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Inger Marie Okkenhaug

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  • E-mailinger.okkenhaug@uib.no
  • Visitor Address
    Haakon Sheteligs plass 11
    Fastings Minde
    5007 Bergen
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7800
    5020 Bergen
Academic article
  • Show author(s) (2023). “A Danish corner in the heart of Lebanon”. Protestant missions, humanitarianism, and Armenian orphans, ca. 1920-1960. Les Mélanges de l'École française de Rome - Italie et Méditerranée modernes et contemporaines (MEFRIM). 251-266.
  • Show author(s) (2023). The role of protestant missionaries during the Great Arab Revolt in Jerusalem and South Palestine (1936-1939) – towards humanity? British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 20 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Transnasjonale Haugenettverk, emigrasjon og norskamerikansk misjon i Fancheng, Kina, 1890-1910. DIN - Tidsskrift for religion og kultur. 9-30.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Religion, Relief, and Humanitarian Work among Armenian Women Refugees in Mandatory Syria, 1927–1934”. Scandinavian Journal of History. 432-454.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Introduction: Nordic missions, gender and humanitarian practices: from evangelization to development. Scandinavian Journal of History. 285-297.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Scandinavian Missionaries, Gender and Armenian refugees during World War 1 : Crisis and Reshaping of Vocation. Social Sciences and Missions. 63-93.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Gender and Missions in the Middle East. Social Sciences and Missions. 1-6.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Kvinner, kall og krig. Bodil Biørn og armenerne. Fortid og Nutid. 277-292.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Herren har givet mig et rigt virkefelt - Kall, religion og arbeid blant armenere i det osmanske riket. Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). 39-60.
  • Show author(s) (2006). “Signe Ekblad and the Swedish School in Jerusalem, 1922-1948”. Svensk Missionstidsskrift. 147-162.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Gender and Nordic missions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Scandinavian Journal of History. 73-82.
  • Show author(s) (2003). “Gender and Nordic Missions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries” (special edition "gender and mission"). Scandinavian Journal of History. 73-82.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Gender and Nordic Missions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Scandinavian Journal of History. 73-82.
  • Show author(s) (2002). From Neutrality to Critic of British Mandate Policy: Anglican Women Teachers and the Arab-Jewish Conflict in Palestine, 1936-48. Chronos. 113-143.
  • Show author(s) (2002). "‘She Loves Books & Ideas, & Strides along in Low Shoes Like an Englishwoman’: British models and graduates from the Anglican girls’ secondary schools in Palestine, 1918-48". Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. 461-479.
  • Show author(s) (1998). Maternal Imperialism or Colonialism as a "Multi-faceted experience". Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). 51-61.
Lecture
  • Show author(s) (2023). Palestina-Israel-konflikten i et historisk perspektiv fra ca. 1870 til 2023.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Armenske flyktningar og norsk bistand under og etter første verdskrig.
  • Show author(s) (2019). «Kvinnelige misjonsarbeidere, Bodil Biørn og armenerne, 1922-1925».
  • Show author(s) (2017). En norsk filantrop. Bodil Biørn og armenerne, 1905-1934.
  • Show author(s) (2016). En norsk filantrop. Bodil Biørn og armenerne, 1905-1934.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Scandinavian witnesses and the Armenian Genocide.
Popular scientific lecture
  • Show author(s) (2018). Arkivert. Frå bedehus til Afrika.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Misjon, organisasjon og kvinners arbeid for kvinner i et historisk perspektiv.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Jeg har vært med på å se alt det frykteligste som kan tenkes.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Scandinavian Missionaries, Gender, and Armenian Refugees During World War 1.
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Kvinner, krig og bistand: Bodil Biørn og armenerne, 1907-1934".
  • Show author(s) (2006). Midtøstens religion og kultur i europeiske framstillinger.
Academic lecture
  • Show author(s) (2022). Kontaktsoner og kulturmeglere i norsk og internasjonal kontekst.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Transnational Ties and National Health Development: Deaconesses, Sami Laestadians and Local Welfare in Northern Norway, ca. 1920-1935.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Orphans, Refugees and Scandinavian Relief in the Middle East, 1920-1935, .
  • Show author(s) (2019). “A “significant Swedish outpost”. The Swedish School and Arab Christians in Jerusalem, 1920-1930”.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Vocation and Relief in a post World War One Context: Scandinavian Missionaries and Armenian Refugees, 1920-1940.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Swedish Imagines of Jerusalem: Local Photography and Social History in Palestine, 1926-1939.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Scandinavian Women´s Mission Worker´s archives: The Birds’ Nest Orphanage in Lebanon.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Motkultur, kall og humanitære handlingsrom: Kvinnelige misjonsarbeidere i Tysfjord og Armenia.
  • Show author(s) (2018). “To hear the stars sing: Norwegian Migration, Religion and Emotions, 1843-1891”.
  • Show author(s) (2018). “Protestant Missionaries, Armenian Refugees and Local Relief: Gendered Humanitarianism in Aleppo, 1920-1939”, .
  • Show author(s) (2018). “A humble messenger of a great and powerful Lord. Swedish Mission, Practical Deeds and Education in Jerusalem, 1922-1948”.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Missionaries ´Role in the Humanitarian Action During the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936. With Karene Sanchez, Leiden University.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Bodil Biørn – en norsk filantrop blant armenerne, 1905-1934.
  • Show author(s) (2018). "Transnational Relief and Local Practices: The Swedish School in Jerusalem".
  • Show author(s) (2018). "Scandinavian Involvements, War and a Gendered Refugee Crisis, Turkey and the Levant, 1915-1930".
  • Show author(s) (2017). Trans-Atlantic Migration, Gender and Religion: The Experiences of Three Norwegian Siblings, 1883-1891.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Gender, religion and Hauge-networks in the process of migration.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Gender and humanitarian practices in The Interwar Period: Scandinavian Relief and Armenian Refugees in Lebanon and Syria, 1920-1940.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Gender and humanitarian practices after World War I: Female Scandinavian Relief workers and Armenian Women Refugees in Lebanon and Syria.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Refugees, Relief and the Restoration of a Nation: Norwegian mission in the Armenian Republic, 1922-1925.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Misjon som familieforetagende. Transnasjonale liv, luthersk misjon og kulturmøter i Fancheng, 1891 – 1907.
  • Show author(s) (2016). "‘Engaging Europe in the Middle East: Scandinavian missionaries and humanitarianism among Armenians, 1905-1930".
  • Show author(s) (2015). “From Norway to China via the United States: Women, Religion and Transmigration, ca. 1880-1910”.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Transnasjonale nettverk, emigrasjon og norskamerikansk misjon i Kina, 1890-1910.
  • Show author(s) (2015). To hear the stars sing Norwegian migration, religion and emotions - 1843-1891.
  • Show author(s) (2015). From Norway to China via the United States: women, religion and transmigration, ca. 1880-1910.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Armenian Women Refugees during and after World War I: Biographies of Survival, Strategies and Relocation”.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Women, religion and transatlantic networks: From Norway to China via USA.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Mission sources, texts, photographs and the history of post-genocide Armenians.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Misjon som velferd: Norsk jordmor og sykepleier i Anatolia, 1905-1915.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Det armenske folkemordet sett med norske øyne.
  • Show author(s) (2013). «The China Mission of the LCA: Kulturell ekspansjon, kjønn og utviklingen av et transnasjonalt nettverk, 1890-1934».
  • Show author(s) (2013). Transnational mediators and local facilitators: Relief, welfare and Scandinavian mission among Armenian refugees in Mandatory Syria, 1927-1934.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Transnational Humanitarianism, Missions and Armenian Refugees, 1915-1925.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Transatlantiske institusjonsbyggere: Norske diakonisser i New York, Minneapolis og Chicago, ca 1880- 1930.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Religion, kjønn og transnasjonale nettverk: Fra Norge via USA til Kina.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Inger Marie Okkenhaug: Kvinner, bistand og misjon blant armenske flyktninger i Syria, ca. 1925-1935.
  • Show author(s) (2012). “Welfare, religion and transnational careers: Translations and adaptions in the USA and Middle East, 1883– 1913”.
  • Show author(s) (2012). “War, Refugees and Relief. Bodil Bjørn and her work with Ottoman government's assault on the Armenian populations.”.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Relief, welfare and Scandinavian missionaries in Mandatory Syria and Palestinetransnational mediators and local facilitators.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Relief, welfare and Scandinavian missionaries in Mandatory Syria and Palestine.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Humanitært arbeid, nasjonsbygging og kulturmøter i Den armenske republikk på 1920-tallet.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Fra Norge til USA og Midtøsten: En komparativ studie av diakonisser, humanitært arbeid og kunnskapsoverføring, 1885-1940.
  • Show author(s) (2012). "Transnational Humanitarianism, Missions and Armenian Refugees: 1915-1925".
  • Show author(s) (2012). "Gender, religion and welfare: Norwegian Deaconesses and labor migration between Norway and urban areas in North America; New York, Chicago and Minneapolis, ca. 1885-1925".
  • Show author(s) (2011). Scandinavian Women Missionaries, Transnational Humanitarianism and Armenian Refugees.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Scandinavian Missionaries, Gender and Armenian Refugees during World War I.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Norwegian deaconesses, relief and welfare: Translations and adaptions in the USA and Middle East, ca 1885-1915.
  • Show author(s) (2011). "The Restoration of a Nation: Orphans, Refugees and Relief in the Armenian Republic, 1922- 1925.".
  • Show author(s) (2010). "Third Annual Frederick Gaylord Grose lecture" : Scandinavian Missionaries, Gender and Armenian Refugees during World War I. Crisis and Reshaping of Vocation.
  • Show author(s) (2008). ” et for Guds sak herlig og viktig arbeide”: Misjon, kall og transnasjonale arbeidsrelasjoner i det østlige Tyrkia, 1905-1914.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Total war, large-scale dispossession and deportation. Mission and relief-work among Armenians, 1915-1924.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Total War, Large-Scale Dispossession and Deportation in the Middle East: Relief Work among Armenians, 1915-1930.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Kvinner, krig og bistand. Bodil Biørn (1871-1960),.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Setting the table at the Swedish school in Jerusalem. Food as a critic of the British Mandate’s welfare provisions in Palestine.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Arranging and charing panel: "Colonial encounters, Nordic Protestant Mission and non-state civilizing agents".
  • Show author(s) (2007). Arbeid, lykke og kjærlighet. Om konstruksjon av nordiske kvinner i Midtøsten.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Photography, mission and transnational history.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Photography and mission: An Armenian- Norwegian history.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Fotografiet i misjonshistorien: Bodil Biørn og armenerne.
  • Show author(s) (2006). "Mission, history and biography".
  • Show author(s) (2006). "Gender and the social dimension of mission in the Middle East ca. 1880-1950".
  • Show author(s) (2005). Signe Ekblad and the Swedish School in Jerusalem, 1922-1948.
  • Show author(s) (2005). NMS arkiv som utgangspunkt for forskning.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Cultural forces during the Mandate Period: Signe Ekblad and the Swedish School in Jerusalem, 1922-1948,.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Contested Patriarchies: Scandinavian Lutheran Missionaries, Gender and Religion in the Middle East, 1900-1950.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Colonialism and Nordic Women’s History: postcolonial challenges.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Bodil Biørn: A Lifetime Dedicated to the Armenian People.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Palestina; 1918-1948.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Forslag til tema til hovedsesjon på Det nordiske kvinnehistorikermøtet i Åbo, 2005.
  • Show author(s) (2003). "Kvinner og krig: eksempler fra midtøstenshistorie.
  • Show author(s) (2002). bokomtale: Husmorhistorier av Hilde Danielsen.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Kolonialisme og utdanning av lokale eliter; Anglikansk misjon som identitetskonstruerende faktor i Uganda og Palestina, 1920-48.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Anglican mission schools, Arab and Jewish students and nationalism in Palestine during the 1930s.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Anglican Mission and Women's Education in Palestine 1918-48.
  • Show author(s) (1997). "The raising of the standards of female education in the Holy Land". The Jerusalem and East Mission and Women's Education in Palestine 1888-1917.
  • Show author(s) (1996). "And the Gem of all the future hope is the education of girls." Anglikansk misjon og kvinneutdanning i Palestina 1888-1948.
Book review
  • Show author(s) (2013). Bokmelding: Klas-Göran Karlsson De som är oskyldiga idag kan bli skyldige imorgon. Det armeniska folkmordet och dess efterbörd Atlantis, 2012, 340 sider. Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). 668-672.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Show author(s) (2022). Transnasjonale perspektiv på sekularitet og religion. Norske aktører, ideer, forhandlinger og praksis 1846–1986. Universitetsforlaget.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Christian Missions and Humanitarianism in the Middle East, 1850-1970: Ideologies, Rhetoric, and Practices. Brill Academic Publishers.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Transnational and Historical Perspectives on Global Health, Welfare and Humanitarianism. Portal forlag.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Protestant Missions and Local Encounters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Unto the Ends of the World. Brill Academic Publishers.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Interpreting Welfare and Relief in the Middle East. Brill Academic Publishers.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Stones and Stories. Berg Publishers.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Gender, Religion and change in the Middle East. Berg Publishers.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Gender, Religion and Change. Two Hundred Years of History. Berg Publishers.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Gender, Religion and Change in the Middle East: Two Hundred Years of History. Berg Publishers.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Women and Religion in the Middle East and the Mediterrranean. Unipub forlag.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Women and Religion in the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Universitetsforlaget.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Gender, Race and Religion: Nordic Missions, 1860-1940. Studia Missionalia Svecana.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Gender, Race and Religion: Nordic Missions 1860-1940. Studia Missionalia Svecana XCI.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Erobring og overskridelse - De nye kvinnene inntar verden 1870-1940. Unipub forlag.
Academic monograph
  • Show author(s) (2016). En norsk filantrop. Bodil Biørn og armenerne, 1905-1934.
  • Show author(s) (2002). The Quality of Heroic Living, of High Endeavour and Adventure Anglican Mission, Women and Education in Palestine, 1888-1948.
Non-fiction book
  • Show author(s) (2020). Folkmord, flyktingar och fortlevnad : tre skandinaviska kvinnors arbete för armeniska kvinnor och barn. Artos & Norma bokförlag.
Popular scientific article
  • Show author(s) (2013). Bodil Biørn og armenerne, 1905-1934. Historie. Populærhistorisk magasin. 10-16.
  • Show author(s) (1997). Oppdagelsesreisende i skjørt: To britiske kvinner i imperiets grenseland. Historie. 4-18.
  • Show author(s) (1997). Oppdagelsesreisende i skjørt. To britiske kvinner i imperiets grenseland. Historie. 4-17.
  • Show author(s) (1997). Mary Kingsley and Freya Stark; kvinnelige reisende i det britiske imperiets tjeneste. Historie, populærhistorisk magasin.
Feature article
  • Show author(s) (2010). Transaltantiske livshistorier : Elizabeth Fedde. Historikeren.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Palestina-krigen 1948 sett fra to sider : 1948-krigen i arabisk og israelsk historieforståelse. Bergens Tidende. 21.
  • Show author(s) (1997). Terje Ellingsen: Reformasjonen i Norge: Da kirken valgte kurs. Historie. 90-91.
  • Show author(s) (1997). Olav Skevik: Folk og fylker i fjerne tider. Inntrøndelags historie før 1600. Historie.
  • Show author(s) (1997). Bodil Stenseth: Ekteseng og bordell. Om 1790-årenes seksualopplysning. Historie. 91-92.
Doctoral dissertation
  • Show author(s) (1999). "The quality of heroic living, of high endeavour and adventure" : Anglican mission, women and education in Palestine, 1888-1948.
Interview
  • Show author(s) (2017). Frigjort av kallet.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Kvinnefrigjøring på misjonsmarkene.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Det armenske folkemordet og norsk bistand.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Til Jordens Ender.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Nytt lys på misjonshistorien.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Misjonen som ikkje ville vere misjon.
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Stakkars små i hedningland".
  • Show author(s) (2003). Våre formødre: misjonskvinnene.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Nytt syn på Midtøstens kvinner.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Den nye kvinnen-en samfunnstrussel?
  • Show author(s) (2003). Den nye kvinnen.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Show author(s) (2023). Transitions, Transformations and Contact Zones: Sibling Migration to Minnesota, 1881–1891.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Bodil Biørn. 10 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2022). «… et socialt, kulturelt og først og fremst et kristelig arbeide.» Kvinnelige misjonsarbeidere, transnasjonale nettverk og lokal forankring, ca. 1900–1935. 26 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Thora Wedel Jarlsberg (1863–1930): Tro og transnasjonale gjerninger. 26 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Innledning. 20 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Swedish Imagines of Jerusalem: Local Photography and Social History in Palestine, 1926–1939. 31 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Scandinavian Missionaries in Palestine: The Swedish Jerusalem Society, Medical Mission and Education in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, 1900-1948. 21 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2021). A “Significant Swedish Outpost”: The Swedish School and Arab Christians in Jerusalem, 1920–1930. 30 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Spiritual Reformation and Engagement with the World: Mission and Humanitarianism in the Ottoman Empire, 1905-1914. 20 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Protestant Missionaries, Armenian Refugees and Local Relief: Gendered Humanitarianism in Aleppo, 1920–1939. 24 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Introduction. 17 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Care and connections. Orphans, refugees and Norwegian relief in the Soviet Armenian Republic, 1922–25. 15 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Kina for Kristus. Misjon og kristendom i Kina. 16 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Kinamisjon og amerikareiser: transnasjonale liv og nettverk 1890–1950. 17 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Norwegian nurses, relief and welfare in the United States and Middle East, ca. 1880-1915. 28 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Humanitært arbeid, nasjonsbygging og kulturmøter i Den armenske republikk, 1922–1925. 19 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Refugees, Relief and the Restoration of a Nation: Norwegian mission in the Armenian Republic, 1922-1925. 26 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Chapter 1: Introduction. 22 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2008). aa hvor her trænges til Hjælp! Bodil Biørn og armenerne, 1905-1934. 1 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Women on a Mission! Scandinavian Welfare and the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1905-1917. 25 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Midtøstens religion og kultur i europeiske framstillinger. 14 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Encountering Foreign Worlds: Mission, Welfare and Relief in an Armenian Context. 19 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Att Avresa till Jerusalem som Lärarinna. Signe Ekblad, jorsalsfarer, lærer og misjonær. 14 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Introduction: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East and Meditteranean. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2003). two duties so far apart: Den nye Kvinnen og overgangskvinner under den britiske mandatperioden i Palestina. 14 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Introduction: Gender and Nordic Missions. 13 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Innledning. 15 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2003). "Women in Christian Mission: Protestant Encounters from the 19th and 20th century".
  • Show author(s) (2003). "Education, Culture and Civilisation: Anglican Missionary Women in Palestine". 30 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2002). "Henrik Ibsen; Khedivens gjest i Egypt". 15 pages.
  • Show author(s) (1999). Civilisation, Culture and Education: British Women missionaries in the Holy Land 1880-1940.
Encyclopedia article
  • Show author(s) (2007). "Female missionaries in the modern and contemporary worlds". 1 pages. In:
    • Show author(s) (2007). Encyclopaedia of Women in World History.
Museum exhibition
  • Show author(s) (2008). Til jordens ender.Et utstillingsprosjekt i samarbeid mellom Bergen Museum og Bymuseet i Bergen.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Kom over og hjelp oss.
Academic literature review
  • Show author(s) (2015). Christian Missions in the Middle East and the Ottoman Balkans: Education, Reform, and Failed Conversion, 1819-1967. International Journal of Middle East Studies. 593-604.
Introduction
  • Show author(s) (2013). Introduction. 9-18.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Introduction to Interpreting Welfare and Relief in the Middle East. 1-11.
Popular scientific chapter/article
  • Show author(s) (2021). Bodil Biørn. Norsk misjon og bistand blant armenerne. 141-156.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Barn, kvinner og velferd i Jerusalem / Children, women and welfare in Jerusalem. 87-101.
Article in business/trade/industry journal
  • Show author(s) (2018). Herrenes historie, igjen? Historikeren. 6-10.

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