Associate Professor Sari Nauman
Sari Nauman is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre and a Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, as well as a member of the Young Academy of Sweden. She currently holds a position as Senior Lecturer at the University of Gothenburg. Nauman is the recipient of several rewards, including the Birger Karlsson Science Award in 2023 and the Clio Award in 2018.
Nauman is an early modern historian with a background in political science and philosophy. Her work is characterized by its transdisciplinary approach, combining historical sources with social science theories, often from a transhistorical perspective. She explores concepts such as trust, security, and hospitality to understand how past communities and individuals managed situations of intense uncertainty.
At CRASSH, Nauman will develop conceptual tools for refugee history in the project ‘”Refugee” and “IDP”: Challenging Concepts in Refugee History’. A main case study of Baltic and Finnish forced migration during the Great Northern War (1700–1721), within the Swedish Empire, works as a stepping-stone for comparisons with other migrations within empires in the early modern world. By stuyding petitions, letters, and other historical documents, Nauman will analyse how past forced migrants negotiated belonging and protection with recipient authorities and communities. The results will feed into her book project on early modern IDPs and her work on refuge in the eighteenth-century Baltic Sea Region.
Select publications
- Sari Nauman, ‘Outsiders Within: Internally Displaced Persons in Sweden, 1700–1721’, in Geert Janssen & David de Boer (eds.): Refugee Politics in Early Modern Europe (London: Bloomsbury, 2024), pp. 85–102 (Open Access)
- Sari Nauman, ‘Sveriges första flyktingar – en global historia [The First Refugees of Sweden—A Global History]’, Karolinska Förbundets Årsbok (2023), pp. 7–30.
- Sari Nauman, Wojtek Jezierski, Christina Reimann & Leif Runefelt (eds.), Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century: Receiving Strangers in Northeastern Europe (London: Palgrave, 2022). (Open Access)
- Sari Nauman & Helle Vogt (eds.), Private/Public in 18th-Century Scandinavia (London: Bloomsbury, 2022). (Open Access)
- Wojtek Jezierski, Sari Nauman, Thomas Lindkvist & Biörn Tjällén, ‘Sweden Inc.: Temporal Sovereignty of the Realm and People from the Middle Ages to Modernity’, Scandinavian Studies 94:3 (2022), pp. 352–381.
- Sari Nauman, ‘Peripheral Promises: Political Oaths as Instruments of Trust and Control, Sweden 1520–1718’, The Seventeenth Century 37:3 (2022), pp.477–497.
- Sari Nauman, ‘Securitisation of Space and Time’, Journal of the British Academy 9:4s (2021), pp. 13–31. (Open Access)
- Ordens kraft: Politiska eder i Sverige, 1520–1718 [The Force of Words: Political Oaths in Sweden 1520–1718]. (Lund: Nordic Academic Press).
Select awards
- 2023 – The Birger Karlsson Science Award, awarded by The Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg
- 2018 – The Clio Award, awarded by the Historical Bookclub and Svenska Dagbladet, for outstanding dissertation
- 2017 – The Per Nyström Science Award for Historical Research, awarded by The Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg, for outstanding dissertation
Further links
Nauman is currently the PI of the following research projects:
https://www.gu.se/en/research/outsiders-within-internally-displaced-persons-in-early-modern-europe
