Victoria Pihl Sørensen

Assistant Teaching Professor Victoria Pihl Sørensen studies media, technology, and reproductive justice in the context of histories of welfare, medicine, race, and colonialism.

Drawing on cultural studies, science and technology studies, and feminist and decolonial thought, her current book project Eugenic Common Sense explores the prevalence and persistence of eugenic science in the development of the modern Scandinavian welfare state and its popular culture. Her writings appear in several academic journals including Women, Gender & Research and NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. Her most recent peer-reviewed article “Colonial Reproductive Coercion and Control in Kalaallit Nunaat: Racism in Denmark’s IUD Program” examines the history of Danish population control in Greenland. 

Pihl Sørensen completed her PhD in Performing and Media Arts and Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University and holds an MA from The City University of New York Graduate Center in Women’s & Gender Studies.