Background
I teach and research religious studies and human rights. My area of specialization is the interaction between law and religion in theory, history and social and political practices. I have previously worked at the United Nations Association of Norway, the Norwegian Immigration Appeals Board, at the University of Oslo and at the Scandinavian University Press. I am editor for Norway at the Eurel database on legal and sociological data on religion in Europe, and part of the ongoing research projects Non-Religion in a Complex Future at the University of Ottawa and The Governmateriality of Indigenous Religions at the universities in Bergen and Tromsø. I am a guest researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, where I am directing the research project Out of step or leading light? The role of French secularism as inspiration for Nordic law and policy on Religion
Overviews of my publications are available at ORCID, and can be viewed and downloaded at Cristin.