Innovative and up-to-date, that is how Katja Franko, the Faculty of Social Sciences’ new honorary doctor, is described.
Katja Franko is a professor of criminology at the University of Oslo. Her works concern issues around migration, border control, surveillance and international policing in a globalized world. The research is both empirically curious and theoretically outstanding. In her research, she is pioneering and is becoming increasingly relevant in the light of political changes in the Nordic region.
Franko works at the University of Oslo and has published several influential books as well as articles in the leading criminological scientific journals. Katja Franko is not afraid to tackle complex subjects, which contributes to a deeper understanding of criminological issues. Her texts have influenced criminological research at Stockholm University, and she has had an impact on the entire subject of criminology. Her commitment to exploring and questioning contemporary criminological subject areas is also an inspiration for the next generation of researchers.
Professor Katja Franko’s research is innovative and constantly relevant, which we at the department find inspiring both for today’s academics and future researchers in criminology.
– She is rooted in a critical criminological approach and builds on a tradition of collaboration between Oslo and Stockholm University, says Anita Heber, professor at the Department of Criminology.
Katja Franko. Photo: Maud Hol
One honorary doctorate is an expression of the university’s appreciation of outstanding efforts within one of the university’s fields of activity. The appointed honorary doctor must be connected to Stockholm University or have contributed to the university’s activities in some respect.
The Vice-Chancellor decides on honorary doctorates for each area. The faculties are actively involved in the nomination and preparation process. Those entitled to nominate honorary doctors are those who belong to the university’s faculty. A person who does not belong to the teachers’ college but has a proposal for an honorary doctorate can ask a person within the college to nominate, e.g. the prefect.
Department of Criminology nominated Katja Franko, who is now one of Stockholm University’s new honorary doctors.
Selection of articles written by Professor Katja Franko:
(2022) Damsa, Dorina & Franko, Katja. ‘Without Papers I Can’t Do Anything’: The Neglected Role of Citizenship Status and ‘Illegality.’ IN: Intersectional Analysis. Sociology Vol. 57(1).
(2022) Franko, Katja & Rodriguez Goyes, David. Drug Violence, War-Crime Distinction, and Hierarchies of Victimhood I: Social and Legal Studies. 32(1), pp. 75–95.
(2022) Franko, Katja. ‘See no evil’: towards an analytics of Europe’s legal borderlands. IN: European Law Open. 1(1), pp. 131–134.
(2021) Franko, Katja. Lives that Matter: Criminology and Global Security Inequality. IN: International Criminology.
(2021) Franko, Katja. The two-sided spectacle at the border: Frontex, NGOs and the theaters of sovereignty. IN: Theoretical Criminology.
(2021) Franko, Katja & Rodriguez Goyes, David. Profiting From Pablo: Victimhood and Commercialism in A Global Society. IN: British Journal of Criminologyy vol. 62(3), pp. 533–550.
(2021) Haddeland, H. & Franko, Katja. Between legality and legitimacy: The courtroom as a site of resistance in the criminalization of migration. IN: Punishment & Society.
(2018) Bosworth, Mary; Franko, Katja & Pickering, Sharon. Punishment, globalization and migration control: ‘Get them the hell out of here’. IN: Punishment & Society.
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