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• Gabriella Elgenius, BA, MSc PhD, is a Research Fellow at University of Oxford, where she is working within the ESCR large-scale research project on identities evaluating whether or not traditional identities are in decline. Gabriella used to be a Ma...More

  Gabriella Elgenius, BA, MSc PhD, is a Research Fellow at University of Oxford, where she is working within the ESCR large-scale research project on identities evaluating whether or not traditional identities are in decline. Gabriella used to be a Marie Curie Fellow at the London School of Economics, where she completed her PhD entitled Expressions of Nationhood: National Symbols & Ceremonies in Contemporary Europe under the supervision of Professor Anthony D. Smith. She has been giving the undergraduate course on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Racism in modern Europe since 2000 at Birbeck College, and European Thought and Society at School of Oriental and African Studies. Her main research interests are: collective (national and ethnic) identities, nationalism, symbolism, ethnic conflicts and racism in Europe. Publications include “The Appeal of Nationhood: Celebrating and Commemorating the Nation” In Smith, Anthony (eds.), (2006) The Persistence of Nations. Routledge. 2006; “The Ceremonial Structure of Europe: what and how does Europe celebrate?”, 2005; "National Days and Nationbuilding: a contemporary survey" In Eriksonas & Müller (eds), Statehood Beyond Ethnicity (Peter Lang Academic Publishers, 2005). Forthcoming publicantion include: “Ceremonies of Social Exclusion: ethnicity, gender and national ceremonies” In Rudomentof, Victor (eds.), (2006) The Politics of Collective Memory: Theory, Contexts & Contests. Routledge, (forthcoming 2006); “Flagging the Nation: ‘New’ Nations and their Symbols”. 2006. Article in Process; “The Symbolic Expressions of Independence: Norway versus Sweden or away with the ‘herring salad’”. 2006. The last two articles are to be presented at the LSE Annual Conference 2006: Nations and their Pasts: Representing the Past, Building the Future Other articles in process include: “The Symbolic Regimes of Europe: A new categorisation of the nations in Europe”; “Symbols and Ceremonies of Controversy: from the Bastille to the Star of Verghina”. Less

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