Person
Senior Lecturer
- Archaeology
- Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
Director of Studies
- Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
Contact information
E-mail fredrik.ekengrenark.luse
Phone +46 46 222 79 36
Mobile +46 70 408 26 46
Room A123
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
Born 1976 in Hassela, Hälsingland. Educated at the Mid Sweden University in Östersund and Lund University. BA in History of Religion and MA in Archaeology. I defended my Ph.D. thesis in archaeology entitled "Ritualization, Hybridization, Fragmentation. The Mutability of Roman Vessels in Germania Magna AD 1-400" in 2009. My research include Iron Age and Early Medieval Europe and Scandinavia, materiality, cultural interaction, ritual theory, the archaeology of death and burial, migration and colonialism, the Swedish colony New Sweden in 17th century North America, as well as the role of archaeology in popular culture.
I teach classes in theory and method as well as in the archaeology of Iron Age Europe and Viking Age Scandinavia.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Dynamic collections (research leader)
- Entrusted to the flames – The ritual technologies of Viking Age cremations (research leader)
- The Archaeology of Death and Burial – Theoretical Perspectives and Methodological Implications (research leader)
- Iron Age Blekinge I: Västra Vång
- Revisiting Nabberör – a Vendel Period boat grave from Öland (research leader)
- Vätteryd – Mortuary Practices on a Late Iron Age Cemetery
- Archaeology and Sci-Fi. Encounters in the borderland between science and fiction (research leader)
- Roman imports in Scania. Cultural networks in local contexts (research leader)
- The social weight of silver in Viking Age Scandinavia (research leader)
- The materiality of slavery in Swedish America, 1638-1800 (research leader)
- Sweden in the Delaware valley. Everyday life and identities in the seventeenth century colony of New Sweden (research leader)
- Exploring how narrative is and can be used to make sense and meaning of death, dying and grief in late modern society
I defended my Ph.D. thesis entitled "Ritualization, Hybridization, Fragmentation. The Mutability of Roman Vessels in Germania Magna AD 1-400" in 2009. My research include Iron Age and Early Medieval Europe and Scandinavia, cultural interaction, ritual theory, the archaeology of death and burial, migration and colonialism, the Swedish colony New Sweden in 17th century North America, as well as the role of archaeology in popular culture.
Books (1)
Editorships (3)
- Naum, M. & Ekengren, F. (2018). (Eds.) Facing Otherness in Early Modern Sweden : Travel, Migration and Material Transformations 1500-1800. Society for Post Medieval Archaeology Monograph, 10. Boydell & Brewer.
- Larsson, L., Ekengren, F., Helgesson, B. & Söderberg, B. (2015). (Eds.) Small Things – Wide Horizons: Studies in Honour of Birgitta Hårdh. Archaeopress Archaeology. Archaeopress.
- Ekengren, F. & Nilsson Stutz, L. (2009). (Eds.) I tillvarons gränsland : perspektiv på kroppen mellan liv och död. Acta Archaeologica Lundensia. Series in 8°, 60. Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens historia, Lunds universitet.
Articles (3)
- Olausson, D. & Ekengren, F. (2014). Editorial. Lund Archaeological Review, 20, 5-5. Institute of Archaeology, University of Lund.
- Olausson, D. & Ekengren, F. (2013). Editorial. Lund Archaeological Review, 19, 5-5. Institute of Archaeology, University of Lund.
- Ekengren, F. (2005). Drinking and the creation of death : New perspectives on Roman vessels in Scandinavian death rituals. Lund Archaeological Review, 10, 45-61. Institute of Archaeology, University of Lund.
Book chapters (14)
- Ekengren, F. (accepted/in press). Death and Display : The Visual Analysis of Mortuary Practices. In de Hemmer Gudme, A. K. & Valkama, K. (Eds.) The Finnish Exegetical Society , Approaching the Dead : Studies on Mortuary Ritual in the Ancient World. Helsinki Univeristy.
- Ekengren, F. (2020). Gunnar Ekholm (1884-1974). In Gräslund, A.-S. (Eds.) Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi, Svenska arkeologer (pp. 177-181), 158. Kungliga Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur.
- Ekengren, F. (2020). Oscar Almgren (1869-1945). In Gräslund, A.-S. (Eds.) Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi, Svenska arkeologer (pp. 99-105), 158. Kungliga Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur.
- Ekengren, F. (2018). Inscribing Indigeneity in the Colonial Landscape of New Sweden, 1638–1655. In Magdalena, N. & Ekengren, F. (Eds.) The Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology Monograph, Facing Otherness in Early Modern Sweden : Travel, Migration and Material Transformations 1500-1800 (pp. 261-288), 10. Boydell & Brewer.
- Naum, M. & Ekengren, F. (2018). Material Transformations : Introduction. In Naum, M. & Ekengren, F. (Eds.) The Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology Monograph, Facing Otherness in Early Modern Sweden : Travel, Migration and Material Transformations, 1500–1800 (pp. 3-4), 10. Boydell & Brewer.
- Naum, M. & Ekengren, F. (2018). Migration and Neighbourly Interactions : Introduction. In Naum, M. & Ekengren, F. (Eds.) The Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology Monograph, Facing Otherness in Early Modern Sweden : Travel, Migration and Material Transformations, 1500–1800 (pp. 107-108), 10. Boydell & Brewer.
- Naum, M. & Ekengren, F. (2018). Overseas Travel : Introduction. In Naum, M. & Ekengren, F. (Eds.) The Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology Monograph, Facing Otherness in Early Modern Sweden : Travel, Migration and Material Transformations 1500-1800 (pp. 241-242), 10. Boydell & Brewer.
- Ekengren, F. & Domeij, M. (2015). The social weight of silver in the Íslendingasögur and the Viking Age hoards. In Larsson, L., Ekengren, F., Helgesson, B. & Söderberg, B. (Eds.) Small Things – Wide Horizons : Studies in Honour of Birgitta Hårdh (pp. 20-26). Archaeopress.
- Ekengren, F. & Nilsson, I.-M. (2015). Bortom stjärnorna : Den klassiska antiken i Star Trek, Stargate och Doctor Who. In Hammar, I. & Zander, U. (Eds.) Svärd, sandaler och skandaler : Antiken på film och i tv (pp. 293-309). Studentlitteratur AB.
- Ekengren, F. (2013). Contextualising Grave Goods. Theoretical Perspectives and Methodological Implications. In Nilsson Stutz, L. & Tarlow, S. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial (pp. 173-192). Oxford University Press.
- Ekengren, F. (2013). Materialities on the Move: Identity and Material Culture among the Forest Finns in 17th Century Sweden and America. In Naum, M. & Nordin, J. M. (Eds.) Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity: Small Time Agents in a Global Arena (pp. 147-165). Springer.
- Ekengren, F., Naum, M. & Zagal-Mach Wolfe, U. I. (2013). Sweden in the Delaware Valley: Everyday Life and Material Culture in New Sweden. In Naum, M. & Nordin, J. M. (Eds.) Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity: Small Time Agents in a Global Arena (pp. 169-187). Springer.
- Ekengren, F. & Nilsson Stutz, L. (2009). I tillvarons gränsland : Inledning. In Ekengren, F. & Nilsson Stutz, L. (Eds.) Acta Archaeologica Lundensia Series altera in 8°, I tillvarons gränsland : Perspektiv på kroppen mellan liv och död (pp. 4-17), 60. Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens historia, Lunds universitet.
- Ekengren, F. (2006). Performing death: The function and meaning of Roman drinking vessels in Scandinavian mortuary practices. In Andrén, A., Jennbert, K. & Raudvere, C. (Eds.) Old Norse religion in long-term perspectives: Origins, changes, and interactions: An international conference in Lund, Sweden, June 3-7, 2004 (Vägar till Midgård 8). Nordic Academic Press.
Reviews (1)
Newspaper articles (2)
- Berg, I., Ekengren, F., Isla Venegas, M. & Nilsson Stutz, L. (2016). ”Förtryck och sexuellt våld var förvisso en del av det vikingatida samhället, men kan knappast förmedlas genom pubertal humor.”. Sydsvenskan, 3-3. Sydsvenska Dagbladet.
- Wienberg, J., Brännstedt, L., Ekengren, F. & Tersmeden, F. (2016). Minnesord Ing-Marie Nilsson. Sydsvenskan. Sydsvenska Dagbladet.
Miscellaneous (1)
Administrative
- Member, Faculty Board, Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology
Teaching
Other tasks and qualifications
Editor of the Lund Archaeological Review.
Editor of the publication series Acta Archaeologica Lundensia Series prima in 4°, Acta Archaeologica Lundensia Series altera in 8°, Report Series, and Archaeology@Lund.
Board member of the Swedish Archaeological Society.
Board member of the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology at Lund University.
Member of the Lund University Council for Gender Equality and Equal Opportunities.
Senior Lecturer
- Archaeology
- Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
Director of Studies
- Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
Contact information
E-mail fredrik.ekengrenark.luse
Phone +46 46 222 79 36
Mobile +46 70 408 26 46
Room A123
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30