2025 Geijer Prize
The 2025 Geijer Prize goes to Jezzica Israelsson and to Jonatan Andersson. Photo: Private collection.
The 2025 Geijer Prize goes to Jezzica Israelsson and to Jonatan Andersson.
The Geijer Prize is awarded every three years to researchers at Uppsala University who have defended their doctoral thesis in the intervening period on a topic that is deemed particularly prominent in Swedish history.
The 2025 Geijer Prize is shared between Jezzica Israelsson for her doctoral thesis “Making Themselves Heard: Women’s and Men’s Voice Through the Regional Petitioning Process in Sweden, 1758–1880”; and Jonatan Andersson for his doctoral thesis “Migrants and Towns. Self-Selection and Occupational Attainment of Rural-Urban Migrants in Swedish History”.
The Geijerska stiftelsen’s prize medal. Photo from the Alvin platform.
The prizewinners will receive the Geijerska Foundation’s prize medal with a bust of Erik Gustav Geijer and share SEK 44,000.
The prize will be presented in the University’s Great Hall in connection with the commemoration of the University’s anniversary on 7 October.
Anders Berndt