Dr. Solveig Marie Wang

Solveig Marie Wang is an interdisciplinary researcher of medieval Fennoscandia at the University of Greifswald. Solveig received her MA-degree in history at the University of Aberdeen in 2018 and defended her PhD thesis ‘Decolonising Medieval Fennoscandia: Norse-Saami Relations in the Medieval Period’ at the same university in 2021. Solveig is the managing editor of the interdisciplinary and Open Access periodical Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies (https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/apardjn-journal-for-scandinavian-studies--1802.php). She is also affiliated with the research group Creating the New North: Manifestations of Central Power in the North AD 500-1800 at the Arctic University of Norway. Solveig’s main research interests lie in the medieval north, with a specific focus on the historiography of Indigenous peoples, postcolonial frameworks, cross-cultural contact and concepts like fluidity. At the University of Greifswald she is part of the project ‘Mission Before Colonisation: A Reassessment of Religious Contact in Greenland and Sápmi, 1000-1550’.

‘Decolonising Norse Studies: Colonial Strategies and the Saami as the Other in Scholarship’, Kyngervi, 3 (2021) [forthcoming]

Apardjón Volume 2, ed. by Hannah Booth, Heidi Synnøve Djuve, Deniz Cem Gülen, Ingrid Hegland, Jennifer Hemphill, Simon Nygaard, Alessandro Palumbo, Solveig Marie Wang and Jessie Yusek (Aberdeen: Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies, 2021)

Grettis rímur, trans. by Lee Colwill, ed. by Hannah Booth, Heidi Synnøve Djuve, Deniz Cem Gülen, Ingrid Hegland, Jennifer Hemphill, Solveig Marie Wang and Jessie Yusek (Aberdeen: Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies, 2021)

‘Conceptualizing the Multi-Cultural North of the Íslendingasögur: Peoples, Places and Phenomena’, Nordlit, 46 (2020), pp. 245-262

Apardjón Volume 1, ed. by Daniel Cutts, Heidi Synnøve Djuve, Deniz Cem Gülen, Ingrid Hegland, Jennifer Hemphill, Solveig Marie Wang and Caroline Wilhelmsson (Aberdeen: Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies, 2020)