Klaus Petersen#
| Membership Number: | 5862 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | DENMARK |
| Homepage(s): | https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/persons/kpe |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0261-2118 |
| Twitter: | @KlausPSDU |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/klaus.petersen.77 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - 2020 Professor II, Centre for Development and Environment, Oslo University
- 2016 - present Professor, Department of Political Science, SDU
- 2008 - present Director, Centre for Welfare State Research, SDU
- 2007 - present Professor, Department of History, SDU
- 2003 - 2007 Associate Professor in Political History, Department of History, SDU
- 2001 - 2003 Assistant Professor in Contemporary History, Department of History, SDU
- 2000 - 2001 Post doc. researcher, Department of History, University of Copenhagen
- 1997 - 2000 PhD Student, Department of History, University of Copenhagen
- 1996 - 1997 Researcher, Greenland National Archives (Copenhagen)
Fields of Scholarship
- Transnational history
- Interdisciplinary studies
- Welfare studies
- Contemporary history
- Social policy
- Nordic studies
- Political science
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Knight’s Cross of the Dannebrog Order (awarded by Queen Magrethe 2)
- 2019 - present Chair Humanities, Danish Institute for Advance Studies
- 2013 Docent in Political History, Faculty of Social Science, University of Helsinki
- 2013 Svend Henning Prize for best book in contemporary History
- 2002 Danish Labour History Prize (Danish Society for Labour History)
- 1996 Gold Medal, University of Copenhagen
