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1991 to 1993 and was chairman of the board of directors of the
University of Iceland's Institute of Anthropology from 1997 to 2001. She sat on the grants committee of the Icelandic Film Fund from 1989 to 1991 and again in 1996. She was on the editorial board of the Nordic Journal of Women's Studies (NORA) from 1991 to 1995, on the specialist committee of the Nordic Ministers Committee for Social Science Research on Environmental Affairs from 1991 to 1998, on
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the concept of the person among other theoretical perspectives. Sigríður Dúna has published a number of articles in feminist- and political anthropology as well as two biographies of forgotten but remarkable
Icelandic women. Sigríður Dúna has also published on theory and method in anthropology and taught hundreds of students during her professional career. She is now semi-retired as professor at the University of Iceland.
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Sigríður Dúna's research focused at first on French structuralism, its analysis of myths and analogy with music. Gradually her research moved into feminist studies and political anthropology. Her doctoral dissertation in 1990 analyses the history of
Icelandic women's movements from 1870 to 1990 using
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Sigríður Dúna has served on various committees and boards. From 1985 to 1992 she sat on the
Constitutional Committee of Iceland and from 1989 to 1993 on the board of directors of the Icelandic International Development Agency. She chaired the University of Iceland's public relations committee from
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and the governments of the United States, Russia, and the Baltic countries. She sat on the board of directors of the Leifur Eiríksson
Foundation from 2000 to 2005, on the University of Iceland's Centennial History Editorial Board from 2005 to 2011, on the board of directors of the Nordic Cultural
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Sigríður Dúna began teaching anthropology part-time at the
University of Iceland in 1980 and did so with breaks until 1990 when she obtained tenure. She has been Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iceland since 2000 and was Deputy Head of the Department of Social Sciences from 2000 to
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Islands from 2015 to 2016, and on Althingi's Advisory Committee on Honorary Artists' Salaries from 2015 to 2018. From 2012 to 2014, she was the patroness of
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Sigríður Dúna
Kristmundsdóttir. (1990). Doing and becoming: Women's movement and women's personhood in Iceland 1870–1990. PhD thesis. University of Rochester, New York.
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from 1997 to 1999. In 1999 she organised and chaired the conference “Women and
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Sigríður Dúna grew up in Reykjavik. Her parents are Sigríður Júlíusdóttir (1930 - 2020) and Kristmundur Jónsson (b. 1929). Sigríður Dúna is married to
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Advisory Group on Gender 1994 to 1997, on the Equal Rights Committee of Iceland's National Church from 1997 to 1999 and on the grants committee of The
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Svar forsætisráðherra við fyrirspurn Guðrúnar Ögmundsdóttur um ráðstefnuna Konur og lýðræði. Fylgiskjal II: Ráðstefnan Konur og lýðræði. Opið boðsbréf
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