Staff
Director of studies: Elisabeth Wollin
Chair of the steering committee: David Thurfjell
Researchers, doctoral students and other staff:
Doctoral student
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F924
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.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
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Gender equality, liberal feminism, garden history, and planning of towns and social movements
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F835
Senior Lecturer and researcher in ethnology. Research concerns the intersection between technology, culture and social change.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1013
Doktorand i historia. Jag forskar om byggandets kunskapsmiljöer i 1800-talets Stockholm, från skrån och akademier till föreningar och teknisk utbildning.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F924
Director of studies of the Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS)
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F915
Specialised in XIXth-century history, his research investigates the social-religious movement guided by Andrzej Towiański (1799-1878), and political-religious ideas and movements.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F829
My research is about oral history, kinship, minorities, contemporary history and history didactics.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1001
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
F1014
I am a historian specializing in the history of East Central Europe, the history of women and gender, labor history, and the social and environmental history of violence.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F931
Also director of studies at the Pre-school teacher programmes. My research concerns migration, social participation, religion and gender.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
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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
Historian of ideas specialised in the history of archives, libraries and historiography.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
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My research concern stone age ceramic craft.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
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Doctoral Student in archaeology. My doctoral project focuses on foodways onboard late medieval and early modern naval and merchant ships in the Baltic Sea area.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F823
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
My research investigates Swedish wine journalism, with particular attention to constructions of sensory expertise and the conceptual interplay between aesthetics and gastronomy.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F935
Doctoral student
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1030
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 and spatial histories of Eastern Europe. I also conduct research on human–animal relations from a historical perspective.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
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Carl Marklund's (BA SU 2000, MA LSE 2002, PhD EUI 2008) research deals with Baltic regionalism, hybrid geopolitics and the Nordic model, including Sweden's international image.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
Douglas Mattsson
Doctoral Student
My main research interests deal with subcultures and religion in contemporary Muslim majority societies.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
I am lecturer and researcher in religious education and ethics. My man intressed is in virtue ethics.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1002
My project aims to provide a historically and biographically grounded analysis of Soviet-Jewish thinker Grigorii Pomerants’ philosophy of dialogue and religion.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1032
Doctoral student in archaeology. The doctoral project is linked to the interdisciplinary project SEASIDE at Södertörn University.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
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
Historian of the Russian Empire and colonialism.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F931
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
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
MA711
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
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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
Senior Lecturer
Associate Professor
Programme convenor
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
Associate professor and senior lecturer in Ethnology. Director of Postgrad. Studies
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1023
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: Ethnological perspectives on education and school. Societal participation, civic involvement and democracy.
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
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 Ethnolog, and a teacher in Ethnology, and the Teacher Education Program.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
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