Staff
Subject coordinator: Martin Wottle
Head of Department: Andreas Åkerlund
Administrative staff: Kaisa Vallas
Researchers, teaching staff and other employees:
Gender equality, liberal feminism, garden history, and planning of towns and social movements
Historical and Contemporary Studies
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Christopher Collstedt
Professor
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
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I am the PI in the project "Maternity in the time of "traditional values" and femonationalism" supported by the ÖSS. I am also research coordinator at CBEES.
Culture and Education
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Ellen Henriksson
Doctoral Student
Doctoral student focusing on truancy as a phenomenon and the issues surrounding it around the turn of the 20th century.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
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Josefin Hägglund
Doctoral Student
As a project researcher at the Institute for contemporary history, I analyse British and Nordic attitudes towards the Biafran war and the subsequent crisis between 1967 and 1970.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
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Karin Jonsson
PhD
Senior Lecturer
I work on nuclear history and environmental history in Soviet and post-Soviet spaces and Eastern Europe. My current research project on Ukraine is funded by Östersjöstiftelsen.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
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Johannes Knapen
PhD
Senior Lecturer
Eva-Marie Letzter
PhD
Senior Lecturer
Susan Lindholm
PhD
Researcher
I am researching the Swedish foreign policy engagement in the Baltic region, from 1914 to 1940. Both public opinion and the Swedish government's foreign policy are studied.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
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Lovisa Olsson
Officer
Lecturer in history. Associate Professor in colonial and postcolonial global history (Åbo Akademi University) Research interests Global anticolonialism
Historical and Contemporary Studies
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Nadezda Petrusenko
PhD
Senior Lecturer
I am a historian of the Russian Empire, with a particular focus on the Caucasus and Ukraine.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
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My research focuses on Swedish/Nordic history and politics; moreover, I study history of antifascism in Italy.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
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Michal Salamonik
PhD
Senior Lecturer
Erik Sjöberg
Associate Professor
Senior Lecturer
I teach history as a Senior lecturer since 2017. My research addresses uses of history and politics of memory, with a particular focus on contemporary Greece.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
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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
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Kaisa Vallas
Academic Secretary
Department secretary School of Historical and Contemporary Studies
Historical and Contemporary Studies
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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
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Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor for internationalization
Historical and Contemporary Studies
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I am studying processes of democratization in Sweden during "the long 20th century
Historical and Contemporary Studies
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