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About Valdimar Tr. Hafstein
- Valdimar Tr.
- Hafstein (born 12 October 1972) is a professor of folkloristics and ethnology at the University of Iceland.
- He received his MA in folklore in 1999 and his Ph.D.
- in 2004 from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied with Alan Dundes and John Lindow.
- He completed the BA degree in folkloristics and ethnology at the University of Iceland in 1995 under the guidance of professor Jón Hnefill Aðalsteinsson.
- He has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Gothenburg, the Meertens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Georg-August Universität Göttingen, and a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at New York University.
- Valdimar chaired the Icelandic Commission for UNESCO from 2011-2012.
- He was president of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore from 2013-2017. He helped found the open access journal Cultural Analysis in 2000 and served as its co-editor until 2007.
- He serves on the editorial boards for Ethnologia Europaea, the Journal of American Folklore and Cultural Analysis.
- He has published widely in English and Icelandic on topics ranging from cultural heritage to copyright, from UNESCO to contemporary and medieval legends, and from traditional wrestling to CCTV surveillance.
- His work has been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese, Croatian, and Danish.
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