Tor E. Fagerland

Tor Einar Fagerland is Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Fagerland was the initiator and leader of the NTNU interdisciplinary study programmes in Cultural Heritage Management (2003-2013) and was head of NTNU's Department of Historical Studies (2013-2018). He received his Ph.D. in Medieval History at NTNU in 2006.

FEATURED WORK & CORE COMPETENCIES

Curatorial services and project management for memorial installations at sites of extreme violence and traumatic history, including:

The 22 July Centre, Oslo, Norway 

The historic exhibition in Hegnhuset,  Utøya, Norway

Curating exhibitions documenting traumatic history, including:

The exhibition "Hjemme. Borte. Holocaust in Trondheim 1940-45" (2018) at the Jewish Museum, Trondheim, Norway

Scholarship on the practice of memorialization

Tor Fagerland combines his training as a historian with theories and methods and from the interdisciplinary fields of Memory Studies and Cultural Heritage Studies.  His research focuses on the commemoration of the July 22, 2011, terror attacks and the cultural memory of World War II. Since 2012, he has led the project “July 22 and the Negotiation of Memory,” where he combines research with hands-on memorial work. 

Since 2013, Fagerland has served as Special Advisor for the Norwegian Labour Youth League (AUF) and the National Support Group for July 22. He is an advisor for the Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation (KMD) and Statsbygg on the National July 22 Memorials and a board member of NIKU (Norsk institutt for kulturminneforskning).

Together with the architect Atle Aas, Fagerland was the chief curator and project manager for the 22 July Centre in Oslo, which opened in 2015. In 2016, Fagerland and Aas created the historic exhibition in Hegnhuset – a memorial and learning centre on the island of Utøya, Norway.

In 2018, Fagerland, Aas, and Jon Reitan created the exhibition "Hjemme. Borte. Holocaust in Trondheim 1940-45" at the Jewish Museum in Trondheim.

Fagerland has taught and supervised at all levels in History, Cultural Memory, and Heritage Management at NTNU. He has been a guest lecturer at the University of Massachusetts University Amherst, Indiana University, and at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City.