Katrine Fangen
Katrine Fangen | |
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| Occupations | Sociologist, academic, and author |
| Academic background | |
| Education | MA (Magister Artium) in Sociology PhD (Dr. Polit.) in Sociology |
| Alma mater | University of Oslo (UiO) |
| Thesis | Pride and Power: A Sociological Interpretation of Norwegian radical nationalist underground movement (2001) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) |
| Notable works | En bok om nynazister (2022) |
Katrine Fangen is a Norwegian sociologist, academic, and author. She is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo (UiO) in Norway, and a Thematic Leader at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) for Ideology & Identity and Gender & Extremism research areas.
Fangen's research centers on the intersections of nationalism, right-wing populism, migration and social movements. She has authored books including En bok om nynazisme, Deltagende observasjon, Identitet og praksis: etnisitet, klasse og kjønn blant somaliere i Norge, Inclusion and Exclusion of Young Adult Migrants in Europe: Barriers and Bridges, and Young Migrants: Exclusion and Belonging in Europe. For her doctoral thesis, she received His Majesty the King's Gold Medal for Excellent Young Researchers from the UiO in 2000.
Fangen was Chair of the Sociology Panel at the Independent Research Fund Denmark from 2022 until 2024. She served as the editor of the Nordic Journal of Youth Research (YOUNG) from 2006 to 2019, with the role of main editor from 2014 to 2019 and was a co-editor of the journal Social Inclusion from 2012 to 2016.