Vigdis Broch-Due

Vigdis Broch-Due is a Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway, but also holds a special Professoriate in International Poverty Research at the Faculty of Social Sciences. She is currently employed as Scientific Director at Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), Oslo, Norway.

She has an extensive research career in East-Africa focusing on pastoral communities. Another field of expertise is the history poverty and its ethnographic variations, including the European since the Middle Ages, and the British Empire focusing on India and Africa. She has been involved in numerous film documentaries from Kenya, India and South America, and has been involved in the UN’s work on poverty reduction and in the evaluation of humanitarian and development projects.

She has published articles/books on a diverse set of topics: gender and embodiment; cosmology; the relations between animals, people and nature; material culture; environmental history; colonial and postcolonial development regimes; poverty and changing property relations; violence, trauma, and memory; and the formations of trust and mistrust.

Broch-Due’s academic career has taken her from teaching positions in Anthropology at the Universities of Oslo and Washington (Seattle), to the Directorship of a Poverty and Prosperity Research Program at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala to senior research positions at the Universities of Cambridge, SOAS and Rutgers.

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