Peter Aronsson
Swedish historian
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- PhD History Uppsala University
- Masters History Uppsala University
- Bachelors History Uppsala University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Peter Aronsson is the Vice-Chancellor of Linnaeus University since 2017. He is a Swedish historian specializing in early-modern political culture and public history. Academic career Peter Aronsson is born into a family of medium enterprisers in Gemla, Småland. His grandfather and father ran a toy factory in Gemla. In the late 1980s Aronsson took up doctoral studies in history at Uppsala University and later Lund University where he studied under Professor Eva Österberg. His PhD thesis, Bönder gör politik was successfully defended in 1992. In his thesis, Aronsson argues that the Swedish political culture has been shaped through a local practice with roots centuries back in time. After the completion of the thesis, Aronsson worked as a teacher and researcher at the Department of Humanities of Växjö College . In 1999 he was promoted to full professor in history. Aronsson's research was increasingly geared towards questions of how the past has been used in various contexts. In 1994 he published a textbook that summarized his ideas, Historiebruk - att använda det förflutna . In 2001 he took leave from Växjö University for a position as "Professor in Uses of History and Cultural Heritage" at Linköping University. During his tenure in Linköping he was involved in a major comparative European project about the significance of national museums for state and nation formation. The project was carried out with support from the European Union between 2010 and 2012, and resulted in several publications.
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