Lars M Andersson

Lars M Andersson

Senior lecturer

Member of NORFAS Steering Committee

Department of History, Uppsala University, Sweden

Contact
lars.m.andersson@hist.uu.se

Webpage
Lars M. Andersson – Uppsala universitet (uu.se)

Bio

Lars M. Andersson is Senior Lecturer at the Department of History, Uppsala University. Andersson has mainly done research on Swedish antisemitism and refugee policy, but has also published high school textbooks on history and religious studies, anthologies on contemporary history, counterfactual history, the image as a historical source, liability issues and moral debate in historical accounts on national socialism, migration, and Jewish history. He has previously been editor of Historisk tidskrift (Stockholm) and co-editor of the Lagerbringbiblioteket series, is an editorial board member of Historisk tidskrift, Nordisk Judaistik/ Scandinavian Jewish Studies and Opuscula Historica Upsaliensia, co-editor of the new Forum for Jewish Studies series, Uppsala Jewish Studies, and will from May 2022 serve as editor of Personhistorisk tidskrift. Andersson has supervised a considerable number of PhD students, was Director of Studies for Master’s and doctoral studies from 2003 to 2006 at his department, and from 2006 to 2012 head of the department. Since 2013, he is co-director of Forum for Jewish Studies at the Faculty of Theology. In 2019, he was awarded Uppsala University’s pedagogical prize in the field of the humanities, theology and educational science. Andersson was one of the inquiry experts on how to preserve and pass on Sweden’s Holocaust memory prior to the establishment of Sweden’s future Holocaust museum (Sveriges museum om Förintelsen).

Research interests

  • Antisemitism
  • Swedish-Jewish history
  • Fascism
  • Counterfactual history
  • Conspiracism

Featured publications

Andersson, Lars M., and Karin Kvist Geverts. 2017. ”Antisemitismen – antirasismens blinda fläck?” In Marie Lennersand and Leos Müller, eds., Från Afrikakompaniet till Tokyo. Vänbok till György Nováky.Stockholm: Bokförlaget Exkurs.
Andersson, Lars M., and Carl Henrik Carlsson, eds., 2013. Från sidensjalar till flyktingmottagning: judarna i Sverige: en minoritets historia. Uppsala: Historiska institutionen.
Andersson, Lars M., and Karin Kvist Geverts, eds., 2008. En problematisk relation? Flyktingpolitik och judiska flyktingar i Sverige 1920-1950. Uppsala: Historiska institutionen.
Andersson, Lars M., and Mattias Tydén, eds., 2007. Sverige och Nazityskland: skuldfrågor och moraldebatt. Stockholm: Dialogos.
Andersson, Lars M. and Henrik Bachner. 2006. ”Nationalsocialismen: en begreppsdiskussion.” In Greger Andersson and Ursula Geisler, eds., Fruktan, fascination och frändskap: det svenska musiklivet och nazismen, Lund: Sekel bokförlag. 31-46.
Andersson, Lars M., Lars Berggren, and Ulf Zander, eds., 2001. Mer än tusen ord: bilden och de historiska vetenskaperna. Lund: Nordic Academic Press.
Andersson, Lars M. 2000. En jude är en jude är en jude-: representationer av “juden” i svensk skämtpress omkring 1900-1930. Lund: Nordic Academic Press.
Andersson, Lars M., and Ulf Zander, eds., 1999. Tänk om-: nio kontrafaktiska essäer. Lund: Historiska Media.