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The Oxford Group at Uppsala University (OGUU)

 

The Oxford Group at Uppsala University (OGUU) was founded in March 2004. OGUU has in collaboration with The Modern European History Research Centre (MEHRC) at the Faculty of Modern History, University of Oxford, established The Oxford­Uppsala Programme (OXUP), which is a research cooperation and graduate student exchange programme, currently funded by STINT (Stiftelsen för internationalisering av högre utbildning och forskning, the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education), the John Fell Foundation at University of Oxford, and at Uppsala University by Strategiska medel från Rektor, Humanistisk-Samhällsvetenskapliga området och Utbildningsvetenskapliga Fakultetsnämnden.

Call for applications for scholarships
Graduate course Historical controversies. Modernisation and Mobilisation: State, Nation and Gender in Europe, 1600–2000, April-June 2009.
Research collaboration
Teaching collaboration

Members of the Oxford Group at Uppsala University

Alyson J. K. Bailes
Chairperson of Oxford University Society Nordic
Director of SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), former British ambassador in Finland
<bailes@sipri.org>

Donald Broady
Professor of Education, Uppsala University
<broady@nada.kth.se>

Tore Frängsmyr
Professor of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University
<tore.frangsmyr@idehist.uu.se>

Maths Isacson
Professor of Economic History, Uppsala University
<maths.isacson@ekhist.uu.se>

Christopher A. Lagerqvist (Director of the group)
D.Phil. in Economic History
<christopher.lagerqvist@ekhist.uu.se>
http://www.anst.uu.se/chrislag/
Telephone Swedish mobile: +46 (0)702 779063, British mobile: (0044) 0752 790 22 06

Monica Langerth Zetterman
D.Phil. Candidate in Education
<monica.langerth@ped.uu.se>

Jan Lindegren
Professor of History, Uppsala University
<jan.lindegren@hist.uu.se>

Maria Ågren
Professor of History, Uppsala University
<maria.agren@hist.uu.se>

Presentation of the members' research

Professor Donald Broady works in the field of the sociology of education and culture, with special interests in elites and education, cultural fields, history of education, students' trajectories, transnational educational strategies, and education in sub-Saharan Africa. He is also engaged in research on mark-up languages (SGML, XML etc) and Internet applications. He collaborates in particular with French colleagues and co-directs the research network "Formation des élites et internationalisation de la culture" with partners in 21 countries. He is a member of the Swedish Research Council's Committee for Educational Science and the Director of a new Swedish National Research School for Educational History.

Professor Tore Frängsmyr retired in 2005.

Professor Maths Isacson has a broad list of publications on subjects relating to agricultural and industrial history and their links to the modern welfare state. He is the author of several books, including Proto-industrialisation in Scandinavia, craft skills in the industrial revolution and Everyday economy, work and maintenance in a Swedish rural district during the 20th century. Quiet recently he has published the fifth part of The History of Swedish Agriculture focusing on the period of 1945–2000. He is currently working in the field of social unrest and social order in the age of industrialisation in Sweden, at the Department of Economic History at Uppsala University. He is also working on the contemporary industrial transition and the use of the cultural heritage in the Nordic and Baltic countries.

Professor Jan Lindegren, who is a member of Academia Europea, has mainly worked on topics connected to war and society in a Scandinavian perspective during the early modern period. Within this field he has mainly dealt with four areas: a) the social effects of war, b) state building and war, c) war finances, d) military logistics. He has also written several essays on the theory of history. The following articles have been published in other languages than Swedish: The Swedish Military State 1560-1720; Men, Money and Means (also in French); Two thousand years of warfare (also in Dutch); Forest EMERGY Basis for Swedish Power in the 17th Century (also in German); The politics of expansion in 17th Century Sweden (also in Spanish); Frauenland und Soldatenleben. He is currently working on a book on the logistics and the war economy of the Great Northern War.

Professor Maria Ågren is working in the field of gender, culture and economic development in the early modern period. She is particularly interested in applying a comparative perspective to the field of gender and economic development, and in applying institutional theory, e.g. to what extent can the early appearance of capitalism in England and Holland be explained with reference to the comparatively privileged position of women in those countries? Can the much later development in Scandinavia also be explained by the restrictions placed upon women as economic actors? Professor Ågren is already working on a book in this field, devoted to married women’s property rights in Sweden in the 17th and 18th centuries. She is a member of the Swedish Research Council, and chairman of the panel in charge of historical sciences and archeology. Her latest major publication is The Marital Economy in Scandinavia and Britain 1400-1900 (editors M Ågren & A L Erickson; Ashgate 2005).

D.Phil. Christopher Lagerqvist wrote his Ph.D. thesis on Why live in the middle of nowhere? Migration and Strategies to earn a living in Ängersjö Community, 1950–1990. Thereafter, he will start to work in two different research fields: (1) Social Unrest and Social Control in Sweden, 1809–1991 (directed by professor Isacson), and (2) Comparative Studies in Higher Education: The Cases of the Kingdom of Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. As an introduction to the latter field, he has recently published the article "What is there to be learned from Oxford?" in which he addresses the question of which qualitative surplus can be received by the Oxford tutorial system at the Faculty of Modern History.

D.Phil. Monica Langerth Zetterman is currently involved in the field of sociology of education and culture. She is also working as a lecturer and is the co-ordinator of the research program Digital Literature at Uppsala University (directed by professor Broady).

 

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