Staff

Director of studies: Helena Bergman

Chair of the steering committee: Martin Wottle

Researchers, doctoral students and other staff:

Helena Bergman

Helena Bergman

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

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

Håkan Blomqvist

Håkan Blomqvist

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

My research concerns Labour history, nationalism and antisemitism.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

Daniel Bodén

Daniel Bodén

PhD

Subject Coordinator

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

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F813

Hans Bolin

Hans Bolin

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Historical and Contemporary Studies

Anders Burman

Anders Burman

Professor

Senior Lecturer

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F814

Kerstin Cassel

Kerstin Cassel

Associate Professor

Subject Coordinator

Senior Lecturer

Kerstin Cassel is Associate Professor of Archaeology at Södertörn University.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F816

Christopher Collstedt

Christopher Collstedt

Professor

Head of Department

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F914

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

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

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

Petra Garberding

Petra Garberding

Associate Professor

Programme Coordinator

Senior Lecturer

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

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

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

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

Kristin Halverson

Kristin Halverson

PhD

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

Nathalie Hinders

Nathalie Hinders

Doctoral Student

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

Roman Horbyk

Roman Horbyk

PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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

Josefin Hägglund

Josefin Hägglund

Doctoral Student

Historical and Contemporary Studies

Liza Jakobsson

Liza Jakobsson

Doctoral Student

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F827

Martin Johansson

Martin Johansson

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

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

Andrej Kotljarchuk

Associate Professor

Researcher

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

Eva-Marie Letzter

PhD

Senior Lecturer

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F904

Susan Lindholm

Susan Lindholm

PhD

Researcher

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F922

Julia Malitska

Julia Malitska

PhD

Researcher

Historical and Contemporary Studies

MA711

Carl Marklund

Carl Marklund

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

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

F1032

Staffan Nilsson

Staffan Nilsson

ThD

Deputy Head of School

Senior Lecturer

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

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1002

Torbjörn Nilsson

Torbjörn Nilsson

Professor

History and politics. Democratic breakthrough 1918-1921. Nordic perspectives. Conservatism in Northern Europe.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F802

Oscar Nygren

Oscar Nygren

Doctoral Student

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

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

Veronica Palm

Doctoral Student

PhD student in archaeology with connection to project SEASIDE.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

Nicole Pergament Crona

Nicole Pergament Crona

Doctoral Student

PhD student in Ethnology

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1024

Aleksandra Reczuch

Aleksandra Reczuch

Doctoral Student

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

F803

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

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

Paul Sherfey

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

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

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F913

Göran Ståhle

Göran Ståhle

ThD

Subject 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

F922

David Thurfjell

David Thurfjell

Professor

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1033

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

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1028

Linda Vikdahl

Linda Vikdahl

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, both in my research and teaching.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1024

Elisabeth Wollin

Elisabeth Wollin

PhD

Head of Department

Senior Lecturer

Senior lecturer in Ethnology. Research interests: cultural perspectives on place, urban/rural divide, sustainable development.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1023

Martin Wottle

Martin Wottle

Associate Professor

Subject Coordinator

Senior Lecturer

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F933

Yuliya Yurchuk

Yuliya Yurchuk

PhD

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

Maria Zackariasson

Maria Zackariasson

Professor

Research Leader

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

Francesco Zavatti

Francesco Zavatti

PhD

Researcher

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F836

Ann af Burén

Ann af Burén

PhD

Head of Department

Senior Lecturer

Assistant professor, study of religion. Researcher

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1031

Andreas Åkerlund

Andreas Åkerlund

Associate Professor

Professor

Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor for internationalization

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F923

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

David Östlund

David Östlund

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F818