Kjersti Gravelsæter Berg

Associate Professor Intercultural Studies

NLA University College Sandviken, Bergen

55 54 07 82
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Kjersti G. Berg is a Middle East researcher and historian working on the Palestine-Israel conflict.&nbsp;
Key research interests are forced migration, refugee camps, UNRWA, humanitarianism and international aid, Jerusalem. &nbsp;
Kjersti is the author of&nbsp;<a style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease 0s; color: #447945; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #a9cf98;" href="https://www.universitetsforlaget.no/palestina-fakta-pa-bakken">Palestine. Facts on the ground</a>&nbsp;(Scandinavian University Press 2023). With Are J. Knudsen, she co-edited the book&nbsp;<a style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease 0s; color: #447945; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #a9cf98;" href="https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/KnudsenContinental">Continental Encampment. The Genealogy of humanitarian containment in the Middle East</a>&nbsp;(Berghahn 2023). She&nbsp;co-curated the photo exhibition&nbsp;<a style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease 0s; color: #447945; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #a9cf98;" href="https://marcus.uib.no/exhibition/mer-enn-det-humanitare-blikket">More than the humanitarian gaze. J&oslash;rgen Grinde&rsquo;s photography from the Middle East in the 1950s</a>&nbsp;at the University Library, University of Bergen (2023).&nbsp;Her articles have been published in various journals, such as Jerusalem Quarterly and the Journal of Refugee Studies.&nbsp;
The title of her PhD dissertation (University of Bergen 2015) is "Unending Temporary. United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the politics of Palestinian refugee camps."&nbsp;
Kjersti has led and contributed to numerous reports commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and to the United Nations.&nbsp;
Between 2019-2023 Kjersti co-managed the research project &ldquo;Super Camp: Genealogies of humanitarian containment in the Middle East (Norwegian Research Council).
Kjersti is also working on Muslim immigrants in Norway, and contributes to the ongoing research project "Invisible Ceiling: Muslim Immigrant Entrepeneurs Navigate Norway&rsquo;s Financial Environment"&nbsp;
Kjersti is the editor of "Palestine", SNL,&nbsp;<a style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease 0s; color: #447945; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #a9cf98;" href="https://snl.no/Palestina">Store Norske Leksikon</a>&nbsp;and a member of prize comittee,&nbsp;<a style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease 0s; color: #447945; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #a9cf98;" href="https://www.rafto.no/">The Rafto Foundation for Human Rights</a>.

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