Kristoffer Damgaard

Kristoffer Damgaard is Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen. He is member of Copenhagen University’s research-oriented focus group Materiality in Islam Research Initiative (MIRI).

Research interests: cultural and socio-economic processes associated with the rise and expansion of Islamic society; linkage of, and mobility between, the eastern Mediterranean, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean littorals – in particular from a mercantile perspective. These littorals are viewed as coherent regions of interaction and analysed as flexible and dynamic ‘cultural continents’ bound as much to the bodies of water they delimit, as to the landmasses they connect.