Anna Källén

Associate Professor in Archaeology at Stockholm University /Chair Professor of Museology at Umeå University (from August 2023)

Her research interests are focused on critical heritage studies and the international history and politics of museums and archaeology. She led an initiative to make Heritage Studies a leading research field at Stockholm University 2016–2021, and there edited the volume Heritage and Borders (2019). She was PI of the multidisciplinary project ‘Code, Narrative, History: Making Sense of Ancient DNA in Contemporary Culture’ 2018–2021, and her most recent book is The Trouble with Ancient DNA (coming at the University of Chicago Press in 2024).
Anna Källén