Research - Department of Modern History and Society

Research

Department of Modern History and Society

Research

Research

We work actively on a wide range of projects with various internal and external sources of funding, including several with support through the Research Council's FRIPRO and Toppforsk schemes. Moreover, we have several interdisciplinary research collaborations.

We also work purposefully to incorporate research results into teaching through ongoing educational projects.

Our goal is to show how the discipline of history can be used to create new academic insight in a number of fields in which we have specialist expertise. We also aim to contribute to increased understanding of social change processes that are important for a number of other fields, including in technology, economics and politics.

Most recent projects

Most recent projects

Norwegian-Jewish Life and the wider society

Internal Fortress

2024-2028: Regulating European Freedom of Movement within the Nation-State, 1950-1980
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Norwegian-Jewish Life and the wider society

The Situation for Norwegian Jews after the Holocaust
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Part of a world map

BLOCKADE

explores the two blockades of the First and Second World Wars, and their aftermaths.
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Other active projects

Other active projects

Deep sea mining. Illustration by NTNU Oceans.

Triple Deep

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Source: Henrik Ørsted, Oslo Museum.

Cinema and Movie Audiences in the Nordic Region, 1930s-1950s

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Source: Nicholas Hartman. Licence:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en. Photo has been made smaller and some of the sides are cut off.

Fate of Nations

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An elderly woman and her granddaughter during the forced evacuation from Finnmark, 1944. Source: Norges Hjemmefrontmuseum.

Histories of Refugeedom in the Nordic Countries

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Patient is being admitted to Reitgjerdet asylum in the 1920s. Source: Øyvind Thomassen/Justismuseet

Prison of Madness

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Greyzones

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