Senior lecturer
Member of NORFAS Steering CommitteeDepartment 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