Research
We are a large department with three subjects. There are over 50 teachers and researchers. We also have a large doctoral education with Ph.d students in history and human rights, among other things, through a National Graduate School in Historical Studies and a Graduate School in History Didactics. The last few years we have had around 20 PhD students employed.
Human rights is a multidisciplinary research environment, gladly focusing on the historiography of human rights in the early modern and modern periods, about rights in political philosophy, questions of religion, military and humanitarian intervention, nationalism, and women’s movements around the world.
The research in history today has a focus on cultural history. In terms of chronology, the research stretches from early middle ages to the present with somewhat more focus on the early modern period and the 19th century. Some of the research is aimed at educational history and the use of history. The department is leading in the fields of historical culture and history didactics.
The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies serves as a meeting-place for scholars at Lund University with an interest in East and South-East Asia and collaborates in developing joint research projects. Individual research projects at the Centre currently cover religion in South-East Asia, economic developments and children’s issues in China, or Japan’s foreign policy.
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