Person
Professor
- History
- Department of History
Contact information
E-mail ulf.zanderhist.luse
Phone +46 46 222 79 61
Mobile +46 73 403 46 51
Room LUX:A315
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
Ulf Zander is Professor of History at the Department of History, Lund University.
His main interest is how history is communicated and used. He has published on debates on and uses of Swedish history from late 19th century to early 21st century as well as on monuments, film, history and identity and uses of history in United States.
Another of his research interests is the Holocaust and representations of the Nazi genocide in Scandinavia and Great Britain after 1945. He has for instance written about the post-war interest for Raoul Wallenberg in Sweden, Hungary and the US in Raoul Wallenberg. Life and legacy (2024). Zander has co-edited a number of anthologies and was the editor of Scandia, one of the leading Swedish Academic journals in history, 2003–05.
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I have in both a Scandinavian and an International context worked with questions on history culture and history and images/pictures, especially monuments and film and history.
I have presented my resaerch at a large number of conferences, both in Sweden and other parts of Europe, in United States and Australia.
Another interest is pedagogical development, including a period as guest teacher at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board awarded me the 2015-2016 Fulbright-Hildeman Fellowship in Scandinavian History, and I was during the Spring of 2016 visiting Professor at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois.
I have had expert and examination committee assignments, among them being external examiner in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. As principal or assistant supervisor I have brought several doctoral students to exam, most of them in history but also in didactics, film studies, photography and media history.
I was 2018‒19 Director for Second and Third Cycle Studies at the Department of History, Lund University.
I am since 2014 board member and since 2017 deputy chairman of Kriterium (a portal for the review and publication of high-quality academic books). I was deputy chairman 2014-2022 and is since 2023 chairman of its editorial board and editor of Kriterium.
I was (2016-2022) chairman of the Faculty board of Culture and Society at Malmö University.
I was (2019-2022) board member of the Faculty board of Arts and Humanities at Linnæus University.
I am since 2023 deputy member of the Swedish Emigrant Institute and member of its research council.
Elected member of Vetenskapssocieteten, Lund, 2003.
Elected member of the Royal Society of Letters at Lund, 2023.
I have been awarded several scholarly awards, among them the Einar Hansen Research Fund Award 2012 and the Swedish Political Science Association Award 2018 for best article in Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift (Journal of Political Science) 2017.
Professor
- History
- Department of History
Contact information
E-mail ulf.zanderhist.luse
Phone +46 46 222 79 61
Mobile +46 73 403 46 51
Room LUX:A315
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30