Ólafur Rastrick, PhD, Cultural historian, Professor of European Ethnology, rastrick@hi.is
I am a cultural historian by training, specialising in the fields of cultural heritage and modern Iceland. I earned a PhD from the Department of History at the University of Iceland in 2012 and have held a post at the Department of Folklore, Ethnology and Museum studies since 2014, serving as Head of Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics 2022-2024. I teach and research in areas of critical heritage studies, body culture, subculture and everyday life. My current research focuses on sensory encounters in the urban landscape and people place-relations in context of the tangible heritage of the urban space.
Vísindavefurinn: Hvaða rannsóknir hefur Ólafur Rastrick stundað