CURRICULUM VITAE (incl. List of Scientific Publications) Name: Kjersti Larsen Birth: 07.02.60 Citizenship: Norwegian Sex: Female Education: Social Anthropologist (Ph. D) Position: Associate Professor, University of Oslo Work address: Museum of Culture and History, Dept. of Ethnography, University of Oslo, P. O. Box. 6762, St. Olavs Plass, 0130 Oslo Tel. +47 22 85 99 68, Fax +47 22 85 99 60, E-mail: [email protected]. Home address: Kirkeveien 114 A, 0361 Oslo, phone: 22 60 51 35 Specialities: African studies, Muslim societies and Islam, modernisation processes, gender, social and cultural change, local knowledge, migration and mobility, multicultural societies, cosmology, ritual studies. Employment Record 2001-present: Associate Professor, Department of Ethnography, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo 2001-present: Adjunct Professor, Centre for International Environment & Development Studies, Noragric Agricultural University of Norway. 2003-2006: Head of Department, Department of Ethnography, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo 1996-2001: Associate professor, Noragric Agricultural University of Oslo 1995-1996: Lecturer / Associate Professor; Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. 1995-1996: Adviser, Immigration Department Ministry of Justice, Norway 1991-1994: Research fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. Education: 1995 Ph.D. Social Anthropology 1989 Cand. Polit Social Anthropology 1989 Statistical methods, Faculty of Social Science 1983 Cand. Mag. Psychology, Anthropology, History

University of Oslo University of Oslo University of Oslo University of Oslo

Guest Researcher 2005: May-June: Invited Guest researcher (one month) at Centre d’Études Africaines, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences 2004: Oct-Dec. Invited Guest Researcher at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), Leiden University, the Netherlands 2002: April-June: Invited Guest Researcher at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), Leiden University, The Netherlands 2000: Nov-Des. Guest Researcher, CCCRW, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford 2000: Invited as Guest Researchers (one term) at Centre for Cross Cultural Research on Women, QEH, University of Oxford 1999: Invited Guest researcher (one month) at Centre d’Études Africaines, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences 1993: Research Fellow, Centre for Cross Cultural Research on Women, Queen Elizabeth House Oxford University Board of Trustees Membership 2003-2005: Board of Trustees, ICARDA (International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas) Aleppo, Syria 2006.2009: Board of Trustees, ICARDA (International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas) Aleppo, Syria Language: Norwegian (mother tongue)) English (very good) Swahili (very good) French (some) Arabic (some Sudanese colloquial)

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Fieldwork financed 1984-present: Zanzibar, Tanzania, Swahili Coast 1997-present; Bayoda desert, Northern Sudan Research Grants/Scholarships 2004 -2005, NFR; Adaptation to climate stress as a livelihood struggle: bridging conflict and vulnerability theory, S. Eriksen, J. Lind, L. O. Næss, K. Larsen, D. Potts; CICERO, UiO, Kings College, University of London, UKM, UIO 2001-2004, NFR; Rural Poverty and Well-being In Countries with Internal Wars: A comparative study of processes of impoverishment, displacement and identity construction, K. Larsen, Ruth Haug and N. Shanmugarathnam 1997-2000, NFR; Forced migration of civil war victims, in Africa. Resource conflicts, dilemmas of return and long term development, K. Larsen, Ruth Haug and N. Shanmugarathnam 1991-1994, NFR; Research Fellow, 1993, NFR; Research grants (Utenlandsopphold) 1985-1986, NFR; Scholarship,

Doctoral committee 2000 - Faculty opponent: Historical-Philosophical Faculty, University of Lund, Sweden 1997 - Faculty opponent: Historical-Philosophical Faculty, University of Lund, Sweden.

Other Qualified Committees: 2006: Qualified selecting committee (Sakkyndig bedømmelseskomite): Ph.D. position, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo 2005: Qualified selecting committee, Associate Professor Position, University of Lund 2004-2005: Qualified selecting committee, Associate Professor Position, Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen 2004: Qualified selecting committee, Associate Professor Position, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo 2002-2003: Qualified selecting committee (Sakkyndig bedømmelseskomite; Research position, Univerity of Lund 2001: Qualified selecting committee (Sakkyndig bedømmelseskomite); Associate Professor Position at Oslo College. 2000: Qualified selecting committee (Sakkyndig bedømmelseskomite): Ph.D. position, Faculty of Social Science, Tromsø University 1999-2001: Qualified committee reviewing the Norwegian Citizenship Law 1998-1999: Qualified selecting committee (Sakkyndig bedømmelseskomite): Associate professor, Ethnographic Museum Bergen University 1998: Qualified selecting committee (Sakkyndig bedømmelseskomite): Ph.D. position, SUM, University of Oslo Managerial work 2007-2009: NFR: FRISAM - Div. Social Science 2003 -2006: Head of Department of Ethnography, University of Oslo 2000-2004: Responsible for PhD course in ‘Development Studies’, Agricultural University of Norway 1997-present: Member of The Noragric Research Committee, Agricultural University 1998-1999: Director of PhD Programme, Agricultural University of Norway 1996-1999: Noragric Publishing Committee 1997-1999: Board member: Norwegian Association for Development Research /NFU 1993-1999: Board member: North/South Coalition (Centre for Development and the Environment/SUM, University of Oslo) International Academic Network 2004 - present: French-Norwegian Africanist Research Network, MSH & UiO 2002 - present: The International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), University of Leiden, the Netherlands 2001- present: French-English Swahili Workshop/Table Ronde 1993 - present: Centre for Cross Cultural Research on Women, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford

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1999 - present: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Prof. José Kagabo and Researcher JeanClaude Penrad. 1990 - present: National Archives, Zanzibar Tanzania Nordic academic network Department of the History of Religion, University of Lund, Sweden Prof. Tord Olsson The Nordic Africa Institute, Research Programme: Poverty and Prosperity in Africa. The Indian Ocean Network, Centre for Development Studies, University of Bergen, Prof. Leif Manger Memberships American Anthropological Association (AAA) European Anthropological Association (EASA) Nork Antropologisk Forening

Publications Knowledge, Renewal and Religion: Repositioning and changing ideological and material circumstances among the Swahili on the East-African Coast, Kjersti Larsen (ed.). Uppsala: The Nordic Africa Institute, forthcoming 2008 2008, Where Humans and Spirits Meet: Ritual, Identity and Everydaylife Politics in Zanzibar, Oxford: Berghahn, forthcoming 2008 2008 ’Far from the Battlefield: Livelihood revival, settlement and modernization among the Hawawir, Northern Sudan’, in N. Shanmugaratnam (ed.), Preparing for Peace: Between Deprivation and Livelihood Revival, Oxford: James Currey. 2007 ‘Dialogues between humans and spirits: Ways of negotiating relationships and moral order in Zanzibar Town, Zanzibar’. U. Demmer & M. Gaenszle (eds.) The Power of Discourse in Ritual Performance: Rhetorics, Poetics, Transformations, Berlin: LIT Verlag 2007 Custom, Adaptability and Conflict Mediation on Arid Land: Returnees and Stayees in Wadi al Mugaddam, Sudan, in B. Derman, R.Odegaard & E. Sjaastasd (eds), Conflicts over Land and Water in Africa, Oxford: James Currey 2006 ’Remedies of Recreation and Multiple Sources of Knowledge: Negotiations, Sorcery and Society in Zanzibar’, Paper presented at The Maritime Heritage and Cultures of the Western Indian Ocean in Comparative Perspective, The British Institute of Eastern Africa, British Museum & Zanzibar Department of Archives, Museums and Antiquities, Zanzibar 11-13. July 2006, ‘Uheldige omstendigheter, sosiale relasjoner og forandelighet. En diskusjon omkring helbredelsesritualer og teknologiske hjelpemidler på Zanzibar’, Paper presented at Homo-Faber – Redskapsbrukeren, Årskonferanse i Norsk antropologisk Forening, Trondheim 19-21. May 2005 ‘Women, Gender and Women Performers and Performing Groups: East Africa’, Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC), Leiden: Brill Publisher, forthcoming 2005 ‘Pleasures, practices and prohibitions: female initiation rituals in Swahili society’, Paper presented at Knut Ch. Myhre & Todd Sander, Beyond Magic and Science: Sexual prohibitions in Sub-Saharan Africa, University of Oslo, March 2004, Kulturforskning og gjenstandssamlinger – historie og utvikling, Kristin Iveland I samarbeid med Kjersti Larsen og Arne Martin Klausen (eds.) J. Bergstøl, A.A. Perminow, A.C. Eek, Kulturhistorier i sentrum, Oslo: Kulturhistorisk Museum, Universitetetet i Oslo 2004, ‘Women Gender and Gender Socialization: Sub-Saharan Africa’, in Suad Joseph (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures vol. 2.Leiden: Brill

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2004, Multiculturalism through Spirit Possession, ISIM Newsletter, No.14 June, International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, Leiden 2004‘Change, Continuity and Contestation: The Politics of Modern Identities in Zanzibar’, in Pat Caplan & Farouk Topan (eds). Swahili Modernities Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, Inc. 2004, Christian Spirits in a Muslim Society: Intercultural Exchanges and Multicultural Experiences in Zanzibar, paper presented at The Western Indian Ocean Rim in the Longue Durée – Local Trade and Tradition, Translocal Exchange, University of Bergen, 18-20 June, 2003, Mobility, Identity and Belonging: The Case of the Hawawir, Northern Sudan, N. Shanmugaratnam, R Lund & K. Stølen (eds.). In The Maze of Displacement, Høyskoleforlaget, 2003 2003, ‘Christian Spirits in Muslim Societies: Multiculturalism, Religion and Identity in Zanzibar’, paper presented at the workshop: Performing Difference: Possession, Identity and Otherness, AAA Annual Meeting, Chicago Nov. 2003 2002, ‘Forced to Stay – Forced to Migrate: Ways and Meanings of Mobility among the Hawawir of Northern Sudan, Paper presented at Dynamics of Displacement in Situations of Conflict, University of Oslo, December, 2002 2002, ‘Mobility, identity and Perceptions of a Good Life: The Case of the Hawaweer, Northern Sudan, UKM’s skrifter, University of Oslo, 2002 2002, ‘Knowledge, Astrology and the Power of Healing in Zanzibar’, Afrique-Arabie: D’une rive à l’autre, en mer Erythree, Journal des Africanistes 72 (2) 2002: 175-186, Paris, Musée de l’homme 2001, ‘Initiation Rituals, Suppression and Power: Re-searching Gender in Zanzibar’. Paper presented at the seminar: Research as Re-vision: Practices and Theories in Cross-Cultural Gender Research, Centre for CrossCultural Research on Women, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, February 2001 2001, ‘Um Jawasir Project, Sudan: Irrigated Agriculture and Rehabilitation of Displaced Nomads’. Ruth Haug & Josie Teurlings (eds). Successes in Rural Development, Agricultural University of Aas: Noragric 2001, ‘Spirit Possession as Oral History: Negotiating Islam and Social Status’, Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti (ed). Islam in East Africa: New Sources, Roma: Herder, 2001 2001, ‘Forced to Migrate – Told to Return: The Case of the Hawaweer of Northern Sudan.’ Noragric Working Paper No 23, 2000, ‘Curing with Water in Zanzibar’, Paper presented at CCCRW, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, November 2000, ‘The Other Side of Nature: Expanding Tourism, Changing Landscapes and Problems of Privacy in Urban Zanzibar’, in, Vigdis Broch-Due & Richard Scroeder (eds.) Producing Nature and Poverty in Africa. Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1999,‘Land, identity and Belonging among the Hawaweer of Northern Sudan’. Paper presented at the seminar; Forced Migration, Resource Conflicts and Development. Oslo March 17-18, 1999, ‘Women with Spirits and Women Without: Perceptions of Health and Illness in Zanzibar.’ Centre for Cross Cultural Studies on Women, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford May 1999, ’Kosmologi og Rituelt Liv’. Finn Sivert Nielsen & Olaf Smedal (eds) Himmel og Jord: tradisjon, tendenser og teorier i sosialantropologien, Oslo: Fagbokforlaget 1999. 1998, ’From Nomadism to Farming: The Case of the Hawaweer of Northern Sudan.’ Paper presented at the Workshop on Human Adaptation in African Drylands, Khartoum 7-11 December 1998.

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1998, ‘Spirit Possession as Historical Narrative: The Production of Identity and Locality in Zanzibar Town’, in, Lovell (ed.) Locality and Belonging London: Routledge 1998. 1998, ‘Morality and the Rejection of Spirits: A Zanzibari Case’, Social Anthropology Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998. 1998, ‘To Feel the Spirits - To Suffer the Spirits’, in Impuls, Tidsskrift for psykologi 1, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo 1995, Where Humans and Spirits Meet: Incorporating Difference and Experiencing Otherness in Zanzibar Town, Ph.D. thesis, University of Oslo 1994, ‘Religious Innovation and the Role of Women: A Zanzibari Case’. The Nordic African Institute, Christians and Muslims in Contemporary Africa: Religious, Social and Political Perspectives, Uppsala, August 25-28 1993, ‘Knowledge, Gender Identity and Social Change: Different forms of knowledge in Zanzibar Town’, Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift 1, 1993 1991, ‘Female Initiation Rituals in Zanzibar Town: Reflections on Gender Identity and Processes of Social Change’, in A. Stølen (ed.) Gender, Culture and Power in Developing Countries, vol 1.Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) University of Oslo, 1990, Unyago - From Girl to Woman: The Formation of Female Gender Identity in the Light of Initiation Rituals, Religiosity and Processes of Modernisation’, Occasional Papers in Social Anthropology, no. 22, University of Oslo

Invited International lectures 2008, ‘Regime Change, TV, Video Films and Ethnicity in Zanzibar’, Ethnicity and Identity Seminar, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, 1st February. 2005, ‘Female initiation rituals in Swahili society, Centre d’Africaines’, Centre d’Études Africaines, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, May. 2005, Culture, Cosmology and Islam on the East African Coast, Centre d’Africaines, Centre d’Études Africaines, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, June , 2005. 2004, ‘The Power of Ritual Language, International Institute for The Study of Islam in the Modern World, Leiden, November 2004 1999, ‘Spirit Possession as Historical Narratives: Identity and Locality in Zanzibar Town’, Centre d’Études Africaines, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris,June 1999. 1999, ‘Forced to Migrate – Told to Return: Land, Identity and Belonging among the Hawaweer of Northern Sudan’, Centre d’ Études Africanes, St. Denise University, Paris, June 1999. 1998, ‘Economic Growth, Expanding Tourism and Local Discourses on Culture: The Case of Zanzibar’, Department of Development Studies. NTNU, University of Trondheim, November 1998 1998, ‘Islam, Spirit Possession and Trance in Zanzibar’, Centre d'Etudes Africaines, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, January 1998 1998, ‘Identity, Locality and Notions of Place: The case of Zanzibar’, Centre d'Etudes Africaines, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, January, 1998 1996, ‘On the Dichotomy of Mind and Body: Some African Examples’, Department of the History of Religion, University of Lund October 1996

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1995, ‘People, Spirits, and Tribes: Conceptualising Difference in Zanzibar Town’, Department of the History of Religion, Lund University, March 1995. 1994, ‘To Feel the Spirits - To Suffer the Spirits: Self, Body and Spirits in Zanzibar Town’, Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, May 1994 1993, ‘Gendered Spirits - Gendered Persons: A Case Study from Zanzibar Town’, Goldsmith College, University of London, November 1993 1993, ‘Women, Men and Gendered Spirits in Zanzibar Town’, Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies on Women, University of Oxford, October, 1993 1993, ‘Spirits and the Concept of Personhood: Methodological Problems Studying Spirit Possession in Zanzibar Town’, Department of History of Religion, University of Lund, June 1993 1992, ‘Masheitani and Ngoma ya Sheitani in Zanzibar Town: A ritual analysis’, Department of History of Religion, University of Lund, April 1992

Book Review: 1997, Finn Sivert Nielsen (ed). 1996, Nærmere kommer du ikke.... Håndbok i antropologisk feltarbeid. Oslo: Fagbokforlaget. Anmeldt i; Nytt Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift nr. 1 2006, Allison Shaw & Shirley Ardener (eds). 2005, Changing Sex and Bending Gender, Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, no 3-4, Conferences/seminars attended: 1990: Nordic Symposium on Gender and Social Change in Developing Countries. Granvolden, Norway.Oct.1114 1991: National Research Seminar for Social Anthropologists, Bergen, Norway, May 2-3 1991: Religious Rituals. Donnerska Institutets Symposium, Åbo, Finland. Aug. 14-16 1992: Social Anthropology in a Changing World. European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Prague, Czechoslovakia, August 28-31 1993: ASA IV Decennial Conference, St.Catherine’s College, Oxford, England July 26.-30 1994: Perspectives on Moralities, Knowledge and Power. EASA Conference, Oslo, Norway, June 24-27 1994: Christians and Muslims in Contemporary Africa: Religious, Social and Political Perspectives. Uppsala, Sweden Aug. 25 -28 1996: Conference on African Politics. Centre of Development and Environment, Oslo University, Norway March 25-26 1996: Gender relations in Development. The North/South Coalition, Norway, May 14 1996: Culture and Economy: Conflicting Intrests, Divided Loyalties, 4th Biennal EASA Conference Barcelona Spain. July 12-15 1996: Political Islam in North Africa and The Middle East, The North/South Coalition, Oslo, Norway. 8. November 1996: National Conference in Social Anthropology. Sundvolden. Norway November 25-27 1997: Agricultural Development: productivity, Distribution and Environment, March 11-12, Asker, Norway. Arr.: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NORAD, Noragric, Agricultural University of Norway. 1997: Betydningen av å bo i lokale hushold/familier/bofellesskap under feltarbeid. Seminar: Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. Lysebu 18 - 19 May 1997: The Politics of Poverty and Environmental Interventions. Nordic African Institute 22 – 25, May 1997: People, Food and the Environment. 200 Years after Malthus, Norwegian Association for Development Research. Centre for International Environment and Development Studies, Agricultural University of Ås, June 12-13 1998: Development Ethics, The Norwegian Association for Development Research (NFU) Organised by the University of Oslo, Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), Oslo June 5-6. 1998: The Politics of Anthropology: Conditions for Thought and Practice, 5th Biennial EASA Conference. Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, September 4-7

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1998: Organisation for social science research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA): Workshop on Human Adaptation in African Drylands, Khartoum 7-11 December. 1999: Forced Migration, Resource Conflicts and Development. Seminar organised by the Norwegian Research Council (NFR). Oslo, Soria Moria, March 17-18 1999: International Colloquium: Islam in East Africa: New Sources. Conference organised by University of Roma, La Sapenza and Tor Vergata. Roma, December 2-4. 2000: Migration and Reconstruction of Livelihoods and Identities. The Centre for Development and the Environment, Oslo University, Hurdalsjøen, Norway – March 23-26. 2000: 6th Biennial EASA Conference – Krakow, 26-30 July. Crossing Categorial Boundaries: Religion as Politics/Politics as Religion. 2001: Gender, Islam and Human Rights in Africa and the Middle East. Norfa workshop: The Carsten Niebuhr Institute, Copenhagen, April 2001: Fifth Anglo-French Swahili Workshop. School of Oriental and African Studies, London, September 2002:‘Civil Society and the Public Sphere in Muslim Societies’, ISIM and the KNAW research group, Friday 26 April, Amsterdam 2002: Dynamics of Displacement in Situations of Conflict Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo 2003: American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting Chicago 17-21. November 2004: The Western Indian Ocean Rim in the Longue Durée – Local Trade and Tradition, Translocal Exchange, University of Bergen, 18-20 June 2004: Adaptation and Climate Change in African Drylands, Dept. of Geography, Kings College, University of London, 10. September 2005: Pleasures, practices and prohibitions: female initiation rituals in Swahili society, paper presented at a workshop at University of Oslo 30. April, Knut Ch. Myhre, Beyond Magic and Science: Sexual prohibitions in Sub-Saharan Africa 2005: Organizer and Convenor of, The 6th Swahili workshop/Table ronde: Knowledge, Renewal and Religion, Department of Ethnography, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo 30. Mars - 2.April 2004 2006, Convenor of Workshop: Ritualer og Redskaper, Homo-Faber – Redskapsbrukeren, Årskonferanse i Norsk antropologisk Forening, Trondheim 19-21. mai 2006, The Maritime Heritage and Cultures of the Western Indian Ocean in Comparative Perspective, The British Institute of East Africa, Zanzibar 11-13. July

Teaching, supervision and exam committees 1998 -present: Sakkyndig bedømmelseskomite (qualified selecting committee) for Ph.D. positions, posdoc fellowship, associate professor positions in Norway, Sweden, Denmark 1998-present: PhD working seminars, courses, Doctoral dissertation committees. 1996 -present: Social Anthropology, Management of Natural Resources and Sustainable Agriculture, Agricultural University of Norway. 1991- present: Supervision. At present I supervise student at all levels including Ph.D. 1991- present: Exam related work at all levels at Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo and Agricultural University of Norway. 1996: Course in Anthropology. Department of Psychology, University of Oslo 1996–1995: Educational Officer, Gender and Society, Faculty of Social Science, University of Oslo. 1990-1994: Part time lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. 1993-1996: Lecturer, Prio's Peace Research Course at International Summer School; The University of Oslo and The International Peace Research Institute, on the following themes: Rituals and Identity, Engendering Anthropology, Women and Social Conflict 1985: Prepared and carried through a seminar on the Problems of Development at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, together with fellow students 1984: Prepared and carried through a seminar on Women and Development, at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo in co-operation with a fellow student.

Curriculum development 2005-2006: Sosialantropologiske perspektiver på materiell kultur: Representasjon og sosial hukommelse i en museumskontekst, Sos.ant.2000, Sosialantropologisk institutt, UiO 2004: Gender, Tradition and Modernity, sosant2240, UiO, in cooperation with Elisabeth L’orange Furst 1997-present: Course in Development Studies at Ph.D. level. Centre for International Environment and Developments Studies, Agricultural University of Norway, Ås

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1996 - present: Course in Social Anthropology at Management of Natural Resources and Sustainable Agriculture, Agricultural University of Norway, Ås. 1996 -1995 Semester courses in Gender and Society, Faculty of Social Science, University of Oslo 1996: Semester course in Anthropology, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo. 1996: Course in; Gender, Rituals and the Body. Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo.

Consultancy: 2007, Facilitating Board meeting, Sudan Dry-land Co-ordination Group, Khatoum, May 2007 2005, Facilitating Board meeting, Sudan Dry-land Co-ordination Group, Khatoum, Dec. 2005 2003, Facilitating workshop on, ‘Gender and Rural Development’, Dry-land Co-ordination Group and ADRA Sudan, Sudan 2003 2002, Study on Perceptions of Sedentarization of Nomads. The case of the Hawawir in Um Jawasir in Northern Sudan, Drylands Coordination Group, Head of Mission Team, Sudan, September, 2002 2001, Perceptions of Knowledge and Coping Strategies in a Nomadic Community in Northern Sudan, A Study on behalf of the Dry-land Co-ordination Group, July-August, 2001 2000, Facilitating workshop on ‘Gender and Rural Development’, Dry-land Co-Ordination Group and CAREEthiopia, Addis Ababa, February 1998, Case Studies on Gender Issues and Development of an Improved Focus on Women in Natural Resource Management and Agricultural Projects, Sudan, The Dry land Co-ordination Group. Head of Mission Team, Ethiopia September 1998 1998, Case Studies on Gender Issues and Development of an Improved Focus on Women in Natural Resource Management and Agricultural Projects, Sudan, The Dry land Co-ordination Group. Head of Mission Team, Sudan August 1998 1997, Review of The Um Jawasir Project in Sudan: The SSE Program. Mission Team in Sudan, June 1997 1997, Mid-term Review, Norad founded Programme for Management of Natural resources and Environmental Planning in Tanzania (TAN 092). Member of Mission Team in Tanzania January-February 1997 Reports 1997 Sandlund, T, Bryceson,I, Larsen,K Maro,W.E& Kulindwa,K : Management of Natural resources and Environmental Planning in Tanzania (TAN 092). Mid-term Review. NODE Norwegian Consortium for Development and Environment & The Economic Research Bureau (ERB) University of Dar-es-Salaam (ISBN 82 - 426 - 0814 -8. 1997 F.H. Johnsen & K. Larsen: Second Review of the Um Jawasir Project, Sudan. Noragric, Agricultural University of Norway 1998 Kjersti Larsen & Manal Hassan: Review of Um Jawasir Environmental Rehabilitation and Development Project, Implemented by Adra, Sudan. A Case Study on gender Issues and Development of an Improved Focus on Women in Natural Resource Management and Agricultural Projects, Sudan, August 1998 Kjersti Larsen & Simon Rye: Review of Wag Environmental Rehabilitation and Development Programme, Implemented by Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), Ethiopia. A Case Study on Gender Issues and Development of an Improved Focus on Women in Natural Resource Management and Agricultural Projects, Ethiopia, September 1998 Trond Vedeld & Kjersti Larsen: Small Farmers, Gender and Access to Land and Natural Resources in Africa. Centre for International Environment and Development Studies, Noragric. Agricultural University of Norway 2000, Gunnvor Berge, Kjersti Larsen & Simon Rye: Gender Issues and Development of an Improved Focus on Women in Natural Resource Management and Agricultural Projects. Synthesis Report and Four Case Studies, Dry Lands Co-ordination Group, Noragric Agricultural University of Norway 2000, Lov om erverv og tap av norsk statsborgerskap (Statsborgerloven), NOU, Norges offentlige utredninger. Statens forvaltningstjeneste. Informasjonsforvaltning. 2001, Kjersti Larsen & Manal Hassan: Perceptions of Knowledge and Coping Strategies in a Nomadic Community in Northern Sudan, A Study, Dry-land Co-ordination Group, Noragric Agricultural University of Norway 2002, Kjersti Larsen & Manal Hassan: Study on Perceptions of Sedentarization of Nomads. The Case of the Hawawir in Um Jawasir in Northern Sudan, Drylands Coordination Group, Noragric, Agricultural University of Norway

Other Administration/Management 2003-2006, Administration according to the general regulation of Head of Department, Univ. Oslo

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2001-present, Administration according to the general regulation of Associate Professor Positions, Univ. Oslo 1996-present, Administration according to the general regulation of Associate Professor Positions at NLH 1995 -1996, Adviser, Immigration Department; Norwegian Ministry of Justice 1990 Executive Officer, Immigration Department, Oslo Municipality 1981-1988, Centre for Abused Women, Krisesentergruppa i Oslo

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