Line Nyhagen

Professor Line Nyhagen

Small Group Project 2022-23

Mixed relationships, racialised boundaries and white normativity in European Societies. Exploring the lived experiences, identities and representations of black/white interracial families between 1920s-present

With David Herbert & Elizabeth Mavroudi & Iris Wigger

Social boundaries associated with 'race' and identity and the historical legacy of European dominance have become increasingly contested in our contemporary world. With broader public discussions emerging about mixed-race, bi-racial and interracial identities, anti-black stereotyping and problems of white historical amnesia, privilege and ignorance, and the legitimacy of age-old statues and symbols of white European colonial domination under new public scrutiny, it is imperative for independent, critical social research to engage with, investigate and better understand the roles, complex lived experiences and shifting identities of mixed race people in Europe’s past and present.

More information

Areas of interest

Sociology Religion Gender Feminism Citizenship Discrimination

Cohort

FG8

Biography

Line is an expert on religion, gender, feminism and citizenship. Her interdisciplinary research examines women's and men's religious, gendered and racialised identities and their experiences of discrimination and barriers to citizenship in everyday life. She has also conducted research on feminism and women's movements in Europe. In addition, she researches inequalities in higher education. Line is co-editor of the Springer Link/Palgrave book series Citizenship, Gender and Diversity and welcomes book proposals for the series. Line is the main lead (together with Dr Kerri Akiwowo and Prof James Esson) of the Mini-Doctoral Training Centre ‘Unequal Academic Citizenship: Opportunities and Barriers to Participation and Inclusion of Cultural Diversity and Intersecting Identities in Higher Education’ (CITHEI; 2021-2025). Line was appointed Head of Department for Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy in 2021. During 2020-21, she was Loughborough's Institutional Lead for the ESRC Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership. In 2020, her research on race and ethnicity as barriers to student achievement in higher education was shortlisted for a CALIBRE Research Award. Under her leadership as School Champion for Athena SWAN (2016-2019), the School of Social Sciences and Humanities achieved the Athena SWAN Bronze Award in 2019. Line received the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Learning and Teaching in 2018 and Loughborough University’s Research-Informed Teaching Award in 2016. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Line obtained her PhD and MA in Sociology from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, USA, and has MA and BA degrees in Political Science from the University of Bergen, Norway. At the start of 2023, Line was appointed adjunct professor at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL) in Bergen, Norway.

Biographical details correct as of 20.04.26