Hampus Östh Gustafsson

Researcher at Department of History of Science and Ideas

E-mail:
hampus.osthgustafsson@idehist.uu.se
Visiting address:
Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3P
Postal address:
Box 629
751 26 UPPSALA

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Researcher in History of Science and Ideas. In 2021, I defended my doctoral thesis on the legitimacy of the 20-century humanities in Swedish politics of knowledge. Since then, I have broadened my research on the history of the humanities in the modern period, and engaged with issues of infrastructures, organisation, and temporalities in the history of universities. My current research concerns the history of research funding and the societal circulation of humanistic knowledge.

Keywords

  • history of education
  • history of humanities
  • historiography
  • history of knowledge
  • politics of knowledge
  • history of universities
  • crisis
  • democracy
  • temporalities
  • book history
  • history of research funding

Biography

PhD, History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, 2021.

Reviews of my doctoral dissertation are available in History of Humanities and Nordic Journal of Educational History.

2023–2025 I also conduct the project "The Humanist Diaspora: Migration of Humanists and the Circulation of Knowledge in Swedish Society 1876–1926" at Lund University, funded by the Crafoord Foundation.

Researcher in the interdisciplinary group HEOS (Higher Education Organization Studies) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2023.

Research Fellow, Vossius Center for the History of Humanities and Sciences, University of Amsterdam, 2022.

Visiting doctoral student, Faculty of English, University of Oxford, 2017.

MA, History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, 2014.

Erasmus student, History, University of Manchester, 2011.

Research

At Uppsala University, I am part of the project "Funding Effects: The Emergence of Public Research Councils and the Formation of the Human Sciences in Sweden, 1947–1977"(https://fundingeffects.com).

I am also PI of the interdisciplinary research group project "Freedom to Research: Shifting Funding Regimes and their Effects on Early-Career Academics in SSH", funded as part of the Constructive Advanced Thinking Program (NetIAS) which includes a number of research stays at SCAS (Uppsala), Zunkunftskolleg Konstanz, FRIAS (Freiburg), Paris IAS, and CAS (Oslo).

My research interests are focused on the history of universities, the societal value of the human sciences, and the modern politics of knowledge. My articles have appeared in journal such as Higher Education, History of Humanities och History of Intellectual Culture. I am editor of the Swedish journal Högre Utbildning and member of the Early Career Researcher Board of Higher Education Quarterly.

In my doctoral thesis, I examined how the humanities were legitimised in Swedish society during the 20th century, thus attempting to historicise the recurring notion of the so-called 'crisis in the humanities'. The thesis also sheds new light on the shifting relationship between the humanities and democracy, thereby generating new perspectives to ongoing debates on the state and legitimacy of the humanities.

I also have an interest in historical theory and book history, which I will develop in upcoming projects.

Hampus Östh Gustafsson

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