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Andresen, Katrine Juul
Coastal waters, Denmark's geology, Landscape, Seismic surveys, Subsoil structure (Paleolandscape analyses)
Arnórsdóttir, Agnes S.
Cultural history (canon law, marriage), Cultural history (Religion and donation, death culture), Denmark and Scandinavia (Iceland, Icelandic Sagas, Law and legal culture), History of gender (Maskulinities in the Viking ages, religion and pow), Identity (Historical writing during the Medieval age, Memory Narration Identity), Kinship and family (Kinship system in Scandinavian during Medieval Age)
Atzbach, Rainer
Archaeology of buildings (Castles, Concealed Finds, Timber-Framed Houses), Medieval archaeology, Renaissance archaeology
Baggesgaard, Mads Anders
Empires and colonies (Danish colonial history, Danish West Indies, Slavery), Film history (African film, Cultural history of film, Film and globalizaition, Film and politics), France (Contemporary French literature, French colonialism), Globalisation (Literature and globalization, Postcolonialism), World literature (Dave Eggers, Francois Bon, Georges Perec, Globalization and literature, Jonathan Littell, Michel Houellebecq, Pierre Alferi, Thomas Pynchon, Vladimir Sorokin)
Bakker, Peter
Africa, American, Native, Canada (early history, First Nations, Metis, language), Empires and colonies (Africa: Danes in Ghana, Canada's east coast ca. 1600, cultural encounters, India), Language Politics and Language Pedagogics, Language acquisition (language disorders, twins), Language history (comparative linguistics, etymology) (gender differences, language change, languages in contat), Morphology (polysynthetic lanuages, reduplication), North America in general (First Nations, Native Americans), Other Languages, Other countries (Sri Lanka Portuguese), Others, Phonetics and phonology, West Africa (creoles, Danish activities, Ghana, pidgins)
Bek-Thomsen, Jakob
Actor-network-theory (ANT), Cultural history, Feminist critique of technology, Historiography, History of Science and Technology, History of ideas/science for the sciences, History of medicine, History of mentalities, History of technology, Perceptions of illness, Philosophy of education and history of the concept of education, Philosophy of history, Philosophy of science for the humanities, Political economics and economic criticism, Studies of science and technology
Bøegh, Kristoffer Friis
Danish lexicography (dictionaries) (Documentary lexicography), Dialect (Contact languages, Jutland, The Anglophone Caribbean, Varieties of Danish), Empires and colonies (Danish West Indies, US Virgin Islands), History of ideas/science for the humanities, History of the Danish language (Linguistic variation), Language history (comparative linguistics, etymology)
Böss/Bøss, Michael
Arctic (Arctic Canada), Attitudes and Politics, Australia, Canada, Citizen involvement, Concept of democracy, Contemporary Europe (Danish politics), Globalisation, Identity, Meeting of cultures, Nationalism, Society and citizens, UK (History, society and politics)
Brænder, Morten
Digital culture and communication (blogs, milblogs), History of mentalities (english civil war, puritanism), Identity, Medieval political philosophy, Nationalism (Nationalism and religion), Qualitative Methods, Sociology of religion (Civil religion, Religion in public space), State and sovereignty, USA (Religion in the USA), Violence
Brimnes, Niels
Empires and colonies (cultural encounters, India), Globalisation (decolonizatoin, India), History of medicine (India, tuberculosis, vaccinations), Social history (cultural encounters, India, public health)
Bugge, Peter
Cultural history (Czech cultural history), Czech (Czech linguistics, translation Czech-Danish), Czech Republic (Czech language, history, politics, and culture), History of mentalities (Czech nationalism and national self-perception), Political history (Czech/Slovak political history), Political history (Czech history since 1780), Slovakia (Slovak history and politics), World literature (Czech literature)
Carter, Dale
Cultural history (American music and culture 1950-1975), Popular music (American popular music, 1950-1975), Rock (American rock music, 1950-1975), USA
Cole, Richard
Administration and bureaucracy, Agriculture (Peasant studies), Denmark and Scandinavia, Ethnicity, Iceland, Old Norse
Dalsgaard, Inger Hunnerup
Cultural contact (American culture), Digital literature, narration/storytelling, hypertext, net literature (Cyberpunk literature), Everyday life (American folk and consumer culture, Romantic fiction, Women in America), Fashion (19th century American women, Women in Politics), Film analysis (American movies), Identity (Asian-Americans), Literary epochs (Thomas Pynchon, US literature), Modernity (technology), Popular culture (Conspiracy culture, Disney, Marilyn Monroe), Social history (American First Ladies), USA, Visual art (American)
Dias, Tobias
Aesthetics and art, Art as an institution, Avant-garde, Critical theory, Film aesthetics, Film history, History of aesthetics after 1735, History of historical understanding, Media theory and criticism, Modern philosophy of history, Philosophical aesthetics, The idea and intellectual history of the university, The knowledge society, history of art
Elklit, Jørgen
Development of states (democratic legitimacy, democratisation, elections and democratic development), Elections and voters (democracy assessment, election administration quality assessment, local party systems, Turnout), Electoral systems, Political history (electoral system development)
Engberg, Jakob
Church history (persecutions, martyrs and apologists), Religion and society (religion and politics, church and empire, Roman government and jurisprudence, Roman history)
Gram-Skjoldager, Karen
Denmark and Scandinavia (Nordic co-operation, Nordic Policy), Political history (European interwar history, International law, internationalism, League of Nations)
Hannestad, Lise
Economic history (Trade in Ancient Greece), Greek archaeology (Greek iconography, Greek Pottery, Hellenistic sculpture, Material culture and identity), Peripheral regions (Black Sea archaeology, The Etruscans, The Near East in the Hellenistic period), Roman archaeology (Food and Drink in the Roman World), Town and country
Hansen, Annette Skovsted
Africa in general, Cultural history, Development of states (Development assistance/ Foreign Aid), Globalisation (Capacity Development, Denmark, Development Assistance/ Foreign Aid, Epistemic communities, Japan, Knowledge production, Networks (Alumni/social)), International organisations (United Nations), Japan (Development Assistance/ Foreign Aid, National Language Dictionaries), Japanese (Japanese as national language and Ainu), Linguistic identity (Dictionaries, National Languages), Security (East Asia), Social history, The international community (United Nations)
Harste, Gorm
Conflict, Critical theory, Critique of civilisation (starting with Rousseau), Cultural change, Current philosophy of history and contemporary diagnostics, Democracy and power, Development of states, Ethical and moral forms of reasoning, Europe in general, European integration, France, Germany, Modern philosophy of history, Modernity, late modernity and post-modernity, Organisational ethics, Political history, Power and politics, Scientific history of the social sciences, Security, The EU and Europe, The international community
Hauge, Hans
Anthropology and Ethnography, Attitudes and Politics, Australia and Oceania, Concept of Culture, Contemporary Denmark, Contemporary Europe, Contemporary World, Culture and Society, Democracy and Citizens, Drama, English, Europe, Faith, Historical Method, Language Philosophy (language, signs and images), Language Use (text and conversation), Language, Thought and Society (psycho/sociolinguistics), Linguistics (grammar etc), Literature, Modern History, Europe, Modern History, World, Music, North America, Polar Regions, Religion, Research Methods, Rhetoric, Scandinavian Countries, State, Region and Municipality, The Bible, The Church, Theory and Analysis of Culture, Theory and History of Aesthetics, Theory and History of Art, Thinkers
Ifversen, Jan
Concept of Culture, Corpus linguistics (discourse analysis), Critique of civilisation (starting with Rousseau) (barbarianism, The history of the concept of civilization), Culture and Society, Democracy and Citizens, Globalisation (transnational movements), History of mentalities (the history of the concept of Europe), Identity (European identity), Ideology and attitudes (European ideologies), Intellectual history of the nation and welfare state, Meeting of cultures (Europe and its others, theories on cultural encounters), Nationalism (The conceptual history of nationalism), Philosophers, Political history (The history of European democracy), Structuralism (discourse theory), Theories of democracy
Jensen, Mette Frisk
Modern History, Denmark (history of administration in Denmark 1660 - 1900, history of corruption in Denmark,)
Krasilnikoff, Jens
Economic history, Greco-Roman Antiquity, Political history (Greek military history, mercenaries, The History of the first Athenian empire), Reception of Antiquity, Religion and society, Social history, Town and country (Agricultural Strategies in Attica, 800 - 100 BC., Culturel Ecology, Formation of of landscapes and cityscapes, Marginal land, Resources of ancient Greek Farming)
Kristensen, Troels Myrup
Archaeology of Late Antiquity (Asia Minor, Egypt, Near East), Graeco-Roman religions, Greco-Roman Antiquity, Greek archaeology, Religion and society (iconoclasm, pilgrimage, religious violence), Roman archaeology (Roman sculpture, Social identity, Visual culture)
Kuhlmann, Annelis
Baltic states (contemporary theatre performances, The theatre as a tools of historiography), Cultural history, Denmark (Contemporary Danish History of Theatre), Drama analysis (Postwar drama), Dramatic art (Danish traditions of directing, Theatre Directing in the Postwar Period), Dramaturgy (Applied dramaturgy in mise en scenes), East European and East Asian Languages (Russian, Chinese, Japaneseetc), France (French drama and theatre, Mise en scene as incorporated in French drama), French, Modern aesthetic theory, Modern drama (Contemporary European Drama), Performance (Performance in a theatrical use of the space), Renaissance, Europe (framing of theatrical forms), Russia (Russian art of acting, Russian directing (mise en scene) in the theatre, Russian scenography and stage design, Russian Theatre Pedagogics, Stanislavsky's writings, The heritage from Stanislavsky), Russian, Theatre analysis (Odin Teatret, Performance analysis, Terminology of the art of acting, the professional language of the director, The staging of classics, The verbalisation of the mise en scene, Theatre conventions, Theatre historiography, Theatre history, Theatricality), Theory and History of Aesthetics
Lægring, Kasper
Architecture, Avant-garde (Adolf Loos, Collage, Denise Scott Brown, Rem Koolhaas, Robert Venturi, Surrealism), Contemporary art (Biomorph architecture, Contemporary architecture, Digital architecture, Hal Foster, Tectonic culture), Cultural theory (Collective memory, Memory studies), Design (Arts and Crafts, Bauhaus, Frank Lloyd Wright), Germany (Urban history of Berlin), Golden Age (Genre painting), High and low culture, Historiography (Charles Jencks, Manfredo Tafuri, Reyner Banham, Sigfried Giedion), History of aesthetics after 1735 (Christoph Menke, Empathy, Nelson Goodman, The sublime), Interpretation, Modern aesthetics (starting with Baumgarten) (Christoph Menke, Empathy, Nelson Goodman, The sublime), Modernity (Critical Theory, Frankfurt School), Modernity, late modernity and post-modernity (Fredric Jameson, Manfredo Tafuri, Odo Marquard, Thomas P. Brockelman), Museums (history, layout, architecture, functions) (Museum architecture), Philosophical aesthetics, Philosophical aesthetics, The aesthetic in the modern world (Gesamtkunstwerk, Monumentality, Theatricality), The concept of the work, Urban history (Garden city, Metropolis, Urbanism), Urban history (Megalopolis), Visual analysis (Vilhelm Wanscher), Visual art (Genre painting), history of art (Danish Golden Age, Dutch Golden Age, Romanticism)
Larsen, Lars Thorup
Health, Health systems, Intellectual history of the nation and welfare state, Intoxicants, substance abuse and dependency, Perceptions of illness, Philosophy of social science, Religion and politics, Research and society, Scientific history of the social sciences, Society and citizens, The individual, The knowledge society, The state, Welfare state, Work and workplaces
Laursen, Johnny
Denmark and Scandinavia (Nordic co-operation, Nordic Council), EU, European integration (Danish European policy), Germany, Political history (European interwar history, German history, Nazism, The Cold War, The history of the EU), Political history (Denmark and the Cold War, Foreign policy, Interwar history, Labour history, Postwar history)
Machado-Guichon, Mélanie Lindbjerg
Economic history (Global Economic Inequality), Globalisation (Global Intellectual History), Political history (Global inequality), Power and politics (development, inequality), West Africa (Ghana)
Munk, Kasper Green
Cultural history (Cultural history of the war, Germany and the second world war, Memory theory, The air war, Vergangenheitsbewältigung), Essay writing and cultural journalism, History of criticism (War and literature), Literary epochs (20th century, Christoph Ransmayr, cultural memory, German postwar literature, Imre Kertész, Thomas Bernhard, W.G. Sebald, War literature), Poetics, poetry and philosophy (Aesthetics of the war, Literature and ethics, Memory, Poetics of the war, Witness Literature), Text theory and analysis
Nygaard, Bertel
Cultural history (Political theory, political culture), Historiography, Modernity, Philosophy of history, Philosophy of science, Political history (State building and social revolutions), Popular culture
Olesen, Mattias Gori
Empires and colonies (International anti-colonial cooperation), Islam (Dawoodi Bohras, Transregionalism), Nationalism (Egyptian nationalism, Internationalism, pan-Orientalism), Political history (Egyptian relations to India, China and Japan, Middle East)
Olesen, Thorsten Borring
Denmark and Scandinavia (Nordic co-operation, Nordic Policy), Denmark and the world, European integration (History and Development of the EC/EU), European integration (Danish European policy), Italy (History of Modern Italy), Political history (Fascism in the Inter War Period, History of Modern Italy, The Cold War), Political history (Denmark and the Cold War, Development Aid Policy, Foreign policy), The EU and Europe
Paulsen, Mikkel-Theis
Drama paedagogics (Ben Jonson, English Renaissance Drama, John Fletcher, John Lyly, Shakespeare), Empires and colonies (Age of Discovery, Colonialism, Early Imperialism, The New World), Historiography of literature (Early Modern Spanish Literature, Lope de Vega), History of criticism (Poetics), Latin and South America in general (Colonial Latin American Literature, European visions of Latin America), Literary epochs (El Siglo de Oro, Renaissance, The Baroque), Literary genres (Drama, Tragicomedy)
Pennington, Jody
Civil rights (Censorship in the US, Freedom of expression in the US), Communication theory, Cultural change, Cultural history, Cultural theory, Everyday life, Film aesthetics, Film analysis, Film history, Film theory, High and low culture, Material culture (Community development, Tourism), Modernity, Popular culture, Semiotics and semiology, Social history, USA
Petersen, Anders Klostergaard
Biological psychology, Canon (Processes of canonisation), Christianity (Early Christian Apologetics, Early Christian asceticism, Early Christianity in the pre-Constantine Period, Early patristics, The martyr literature, The Partings of the Way debate), Classical rhetoric, Cultural theory, Culture and cognition, Evolution, Feminist philosophy (Studies on the conception of gender and sexuality in antiquity), Gender, God (Contemporary concepts of God), Historical method and research techniques, History of mentalities (Intellectual history with regard to the study of the ancient world, Theorising on the possibilities for conducting intellectual history), History of research on religion (Myth and Ritual School, Roy A. Rappaport, The History of Religions School), Jesus (The Historical Jesus), Judaism (Apologetics in Early Judaism, Diaspora Judaism, Judaism of the Late Second Temple Period, Qumran - Dead Sea Scrolls), Lives of other animal and human species past and present, Multireligiosity (Epistemological conditions for modern Christianity), Myths and rituals (Ritual theory), New Testament (The Origin of the New Testament), Paul (The new perspective on Paul), Phenomenology of religion (Charism/charismatic(s) movements, Typological definitions of sacred texts), Psychology of cognition, Research methods (Ancient rhetorics and epistolography, Cultural and social anthropology, History of research, Ritual theory, Semiotics of religion), Rituals (Cognitive approaches (Boyer, McCauley/Lawson, etc., Cultural, symbolic approaches (Geertz, Rappaport), Ritual studies), Rituals, The Bible
Philippsen, Bente
Carbon 14 dating, Climate of the past (climate reconstruction with 14C dating and stable isotope analysis), Dating, Fjords (14C reservoir effect in fjords), Freshwater (freshwater reservoir effekt, hardwater effect), Hunter-gatherers (Ertebølle culture, Hunter-gatherer pottery), Land use (analysis of pottery -> distinguish terrestrial, marine and freshwater resources)
Poulsen, Birte
Archaeology of Late Antiquity (architecture, cultural exchange, cultural identity, glass, inscriptions, mosaics), Greek archaeology (Hellenistic architecture, Hellenistic mosaics, Hellenistic sculpture), Roman archaeology (Roman architecture, Roman glass, Roman pottery)
Rasmussen, Carsten Porskrog
Agriculture (manors), Cultural history (manors, princes), Economic history (agrarian history, manors, nobility), Political history (absolutism, schleswig-holstein), Renaissance, Denmark, Town and country (agrarian history, manors, nobility)
Risum, Janne
China, Classical drama, Comparative methods, Dramatic art, Dramaturgy, Historiography, History of historical understanding, History of mentalities, Modern drama, Performance, Theatre analysis (Asian theatre conventions, Kierkegaard and the theatre, Odin Teatret, Theatre conventions, Theatre history)
Romanowska, Izabela Anna
Archaeological data analysis, Modeling and Simulation (Agent-based modelling, complex systems simulation), Palaeolithic period, Roman archaeology
Sedgwick, Mark
Africa in general (Sudan), Cultural history (Neo-Sufism, Religiosity), Europe in general (Islam in Europe, Neo-Sufism), Islam (Islam and Muslims in Europe, Islamism, Modernization and reform, Sufism), Meeting of cultures (Islam and the West), Middle East in general (Arab world, Iran, Israel, Turkey), Mysticism and spirituality (Sufism, Traditionalism), Other countries (Malaysia, Singapore), Religion and politics (Eurasianism, Islam), Religious movements (Neo-Sufism, New religious movements, Typology), Security (Islamism, Middle East, Religion and terrorism)
Shepherd, Nick
Cultural history (Science and Technology Studies (STS), Environmental Humanities, Critical Heritage Studies, Poscolonial Archaeology, Archaeological Theory, African Studies, Visual Studies, Decolonial Thinking)