Staff
Director of studies: Helena Bergman
Chair of the steering committee: David Thurfjell
Researchers, doctoral students and other staff:

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

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
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
Professor
Professor emeritus/emerita
Gender equality, liberal feminism, garden history, and planning of towns and social movements
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F835

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


Hans Bolin
Associate Professor
Senior Lecturer

Associate professor and senior lecturer in history
Historical and Contemporary Studies

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


Specialised in secularisation, new religions, alternative spirituality, and esotericism (the latter also in relation to art/literature).
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1029

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
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
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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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
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

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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


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

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

Eva-Marie Letzter
PhD
Senior Lecturer
Susan Lindholm
PhD
Researcher

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

I am historian with a research focus on imperial histories of the Baltic Sea region and Eastern Europe.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
MA711

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

I am lecturer and researcher in religious education and ethics. My man intressed is in virtue ethics.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1002

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
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


PhD student in Ethnology
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1024

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
PhD
Senior Lecturer

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

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

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

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

Professor Archaeology. Head MARIS, Maritime Archaeological Research Institute at Södertörn University.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F817

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 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

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


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
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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
Academic Secretary
Department secretary School of Historical and Contemporary Studies
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F928

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
Doctoral student
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1018

Doctoral student in ethnology and teacher in the teacher education. My focus is on school-age educare.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1024
Martin Wottle
Associate Professor
Subject Coordinator
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

Coordinator ULF-avtal. Research fields: Higher education. Civic and religious engagement among youth in e.g. social movements.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1016
Erika Zinders
Doctoral Student

Head of the study of religion and archeology. Assistant professor in the study of religion. Researcher.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1031
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
I am studying processes of democratization in Sweden during "the long 20th century
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F835

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