The price of privilege: Streams of Resources and a Long, Paradoxical History of Academic Precarity Hampus Östh Gustafsson (UPPSALA University) Precarity has become part of the standard vocabulary o…

Despite good intentions, the recent focus on ‘Early Career Researchers’ in research policies is counterproductive. The concept poisons expectation...

At the height of nineteenth-century idealism, philosophy of history had a firm place among the Swedish humanities, but in the following century, disciplinary alliances of history and philosophy see...

Based on a prosopographic survey of 157 docents in the humanities, this article explores the dynamics of a broader societal epistemic ecosystem in Sweden from 1876 to 1927. Examining the collective...

Historiska perspektiv på en förväntad samhällsomvandling Carl-Filip Smedberg, Jonas Andersson, Klara Müller & Hampus Östh Gustafsson (red.) I 1900-talets slutskede började man i Sverige, liksom på an...

The acceleration of academic time has been a persistent theme in debates on higher education, fuelled by politicians as well as students. In this article, we analyse and discuss acceleration and st...

In the late nineteenth and for much of the twentieth century, an academic career in Sweden was highly dependent on what grade a scholar’s doctoral dissertation was awarded. Unless receiving a so-calle...

PhD student in the history of ideas, Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University

I Sigfrid Siwertz bildningsroman Jonas och draken(1928) får vi följa Jonas von Dankvarts studieår i det tidiga 1900-talets akademiska Uppsala. En av hans studiekamrater bär namnet Vergelin. När huvudk...

R. S. Crane and the Invention of the Humanities: The Formation of Historical Narratives of Knowledge in the Mid-Twentieth Century was published in History of Intellectual Culture 3/2024 on page 275.

Regeringens kommande forskningsproposition måste stärka de långsiktiga villkoren för kvalitet och institutionell autonomi.

Wherever there is education, there is power and resistance. The Conference invites papers that deal with these two fundamental features of social and educational processes

Published in Global Intellectual History (Ahead of Print, 2023)