Boards and councils

Study board

  • Quality assurance of teaching and education
  • Curricula
  • Evaluations
  • Dispensation and credit transfer

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Chair

  • Birgitte Schepelern Johansen (Other subjects, Cross-Cultural and Material Culture Studies) 
    Email: sn-tors@hum.ku.dk

Vice-chair

  • Peter Alexander Woller (East European Studies)

Deputy chair

  • Ulla Prien (academic staff member, Middle Eastern Studies)
  • 1st alternate: Claus Valling Pedersen 
  • 2nd alternate: Kræn Kielsgaard Hansen
  • 3rd alternate: Troels Pank Arbøll

Members - academic staff

  • Barbara Wall (Asia Studies)
  • 1st alternate: Susan Aagaard Petersen 
  • 2nd alternate: Elmar Josef Renner
  • Tim Rudbøg (Study of Religions)
  • 1st alternate: Morten Warmind
  • Martin Schou Madsen (East European Studies)
  • 1st alternate: Mikhail Suslov
  • 2nd alternate: Anita Pluwak

 Members - students

  • Sára Jacobsen (Study of Religions)
  • Emma Asnæs Kattrup (Other subjects, Cross-Cultural and Material Culture Studies)
  • Sebastian Mærsk Maron (Asia Studies)
  • Yasemin Gül (Middle Eastern Studies)

Alternates - students

  • Julie Mikhailovna Thomsen (East European Studies, 1st alternate)
  • Sarah Bürgel Sindal Nielsen (Asia Studies), temporarily withdrawn during the autumn term 2026
  • Haridha Harikrishnan (Asia Studies, 1st alternate), will not be joining in the autumn term 2026
  • Bastian Gautam Wolter Larsen (Asia Studies, 2nd alternate), will not be joining in the autumn term 2026
  • Amanda Kirk Pedersen (Asia Studies, 3rd alternate), will not be joining in the autumn term 2026
  • Ida Klovborg Olsen (Middle Eastern Studies), temporarily withdrawn 1 September – 31 December 2026
  • Ayo Reinkilde Lauberg (Middle Eastern Studies, 1st alternate), will not be joining in the autumn term 2026

Observers

  • AC study guides
  • Head of Studies

  • 9 September at 13:15-15:15
  • 30 September at 13:15-15:15
  • 28 October at 13:15-15:15
  • 18 November at 13:15-15:15
  • 16 December at 13:15-15:15
  • 13 January at 13:15-15:15 (preliminarily booked)

Collaboration committee

  • Department target plans and strategies
  • Budget and economy
  • Physical and psychological working environment
  • Personal policies

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Management representatives

  • Annika Hvithamar, Head of Department (chair)
  • Eva Maria Christiansen, Head of Administration

Staff representatives

  • Brian Arly Jacobsen, Associate Professor (deputy chair)
  • Martin Schou Madsen, Teaching Associate Professor
  • Kenneth Wehr, PhD student
  • Sadaf Hussain, administrative staff member
  • Charlott Hoffmann Jensen, administrative staff member

Secretary

  • Anne Korsholm Bergenholtz, administrative staff member

Alternates for the management representatives

  • Jesper Nielsen, Deputy Head of Department for Education and Head of Studies
  • Trine Brox, Deputy Head of Department for Research

Alternates for the staff representatives

  • Maria Lindebæk Schmidt Lyngsøe, Postdoc
  • Magnus Børlum Dam Olesen, administrative staff member

Occupational health and safety group

  • Physical and psychological working environment
  • Follow-up on the workplace assessment (APV)
  • Prevention of workplace accidents and injuries

The group is the department's division of the Occupational Health and Safety Organisation (OHSO) at UCPH.

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Management representatives

  • Annika Hvithamar, Head of Department (chair)
  • Eva Maria Christiansen, Head of Administration

Staff representatives

  • Frank Sejersen, Associate Professor (at Strandgade)
  • Anne Korsholm Bergenholtz (South Campus, administrative staff member)
  • Anna Helena Alexandra Krakus (South Campus, academic staff member)

Research committee

  • Organising research at the department
  • Research strategies and proposals
  • PhD programme

The Research committee meets twice per semester, some semesters with an additional meeting.

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Chair

  • Trine Brox, Deputy Head of Department for Research

Academic staff members 

  • Tea Sindbæk Andersen, Associate Professor
  • Christophe Helmke, Associate Professor
  • Susrita Das, PhD student
  • Andreas Bandak, Associate Professor
  • Simon Stjernholm, Associate Professor and PhD coordinator
  • Annika Hvithamar, Head of Department
  • Fiona Carew Dahlager, PhD student
  • Elena Meyer-Clement, Associate Professor
  • Ida Hartmann, Assistant Professor
  • Catharina Raudvere, Professor
  • Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, Professor
  • Asta Mønsted, Postdoc

Secretary

  • Charlott Hoffmann Jensen, administrative staff member

Faculty board

The Faculty board is responsible for the department’s overall academic development, including the academic content of the department’s strategic objectives and action plans, recruitment plans, staffing plans, etc.

The Faculty board meets twice per semester, some semesters with an additional meeting.

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Chair

  • Frank Sejersen, Associate Professor, Cross-Cultural Studies and Greenlandic and Arctic Studies

Deputy chair

  • Annika Hvithamar, Head of Department

Management representatives

  • Jesper Nielsen, Deputy Head of Department for Education
  • Trine Brox, Deputy Head of Department for Research

Academic staff members

  • Astrid Krabbe Trolle, Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, Study of Religion
  • Christine Aster Crone, Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, Middle Eastern Studies
  • Fredrik Hagen, Professor, Ancient Culture Studies
  • Mikkel Bunkenborg, Associate Professor, Asia Studies
  • Tine Roesen, Associate Professor, East European Studies

Secretary

  • Magnus Børlum Dam Olesen, administrative staff member