Staff

Director of studies: Helena Bergman

Chair of the steering committee: David Thurfjell

Researchers, doctoral students and other staff:

Sepideh Atter Motlagh

Sepideh Atter Motlagh

Doctoral Student

I am researching young Shi'a Muslim women's perceptions and practices of Islam in relation to community in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1004

Helena Bergman

Helena Bergman

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Associate professor in History, specializing in gender history. Subject coordinator, History. Director of PhD level studies/ Historical studies & UVS/History.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F918

Fredrik Bjarkö

Fredrik Bjarkö

Doctoral Student

I am a PhD student in History of Ideas since the autumn semester of 2021. In my PhD thesis, I am examining 19th century works on the history of philosophy.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F827

Eva Blomberg

Eva Blomberg

Professor

Professor emeritus/emerita

Gender equality, liberal feminism, garden history, and planning of towns and social movements

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F835

Daniel Bodén

Daniel Bodén

PhD

Senior Lecturer

Senior Lecturer and subject coordinator for the discipline of ethnology. Research concerns the intersection between technology, culture and social change.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1013

Henrik Bohlin

Henrik Bohlin

Professor

Head of Department

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F813

Hans Bolin

Hans Bolin

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F821

Anders Burman

Anders Burman

Professor

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F814

Kerstin Cassel

Kerstin Cassel

Associate Professor

Subject Coordinator

Senior Lecturer

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F816

Izabela Dahl

Izabela Dahl

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Associate professor and senior lecturer in history

Historical and Contemporary Studies

Martin Englund

Martin Englund

Doctoral Student

My research is about collecting and analyzing life stories from the refugees who came from Poland to Sweden during the antisemitic campaign 1967-1972.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F931

Vera Ericson von Bahr

Vera Ericson von Bahr

Doctoral Student

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1004

Per Faxneld

Per Faxneld

Professor

Specialised in secularisation, new religions, alternative spirituality, and esotericism (the latter also in relation to art/literature).

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1029

Charlotta Forss

Charlotta Forss

PhD

Senior Lecturer

My research focuses on early modern worldviews, and in particular geographical and medical knowledge in relation to political and cultural identity.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F914

Florence Fröhlig

Florence Fröhlig

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Associate professor in Ethnology, Director of studies of the Baltic and East European Graduate School and officer within the Commission for the Revitalisation of Romani Chib.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

MA721

David Gunnarsson

David Gunnarsson

PhD

Director of Studies

Senior Lecturer

Also director of studies at the Pre-school teacher programmes. My research concerns migration, social participation, religion and gender.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1017

Jenny Gunnarsson Payne

Jenny Gunnarsson Payne

Professor

Professor

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1014

Jenny Gustafsson

Jenny Gustafsson

PhD

Senior Lecturer

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F924

Norbert Götz

Norbert Götz

Associate Professor

Professor

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F833

Jim Hagström

Jim Hagström

Doctoral Student

Doctoral student in the history of ideas within the Doctoral School in the History of Political Thought.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F803

Emma Hagström Molin

Emma Hagström Molin

Associate Professor

Deputy Head of School

Senior Lecturer

Historian of ideas specialised in the history of archives, libraries and historiography.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F830

Johannes Heuman

Johannes Heuman

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F913

Nathalie Hinders

Nathalie Hinders

Doctoral Student

My research concern stone age ceramic craft at wetland sites around the Baltic Sea, in particular Alvastra pile dwelling in Sweden.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F824

Liza Jakobsson

Liza Jakobsson

PhD

Senior Lecturer

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F827

Martin Johansson

Martin Johansson

PhD

Affiliated researcher

I am a lecturer in the history of ideas, and defeneded my thesis on Nordic identity and sports media in 2023.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F829

Henrik Johnsén

Henrik Johnsén

Associate Professor

Subject Coordinator

Senior Lecturer

Associate professor in History of religions. My research is focused on Christianity, especially late antique monasticism, and Syriac Orthodox Christianity in Sweden and migration.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1034

Peter Josephson

Peter Josephson

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F826

Eva-Marie Letzter

Eva-Marie Letzter

PhD

Senior Lecturer

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F904

Susan Lindholm

Susan Lindholm

PhD

Researcher

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F922

Arwid Lund

Arwid Lund

PhD

Senior Lecturer

PhD and Senior Lecturer in Information Studies (Library and Information Science). Subject Coordinator at the Södertörn University's Librarianship Program.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F902

Julia Malitska

Julia Malitska

PhD

Researcher

I am historian with a research focus on imperial histories of the Baltic Sea region and Eastern Europe.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

MA711

Douglas Mattsson

Douglas Mattsson

Doctoral Student

My main research interests deal with subcultures and religion in contemporary Muslim majority societies. I am currently resaerching the black metal music scene in Turkey.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1001

Staffan Nilsson

Staffan Nilsson

ThD

Senior Lecturer

I am lecturer and researcher in religious education and ethics. My man intressed is in virtue ethics.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1002

Malin Norrby

Malin Norrby

Doctoral Student

I'm writing my Doctoral Thesis as part of the project "Experimenting with Traditions: The Life and Afterlife of 20th Century Jewish Intellectual Culture in the Baltic Sea Region."

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1032

Oscar Nygren

Oscar Nygren

Doctoral Student

I am researching the Swedish foreign policy engagement in the Baltic region, from 1914 to 1945. Both public opinion and the Swedish government's foreign policy are studied.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F931

Lovisa Olsson

Lovisa Olsson

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F933

Nicole Pergament Crona

Nicole Pergament Crona

Doctoral Student

PhD student in Ethnology

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1024

Fredrik Petersson

Fredrik Petersson

PhD

Senior Lecturer

Lecturer in history. Associate Professor in colonial and postcolonial global history (Åbo Akademi University) Research interests Global anticolonialism

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F916

Nadezda Petrusenko

Nadezda Petrusenko

PhD

Senior Lecturer

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F915

Aleksandra Reczuch

Aleksandra Reczuch

Doctoral Student

PhD-candidate in Ethnology at the Baltic and Eastern European Graduate School. My research interests include populism, political anthropology, state policies, gender, and identity.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1026

Johanna Ringarp

Johanna Ringarp

Associate Professor

Researcher

Phil. Dr Johanna Ringarp research specialties include educational policy, teacher profession and post-Second world war German history.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

Magnus Rodell

Magnus Rodell

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

I am currently finalizing a book manuscript with the working title "The Woman by the Sea: Monuments, Media, and Cultural Memory in 1930s Sweden".

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F812

Lena Roos

Lena Roos

Professor

Jewish studies, teaching religion, Yiddish literature, interreligious encounters (esp. the Middle Ages), religion and gardening, religion and sexuality, religion and food

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1035

Leif Runefelt

Leif Runefelt

Professor

I have been a professor of the history of ideas since 2016, and have worked at Södertörn since 2012 as a teacher and researcher, mainly in the cultural history of consumption.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F825

Johan Rönnby

Johan Rönnby

Professor

Director

Professor Archaeology. Head MARIS, Maritime Archaeological Research Institute at Södertörn University.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F817

Simon Sorgenfrei

Simon Sorgenfrei

Professor

My research has mainly been devoted to Islam and Sufism, historical and recent, in Sweden and globally. Several of my projects also concerns religion and migration.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

Kekke Stadin

Kekke Stadin

Professor

Professor emeritus/emerita

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F835

Arina Stoenescu

Arina Stoenescu

Programme Coordinator

Lecturer

I am working with teaching and research regarding typography and graphic design. In my research I am particularly interested in the connections between typography and politics.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD356

Göran Ståhle

Göran Ståhle

ThD

Programme Coordinator

Senior Lecturer

I am associate professor in the Study of Religions, specialized in the Psychology of Religion, Indic religions, and Religion and health

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1027

Sylwia Szymanska-Smolkin

Sylwia Szymanska-Smolkin

Researcher

My project concerns research the Jewish couriers and their role in establishing contacts and networks between Jewish communities during the Second World War.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

David Thurfjell

David Thurfjell

Professor

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1033

Oscar Törnqvist

Oscar Törnqvist

PhD

Researcher

Using archaeological and historical sources, I investigate the pre-modern ecology of the Baltic to form better ecological baselines for managing marine resources, mainly fish.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

Carolina Uppenberg

Carolina Uppenberg

Researcher

I am an Associate professor in economic history, doing research on gender relations, labour organisation and households among landless groups during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F922

Kaisa Vallas

Kaisa Vallas

Academic Secretary

Department secretary School of Historical and Contemporary Studies

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F928

Maria Vallström

Maria Vallström

Associate Professor

Programme Coordinator

Senior Lecturer

Lecturer in ethnology and at the teachers department. Responsible for programmes for sustainable development and bachelors level.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1028

Federico Vernarelli

Federico Vernarelli

Doctoral Student

Doctoral student

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1018

Linda Vikdahl Gunséus

Linda Vikdahl Gunséus

Associate Professor

Head of School

Senior Lecturer

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F935

Julia Wester

Julia Wester

Doctoral Student

Doctoral student in ethnology and teacher in the teacher education. My focus is on school-age educare.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1024

Martin Wottle

Martin Wottle

Associate Professor

Subject Coordinator

Senior Lecturer

Historical and Contemporary Studies

Yuliya Yurchuk

Yuliya Yurchuk

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

I am historian of ideas specialising on nationalism, memory, religion, history of knowledge and history of science, with the main fokus on Ukraine, Eastern/Central Europe.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F828

Maria Zackariasson

Maria Zackariasson

Professor

Research Leader

Coordinator ULF-avtal. Research fields: Higher education. Civic and religious engagement among youth in e.g. social movements.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1016

Francesco Zavatti

Francesco Zavatti

Associate Professor

Researcher

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F836

Erika Zinders

Erika Zinders

Doctoral Student

Doctoral researcher.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1018

Ann af Burén

Ann af Burén

PhD

Head of Department

Senior Lecturer

Head of the study of religion and archeology. Assistant professor in the study of religion. Researcher.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1031

Andreas Åkerlund

Andreas Åkerlund

Professor

Head of Department

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F923

Magnus Öhlander

Magnus Öhlander

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Öhlander is currently conducting research in two areas. One concerns migration among nurses. The other is about lived experiences of exhaustion syndrome.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1021

Kjell Östberg

Kjell Östberg

Professor

Professor emeritus/emerita

I am studying processes of democratization in Sweden during "the long 20th century

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F835

Petra Österlund

Petra Österlund

Associate Professor

Subject Coordinator

Senior Lecturer

I am associate professor in Ethnology. I am coordinator for Ethnology and the European program, and a teacher in Ethnology, the European program and the Teacher Education Program.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1022

David Östlund

David Östlund

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F818

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