Karina Horsti is University Lecturer in Cultural Policy at the Deparment of Social Sciences and Philosophy (2013-) and Docent in Communication Studies, University of Helsinki (2010-). Her research focuses on migration, media, memory politics and culture. She also collaborates with artists and museums, assisting with exhibitions and artwork related to migration and writing essays in catalogues. She is the author of Survival and Witness at Europe’s Border: The Afterlives of a Disaster (Cornell University Press, 2023). Previously, she has been Visiting Professor in Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota (2023-2025), Visiting Scholar at the Department of Media, Culture & Communication, New York University (2009, 2011-2012, 2019), at the Media and Communication Studies, Freie University Berlin (2022), Research Unit in Public Cultures, Melbourne University (2017), at the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science (2016).