Victor Lund Shammas
Position
Associate Professor
Affiliation
- victor.shammas@uib.no
- Visitor address
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Rosenbergsgaten 39
5015 Bergen - Postal address
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P.O. Box 7802NO-5020 BergenNorway
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Victor Lund Shammas
Position
Associate Professor
Affiliation
Short info
Dr. Victor Lund Shammas is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Bergen (UiB) in Norway. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Oslo, and has previously worked as Senior Research at Oslo Metropolitan University and Head of Department at the University of Agder.
Research
Selected Publications
- Shammas, V. L. (2026) "Punishment and technocracy: Penal populism, elitism, and the 'buffered ideal' in the sociology of punishment." In: Corda, A. (ed.), Research Handbook on Penal Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Shammas, V. L. (2024) "The global hinterland of social democracy: On the limitations of Norwegian welfare capitalism." Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research 9(1): 66–83.
- Shammas, V. L. (2019) "The perils of parole hearings: California lifers, performative disadvantage and the ideology of insight." Political and Legal Anthropology Review 42(1): 142–160.
- Shammas, V. L. (2018) "Burying Mont Pèlerin: Milton Friedman and neoliberal vanguardism." Constellations 25(1): 117–132.
- Shammas, V. L. (2014) "The pains of freedom: Assessing the ambiguity of Scandinavian penal exceptionalism on Norway's Prison Island." Punishment & Society 16(1): 104–123.