Margunn Bjørnholt is a professor at VID Specialized University and a researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies. Her work examines gender, violence, and power structures, with a particular focus on the state, sovereignty, and the historical traces of violence. She combines analytical rigor with a deep commitment to understanding how violence shapes lives over time, and has long studied how social and political contexts sustain violence, especially against women.