Staff
Director of studies: Helena Bergman
Chair of the steering committee: Martin Wottle
Researchers, doctoral students and other staff:
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
Gender equality, liberal feminism, garden history, and planning of towns and social movements
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F835
My research concerns Labour history, nationalism and antisemitism.
Historical and Contemporary Studies

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


Kerstin Cassel is Associate Professor of Archaeology at Södertörn University.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F816

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


Teaches at all levels. Research interests include secularisation, new religions, "alternative spirituality", and esotericism (the latter also in relation to art/literature).
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1029

I am associate professor in Ethnology. I am coordinator for the European programme and I am teaching in Ethnology, in the European programme and in the Teacher Education programme.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1022
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 Gustafsson
PhD
Senior Lecturer
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Kristin is a PhD candidate in the history of ideas and is interested in the history of STM in the 19th century. Kristin teaches in the history of ideas and teacher education.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
My research concern stone age pile dwellings around the Baltic Sea and in particular the ceramic craft at these sites.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F824

I am a media researcher whose work is mainly on fake news, media and war, history of media and culture, primarily in Eastern Europe
Culture and Education
PC245


Liza Jakobsson
Doctoral Student

As a PhD student in history since 2018, my work focuses on media stories of Nordic neighbours at Olympic Winter Games between 1936 and 1998.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F829
Maria Josephson
PhD
Researcher
Currectly writing a book about Swedish veterinarien Elis Sandberg, and his anti-cancer drug THX. History of medicine, history of science and history of the Swedish welfare state.
Historical and Contemporary Studies

Andrej Kotljarchuk is an associate professor in history, working as a senior researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F832
Eva-Marie Letzter
PhD
Senior Lecturer
Susan Lindholm
PhD
Researcher

Carl Marklund is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History. His research examines social planning, geopolitics and images of Sweden, e.g. in the Global South.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F831

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
F1032

I am lecturer and researcher in religious education and ethics. My man intressed is in virtue ethics.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1002
History and politics. Democratic breakthrough 1918-1921. Nordic perspectives. Conservatism in Northern Europe.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F802
I am researching the Swedish foreign policy engagement in the Baltic region, from 1917 to 1940. Both public opinion and the Swedish government's foreign policy are studied.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F829

Lovisa Olsson
Doctoral Student
I am a PhD student researching trade networks and relations around the Baltic sea in the late medieval and early modern period.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F931
Veronica Palm
Doctoral Student
PhD student in archaeology with connection to project SEASIDE.
Historical and Contemporary Studies

PhD student in Ethnology
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1024

Phil. Dr Johanna Ringarp research specialties include educational policy, teacher profession and post-Second world war German history.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F803

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


Professor Archaeology. Head MARIS, Maritime Archaeological Research Institute at Södertörn University.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F817
Paul Sherfey
Doctoral Student
Interested in activist narratives of time, aesthetics and heritage, as well as sensory experience, and how these orient activists in the futures they see as possible and desirable.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1025

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

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
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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
F922


Kaisa Vallas
Academic Secretary
Department secretary School of Historical and Contemporary Studies
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F928
Maria Vallström
Associate Professor
Programme Coordinator
Senior Lecturer

Doctoral student in ethnology and teacher in the teacher education. My focus is on school-age educare, both in my research and teaching.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1024
Senior lecturer in Ethnology. Research interests: cultural perspectives on place, urban/rural divide, sustainable development.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1023
Martin Wottle
Associate Professor
Subject Coordinator
Senior Lecturer

I am historian specialising on nationalism, memory, religion, history of knowledge and history of science and ideas, with the main fokus on Ukraine, Eastern and Central Europe.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F828

Coordinator ULF-avtal. Research fields: Higher education in Sweden and Russia. Civic and religious engagement among youth in e.g. social movements.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1016
Assistant professor, study of religion. Researcher
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1031

Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor for internationalization
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F923
I am studying processes of democratization in Sweden during "the long 20th century
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F835