LiTra: The project team

Details of the project team

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The current team

A group of people stand posing for the camera under cherry trees that are in full pink blossom
The project team. Photo by Kai-Wilhelm Nessler.

The Stavanger team in 2025:

  • Merja Stenroos (project leader)
  • Kjetil V. Thengs (corpus compilation, study of ME documents)
  • Geir Bergstrøm (corpus maintenance and development, study of ME documents)
  • Roderick Dale (administrator, Old Norse culture and archaeology)
  • Oliver Traxel (Old English and lexicology)
  • Klaus Johan Myrvoll (Old Norse)
  • Kai-Wilhelm Nessler (corpus development)
  • Fatima Ghasemi, Fredrick Niklas Hansen, Kenneth Solberg-Harestad, Synne Tungland, Chloe Urso (research assistants)

Advisory team:

  • Kathryn A. Lowe, University of Glasgow (Old English and post-Conquest documents)
  • Carole Hough, University of Glasgow (onomastics)
  • Keith Lilley, Queen’s University, Belfast (historical geography)
  • Martti Mäkinen, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki (corpus linguistics)