Naja Dyrendom Graugaard

Naja Dyrendom Graugaard is a Danish-Kalaaleq(inuk) researcher with an expertise in critical Inuit studies and (de)colonial relations between Denmark and Kalaallit Nunaat. Concerned with the dominance of colonial knowledge regimes and Danish exceptionalism in contemporary cultural manifestations of Scandinavian colonialism, Graugaard's research attends to alternative, decolonial, and Indigenous narratives, Kalaallit lived experiences, and Inuit knowledge systems. Besides her academic endeavors, she also engages in different forms of public dissemination on Nordic colonial histories through debates, workshop facilitation, performance, and video-logs. Graugaard has also published poetic, theatrical, and auto-biographical writings that shed light on the (inter)generational experiences of colonization, racialization, and resurgence in mixed, Indigenous families in Denmark.