Karina Horsti

Karina Horsti is Visiting Professor at Communication Studies, University of Minnesota (2023-2025). She is on leave from lectureship at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Previously she has been a Visiting Fellow at New York University (2009, 2011 - 2012, 2019), London School of Economics and Political Science (2016), University of Melbourne (2017), and Freie Universität Berlin (2022). Karina's background is in media and migration studies. She has developed a multidisciplinary profile in transnational migration research by successfully completing research on cultural diversity policies, nationalist populism, deportations, and mediated representations of refugees and asylum seekers. Her current research examines public remembering of forced migration.

Karina collaborates with artists, museums, activists, and refugees, and is inspired by multimodal and creative methodologies. She is the author of Survival and Witness at Europe's Border: The Afterlives of a Disaster (September 2023, Cornell University Press). Karina works across disciplines and her work has appeared in peer-reviewed academic journals: New Media & Society, Memory Studies, Citizenship Studies, Patterns of Prejudice, European Journal of Cultural Studies, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Political Geography, and other journals. Karina has delivered invited plenary talks at the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Tulane University, University of Tübingen, and University of Naples Federico II. She has served as expert evaluator and project monitor, for example for  European Commission. Currently she is a member of the Social, Political and Communication Sciences Panel at the Research Foundation Flanders and of the editorial board of Nordic Journal of Migration Research.