Jenny Carey Mikkelsen

Research

Doctoral student at Lund University and Guest PhD at RUC with the Environmental Humanities research group.

I'm researching the bog body phenomenon and human-bog relations at the intersections of archaeology, environmental humanities, critical plant studies and more-than-humanism.

I explore the creation and perpetuation of narratives in bog body research, the portrayal of bog bodies as a specific phenomenon, and human-bog relations through time. Influenced by environmental humanities, critical plant studies and feminist political ecology, I'm developing the idea of a critical peat/bog studies, as an interdisciplinary thinking-with peat and moss, to explore what an anthropo(de)centric and distinctly more-than-human-led bog body research could look like in archaeology, in both theory and practice.

Supervisors: Åsa Berggren (LU), Christina Fredengren (SU)