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Project Ideas for Doctor of Philosophy in Scandinavian

Nordic languages, literatures, and cultures in global and environmental contexts.

🏛 Introduction

UC’s PhD in Scandinavian blends philology, film, and cultural studies to interrogate Nordic imaginaries—from Viking sagas to green innovation discourses—preparing scholars for academia, diplomacy, and heritage leadership.

💡 Suggested Project Titles

Digital edition of Icelandic saga manuscripts with crowd-corrected palaeography

Corpus study of climate metaphors in Swedish parliamentary debates (1990-2025)

Comparative analysis of eco-Gothic tropes in contemporary Nordic noir novels

GIS map of Viking age silver hoards and maritime trade corridors

Podcast series on Sámi joik revitalization and Indigenous sonic sovereignty

VR reconstruction of Gustavian Stockholm for urban literary geography

Machine-learning OCR pipeline for Fraktur-printed Danish newspapers

Critical essay on Nordic exceptionalism in global happiness indices

White paper on decolonizing Viking tourism narratives in Greenland

Ethnography of queer community spaces in Oslo’s music scenes

Digital archive of Finnish silent-era films with bilingual subtitles

Policy brief on renewable-energy mythmaking in Scandinavian branding

Interactive timeline of Nordic feminist publishing houses (1880-present)

Study of Norse myth appropriation in contemporary video-game design

Crowdsourced translation platform for minority Kven and Meänkieli texts

Workshop teaching rune carving as public humanities engagement

Analysis of hygge aesthetics and consumer ethics in global lifestyle media

Symposium on Arctic climate justice narratives in Nordic literature

Citizen-science project documenting dialect shifts in rural Faroe Islands

Conference on data-driven philology and endangered Nordic manuscripts

University of California – PhD in Scandinavian

Explore Nordic pasts and futures with UC’s culturally rich PhD.

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