CUSP - Key Persons
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- Research Administrator / Documentation and Archiving / HR Administration
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- IT and Infrastructure Manager
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- Chairman of Social Sciences
- Fellow, Founding Director and Former Principal
Björn Wittrock is Chair of Social Sciences and Vice-President ex officio of Academia Europaea. He is
Björn Wittrock has published five monographs and fifteen anthologies with leading international publishers,
such as Cambridge University Press, Berghahn and Brill. He has written on the history and sociology of
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- Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee
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- Director
- Principal
- Principal / Professor of Social Anthropology
- Principal and Permanent Fellow, SCAS
- Professor
Christina Garsten became Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University in 2008.
She served as Chair of the Department of Social Anthropology between 2002 and 2011.
Since 2022 she is President of the European network of institutes for advanced study, NetIAS.
Christina Garsten serves on academic boards and committees. She is a member of the Royal Society of
Christina Garsten was previously Director of Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (Score),
and later on Chair of the Executive Board of Score. She was a member of the Executive Board of the
Christina Garsten has also chaired the Research Panel for Research on Civil Society at the Swedish
Research Council (VR). She regularly serves on the European Commission's research programme
evaluation panels as an expert. Garsten is a long-term member of AAA, the European Association of
Social Anthropologists (EASA) and the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS). She is a
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- Project Administrator / Executive Assistance to the Principal
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- Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Universität Regensburg
Hans Rott studied philosophy and logic at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He received his
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- Senior Researcher, Leibniz - Institut Für Europäische Geschichte and Johannes - Gutenberg - Universität, Mainz
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- Pro Futura Scientia Fellow
Kieron Barclay completed his PhD in Sociology at Stockholm University in 2014. Before being awarded
the Pro Futura Scientia Fellowship, Barclay spent time at the University of Pennsylvania, the London
Linn Holmberg earned her PhD in History of Science and Ideas from Umeå University in 2014. Her
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- Historian
- Pro Futura Scientia Fellow
Lisa Hellman is a historian working at the intersection between social, cultural, maritime and
Since 2021, Hellman has been directing NordGlob, a network for global history in the Nordic
Margaret Litvin worked as a journalist in New Orleans before entering graduate study at the
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- Administrative Coordinator / Finance, HR and Strategic Planning
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- Professor of History, Uppsala University
Maria Ågren received in 1992 her Ph.D. in History at Uppsala University, where, since 2002, she
has held a professorship in history. In 2009, she was appointed Wallenberg Scholar, and in 2013,
she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Jyväskylä. She has been a panel chair
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- Communications Officer / External Communications
Sari Nauman is an early modern historian with a background in political science and philosophy.
Nauman completed her Ph.D. in 2017 at the University of Gothenburg, where she was promoted to
Docent (Associate Professor) in 2021. In between, she held research positions at the Centre for
As Pro Futura Fellow, Nauman will critically assess available analytical frameworks for translating early
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- Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee
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- Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee