Staff
Subject coordinator: Martin Wottle
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
F932
![Helena Bergman](/download/18.571df4991900c61d76b12fcb/1718544533014/20240609_Helena.jpg)
Associate professor in History, specializing in gender history. Director of PhD level studies/ Historical studies.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F918
Gender equality, liberal feminism, garden history, and planning of towns and social movements
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F835
![Christopher Collstedt](/download/18.b69c92618c3de645534417f/1702366807970/E6ACFB81-EBC5-47E6-88D1-007BFF90F53D.jpeg)
Christopher Collstedt
Professor
![Martin Englund](/download/18.3ae90d9d187eac655ec3ebc3/1684146672648/Martin%20Englund%20doktorand.png)
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
![Yulia Gradskova](/download/18.3c8e17e51898e1d0c178f0ff/1692350628202/7YuliaGradskova02.jpg)
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
MA722
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
F932
![Johannes Heuman](/download/18.6495af0218af9612ddf386cf/1697229837537/Heuman.jpg)
![Josefin Hägglund](/download/18.7dea5d1518d2a59527117c13/1706263142338/josefinportratt-5242.jpg)
Josefin Hägglund
Doctoral Student
![Martin Johansson](/download/18.6495af0218af9612ddf35bed/1697193008124/martinjohansson_foto_annahartvig_8.jpg)
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
F829
Karin Jonsson
PhD
Senior Lecturer
![Tatiana Kasperski](/download/18.11854e9a18d82a65d9be7ccb/1708956227389/WhatsApp%20Image%202024-02-26%20at%2014.42.44.jpeg)
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
![Johannes Knapen](/download/18.2475835d18ced8cf2d84f7b/1704885054714/Johannes%20Knapen.jpg)
Johannes Knapen
PhD
Senior Lecturer
Eva-Marie Letzter
PhD
Senior Lecturer
Susan Lindholm
PhD
Researcher
![Julia Malitska](/download/18.518265ac1898bf0dadb7fb55/1692098115701/9RdH5Ue43Gg.jpg)
![Torbjörn Nilsson](/download/18.423256d9187eaf3631a21356/1683716622411/torbjo%3Frn_nilsson01.jpg)
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
F931
![Lovisa Olsson](/download/18.341c9f8918b380bb88127047/1698146341418/lovisa_olsson_l_foto_annhartvig_1.jpg)
Lovisa Olsson
Officer
![Fredrik Petersson](/download/18.35d14ce018bf5ec902825353/1701259301611/Petersson_bild.jpeg)
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
Postdoctoral research
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F915
![Christopher Pihl](/download/18.3b46ec8618d2a9658ef5690/1705922045824/IMG_20230929_133445066~2.jpg)
I am a historian of the Russian Empire, with a particular focus on the Caucasus and Ukraine.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
MA711
My research focuses on Swedish/Nordic history and politics; moreover, I study history of antifascism in Italy.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
Michal Salamonik
PhD
Senior Lecturer
![Sylwia Szymanska-Smolkin](/download/18.561020fb18529b3aa4ab9797/1675258587002/SSS%20Uppsala%20Pic%20(1).jpeg)
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
![Kaisa Vallas](/download/18.5e24d69918ec6705cb33af94/1713352274308/laulupidu-%20portrett%203.jpg)
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
![Yuliya Yurchuk](/download/18.ec9219e18d8279f46f1ccca/1707831485056/5.jpg)
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
Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor for internationalization
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F923
I am studying processes of democratization in Sweden during "the long 20th century
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F835