Biography

Dr. Karina Horsti is Visiting Professor in Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota (2023-2025). She is University Lecturer in Cultural Policy at the University of Jyväskylä. She has been Visiting Fellow at Freie University Berlin (2022), New York University (2009, 2011 - 2012, 2019), London School of Economics and Political Science (2016), and Melbourne University (2017). Karina has developed a multidisciplinary profile in transnational migration research by successfully completing research on cultural diversity policies, nationalist populism, mediated representations of refugees and asylum seekers, and memory politics of migrant deaths at Europe's borders. She is the author of Survival and Witness at Europe's Border: Afterlives of a Disaster (Cornell University Press, 2023). Karina has delivered invited plenary talks at University of Minnesota, University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Tulane University, Salzburg University, University of Tübingen, and University of Naples Federico II. She has served as expert evaluator for several institutions and publishers such as European Commission, COST (European cooperation in science and technology), Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), Oxford University Press, and Routledge. She is a member of Social, Political and Communication Sciences Panel, Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium, and of Border Criminologies, Oxford University.