Person
Professor
- History
- Department of History
Contact information
E-mail johan.ostlinghist.luse
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
I am Professor of History, Director of the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) and Wallenberg Academy Fellow. My research is mainly devoted to the history of knowledge and universities, but I have a general interest in the intellectual, political and cultural history of modern and contemporary Europe.
Since the mid-2010s, I have in close co-operation with my colleagues created a research environment in Lund. We have published The History of Knowledge (CUP) and a trilogy on the history of knowledge. I am an editor of the yearbook History of Intellectual Culture and the book series "Knowledge Societies in History".
My first book dealt with Swedish experiences of Nazism in the wake of Second World War, and my second monograph was Humboldt and the Modern German University.
As a Wallenberg Academy Fellow, I have investigated how knowledge circulated in postwar societies. In 2024–2026 I am leading a comparative project on the Europeanisation of the universities in late 20th century.
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Lund University
Director, Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK), 2020–
Chairperson of the Electoral College, 2024–
Member of the Research Board, Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, 2021–
Member of the board of the Centre for European Studies, 2021–
Member of the Electoral College, representing the teaching staff, 2018–
Deputy chairperson of the Electoral College, 2021–2024
Member of the board, Department of History, 2018–2023
Special by the Vice-Chancellor to highlight questions concerning academic freedom, 2022
Member of the Recruitment Committee for vice-chancellor and deputy vice-chancellor, Lund University, 2019–2020
Acting Head of Department, Department of History, 2016–2019
Elected member of the Royal Society of Letters at Lund, 2023
Elected member of Vetenskapssocieteten, Lund, 2016
Other academic assignments and duties
One of the founding editors-in-chief of History of Intellectual Culture: International Yearbook of Knowledge and Society (published by De Gruyter), 2021–
Member of the review panel for the Kerstin Hesselgren and Olof Palme visiting professorships, Swedish Research Council, 2021–2023
Member of the review panel for research into the Holocaust, victims of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, 2022–2023
Member of the review panel of historical scholarship, Research Council of Norway, 2021–
Member of the advisory board of the research programme ”Democracy and Higher Education”, Uppsala University, 2022–
Member of advisory board of the book series ”Studies in the History of Knowledge”, Amsterdam University Press, 2020–
Member of editorial review board of the book series ”Global Epistemics”, Rowman & Littlefield International, 2019–
Associate member, Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (gloknos), CRASSH, University of Cambridge, 2018–
Outreach, public engagement etc.
Chair of the Clio Prize Committee, 2013–2017
Member of the editorial board of the journal Respons, 2012–
Professor
- History
- Department of History
Contact information
E-mail johan.ostlinghist.luse
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30