Show summary
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2015). Ritualization of the Scandinavian-style longhouse, 400-1050CE.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2015). Seksualitet og død – en evig syklus. Norgeshistorie.no.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2015). Slaver, barn og kvinner – husholdet i merovingertiden. Norgeshistorie.no.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2015). Viking Foodways: Consumption, Space, and the Household in Norway , c. 550-1050 CE.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Gundersen, Håkon (2015, 18. september). Overskridelser i dørkarmen (i spalten 'Doktoren svarer'). Morgenbladet.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Pedersen, Unn; Rundberget, Bernt; Axelsen, Irmelin & Berg, Heidi Lund (2015). Exploring Viking Worlds, In Marianne Hem Eriksen; Unn Pedersen; Bernt Rundberget; Irmelin Axelsen & Heidi Lund Berg (ed.), Viking Worlds. Things, spaces, and movement. Oxbow Books. ISBN 9781782977278. Introduction.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Øksdal, Alf Tore (2015, 08. september). Dette forteller dørene om vikingtida. [Internett]. http://forskning.no/historie/2015/09/apner-dorer-til-vikingt.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Øksdal, Alf Tore (2015, 03. september). Åpner dører til vikingtiden. [Internett]. http://www.hf.uio.no/iakh/forskning/aktuelt/.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2014). Mellom praksis og ideologi. Nye blikk på hus og hushold i Norges yngre jernalder.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2014). Re-organisation of household space in the Viking Age/Medieval Period transition in Norway.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2014). Transformation of Everyday Life: Architectural alterations and the religious conversion of Early Medieval Norway.
- Bill, Jan; Bø, Terje; Røvik, Geir; Iversen, Frode; Aase, Sigurd; Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Tallaksen, Tommy; Kvalø, Frode; Altrock, Håkan; Ødelund, Arne Petter; Nevestad, Dag; Vaaagland, Lars; Edman, Caroline; Bjercke, Kari & Hjeltnes, Arne (2013, 07. april). Arkeologene: Skatter i havet 2:8. [TV]. NRK1.
- Eriksen, Marianne Hem (2013). Crossing the Boundary: The door as a judicial-cultic arena in the Viking Age?.