Staff
Subject coordinator: Helena Bergman
Head of Department: Andreas Åkerlund
Administrative staff: Kaisa Vallas
Researchers, teaching staff and other employees:
My project, funded by the Östersjöstiftelsen, investigates the early stages of genocide at Auschwitz through the lens of Upper Silesian forced labour camps for Jews.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F832
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
Eva Blomberg
Professor
Professor emeritus/emerita
Gender equality, liberal feminism, garden history, and planning of towns and social movements
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F835
Dr. Pavel Brunssen is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History and a Guest Lecturer in Critical Romani Studies at Södertörn University.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F832
I am researching female wartime nurses that worked in Ottoman and Russian lands in World War I, starting with the Crimean War.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
MA714
Ellen Ceder Henriksson
Doctoral Student
I study truancy around the turn of the 20th century, its implications, why it was seen as a problem, and how it related to societal debates on youth crime and morality.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F932
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
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
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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
F925
Eva-Marie Letzter
PhD
Senior Lecturer
Susan Lindholm
PhD
Researcher
I am historian with a research focus on imperial histories of the Baltic Sea region and Eastern Europe.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
MA711
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
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
Historian of the Russian Empire and colonialism.
Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)
Pontus Rudberg
Researcher
I mainly research Swedish responses to the Holocaust and contemporary antisemitism.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F924
Michal Salamonik
PhD
Senior Lecturer
Andrei Stsiapanau
Researcher
I lead the research project "Unfolding Ignalina NPP Archives: Soviet Nuclear Infrastructure in the Baltic States" funded by ÖSTERSJÖSTIFTELSEN.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F822
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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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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
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
I am studying processes of democratization in Sweden during "the long 20th century
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F835