Examples include research on racism, colonialism, whiteness, precarious migrants, crisis, and nationalism.

Kristín has done research in Europe (Iceland, Belgium, and Italy), as well as West Africa (Niger).

She completed her matriculation examination from Flensborgarskóli in Hafnarfjörður in 1989 and a BA in Anthropology from the University of Iceland in 1992.

Her book The Woman Who Got a Spear in Her Head (Konan sem fékk spjót í höfuðið) discusses research procedure in anthropology in an accessible manner.

Kristín won the Icelandic Children's Book Prize in 1988 for Bird in a Cage (Fugl í búri).

The exhibition's emphasis on racism built on Kristín's research on the republication of the book Negroboys.

Her research has through the lens of anthropology and post-colonialism brought up critical questions about racism in Europe – particularly in Iceland and other Nordic countries.

Kristín's research has also critically examined the concept and idea of "Europe" – both the hierarchy of European nations and issues related to the exclusion of certain groups from the Continent.

[11] In addition, Kristín has posed critical questions on the meaning of being a European that come up in relation to Iceland's economic expansion and the collapse.

Kristín's articles on this topic have discussed symbolic significance of the opening and closing the McDonald's fast-food chain in Iceland;[12] the Icesave dispute as a crisis of national self-image in Iceland, and national ideas about the business Vikings.

Recently, Kristín has critically examined images of the tourism industry in relation to ideas of Nordic exceptionalism, and of purity and whiteness.