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Christer Nordlund
Christer Nordlund, professor of history of science and ideas, is the director of USSTE. Christer is a historian of science and ideas focusing on the cultural, material and intellectual history of science, technology and the environment from 1800 onward, mainly in a Scandinavian context. His research has been focused on three subjects: the history of the field sciences, i.e. geology, plant geography, ecology and archaeology; the history of endocrinology and the links between life science, medicine and industry; and environmental history, i.e. the co-construction of environmental science, environmental politics and environmental problems. He has also taken an interest in current science policy and theories of research organization and cooperation.
Jenny Eklöf
My research interests revolve around the interaction between science, politics and the media in a broad sense. Empirically, I have studied the Swedish gene technology policy, 1980-2000, seen through the prism of governmental commissions. (PhD thesis) Currently, I am working on issues relating to the contested effectiveness and sustainability of domestically produced biofuels for transport, specifically cellulosic ethanol. These studies are conducted within the Fuel of the Future programme, funded by the research council Formas. My work also includes being a board member of the Swedish Gene Technology Advisory Board, representing the fields of human sciences. The Board is an advising body to the Swedish government and government authorities.
Finn Arne Jörgensen
My research and teaching is at the intersection of history of technology and environment. My research interests include topics such as technology in nature; the infrastructure of wilderness; the connection between place and knowledge making; design and consumption; and waste and recycling, predominantly in the 19th and 20th centuries, in Scandinavia and the US. My most recent book is Making A Green Machine: The Infrastructure of Beverage Container Recycling (Rutgers University Press, 2011).
At present I'm working on a book manuscript about the history of the Norwegian leisure cabin from 1850 until present, focusing particularly on the technical infrastructure that developed around and inside the cabin and how that influenced the experience of nature at the cabin. The project will end up as a sophisticated, richly illustrated book targeted at a broad audience. The project has received much public attention in Norway: I have presented my research on national TV and radio, in newspapers and magazines. The manuscript started as a postdoctoral project funded by the Research Council of Norway in 2008. My essay "Simple Comforts: Technology, Convenience, and Simplicity in Norwegian Leisure Cabins, 1950-1980" was awarded the Society for the History of Technology Samuel Eleazar and Rose Tartakow Levinson Prize for best unpublished essay in 2009. I blog about my leisure cabin research at http://www.hyttedrommen.net/
Jason W. Moore
I have published widely on the history of capitalism in Europe, Latin America, and the United States, from the long sixteenth century to the neoliberal era. My essays have been recognized with the Braverman Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (1999); the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the American Sociological Association’s Political Economy of the World-System Section (2002); and the Alice Hamilton Prize of the American Society for Environmental History (2004). I am presently completing Ecology and the rise of capitalism, an environmental history of the rise of capitalism, for the University of California Press
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