New professors at the Faculty of Arts

Hjørungdal Tove
TOVE HJØRUNGDAL
Born: 1956
Title of doctoral thesis: Det skjulte kjønn. Patriarkal tradisjon og feministisk visjon i arkeologien belyst med fokus på en jernalderkontekst
Tove Hjørungdal was born in Hjørungavåg, Norway. Following studies at the university in Bergen, she obtained her doctorate from Lund University in 1991. From 1992 to 1996 she served as postdoctoral research fellow at Umeå University. She was appointed Senior Lecturer at the University of Gothenburg in 1996 and Docent (Reader) in 2002. She has worked as a visiting lecturer in Durham, UK, and in Tromsø, Norway, and has done fieldwork in Scandinavia and Italy. Her main areas of interest are Science History, Feminist Science Analysis, History of Stone Age Archaeology and Prehistoric Burial Practices. On 18 January 2010 she was appointed Professor of Archaeology at the Department of Historical Studies.

Karlsson Håkan
HÅKAN KARLSSON
Born: 1962
Title of doctoral thesis: Re-Thinking Archaeology
Håkan Karlsson was born in Gothenburg, earned his doctorate in 1998 and was appointed Docent (Reader) in Archaeology at the University of Gothenburg in 2005. He has held a post-doctoral position at Cambridge University and worked as Senior Lecturer at Lund University before being hired as a Teacher at the University of Gothenburg in 2003. On 18 January 2010 he was appointed Professor of Archaeology at the Department of Historical Studies.

Magnusson Thomas
THOMAS MAGNUSSON
Born: 1946
Title of doctoral thesis: Det militära proletariatet. Studier kring den värvade armén, arbetsmarknadens kommersialisering och urbaniseringen i frihetstidens västsvenska samhälle
Thomas Magnusson earned his doctorate in History from the University of Gothenburg in 1987. Besides his doctoral thesis, he has authored several other source-based monographs about West Swedish history, as well as a few textbooks for the undergraduate courses in History. His research concerns, among other things, the substantial social change that occurred in the 18th and 19th centuries and the developments in the 1920s-1940s. Magnusson and a colleague are currently involved in a project that deals with the antifascist resistance of exile and Swedish Communists in Sweden 1933-1947. He has also served on the Alltinget expert panel for 13 years (Alltinget is a popular Swedish radio programme where listeners call in to ask the experts questions). On 30 June 2010 he was appointed Professor of History at the Department of Historical Studies.

Möller Håkan
HÅKAN MÖLLER
Born: 1959
Titles of doctoral theses: Den wallinska psalmen and Den wallinska dikten. Från informatorsåren till Dödens ängel
Håkan Möller was born in Västerås, Sweden, and holds two doctoral degrees, both from Uppsala University – one in Theology from 1997 and one in Comparative Literature from 2000. From 1996 to 1997 he worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge. He was appointed Docent (Reader) in Comparative Literature at Uppsala University in 2003 and in Nordic Literature at the University of Helsinki in 2004. His most recent work is titled Pär Lagerkvist. Från författarsaga till Nobelpris (2009). On 1 January 2011 he was appointed Professor of Comparative Literature at the Department of Literature, History of Ideas and Religion.

Samuelson Lennart
LENNART SAMUELSON
Born: 1948
Title of doctoral thesis: Soviet Defence Industry Planning: Tukhachevskii and Military-Industrial Mobilization, 1926–1937
Lennart Samuelson obtained his doctorate in Economic History from the Stockholm School of Economics in 1996. His research in recently opened Russian archives has resulted, for example, in the monographs Röd koloss på larvfötter: Rysslands ekonomi i skuggan av 1900-talskrigen, Plans for Stalin’s War-Machine (both 1999), Tankograd: The Formation of a Soviet Company-Town (2011, in Swedish 2007) and Stalin, NKVD and the Repressions, 1936–1938 (2011, in Russian 2008), as well as in Les Campagnes Soviétiques vues par l’OGPU-NKVD, 1930–1934 (2004). Samuelson has been a visiting researcher at the Swedish National Defence College, and is since 2008 tied to the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics. During the 2010-2011 school year he is the holder of the Waernska visiting professorship at the Department of Historical Studies.