Associate professor, history
Department of Humanities
Mid Sweden University
831 25 Östersund
SWEDEN
Email: jonas.harvard [at] miun.se
Mobile phone: plus four six seven zero two 489282
Born 1971
Degrees
and titles
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Adjunct Professor[Finnish docent], History of Political Discourse and
Communication (in General history), Jyväskylä University, 2013
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Associate professor
[docent], History, Mid Sweden University, 2012
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PhD, History, Umeå
University, 2006
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Master of
Arts and Humanities, History, Mid Sweden University, 1998
Current
academic position
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Senior lecturer,
history/ Head of the Department of Humanities, Mid Sweden University
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Research coordinator,
Vice Chancellors office, Mid Sweden University
Previous
academic positions
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Senior research fellow, Dept. of Humanities, Mid Sweden University,
2008–2012
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Programme manager, International research programme Nordic Spaces,
Södertörn University, 2010–2012
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Research officer & Research coordinator, Faculty of the Human
Sciences & Vice Chancellors office, Mid Sweden University, 2009–2011
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Research
coordinator at Västernorrland County Council & Dept. of Humanities, Mid
Sweden University (jointly funded, 2007–2008)
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Lecturer in
History, Department of Humanities, Mid Sweden University, 2006
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Adjunct
lecturer in History, Dept. of Humanities, Mid Sweden University, 2003-2005
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Doctoral
student, Department of Historical Studies, Umeå University, 1997–2003 (On parental leave part of the time).
Leadership training
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“Achieving
Leadership Excellence”, London School
of Economics and Political Science, Executive education, 2012
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Course in
academic leadership, Södertörn University/ KTH Royal School of Technology,
Stockholm, 2011
Pedagogical training
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Graduate supervisor
training course, Mid Sweden University, 2008
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Course in
university pedagogy, Mid Sweden University, 1998
Teaching experience
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Invited
lecturer at Columbia University (US),
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, 2012
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Invited
lecturer at Department of History and Ethnology, Jyväskylä
University (FI), November 2011
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Invited
lecturer, Universidad de Cantabria,
Santander (ES) 2007
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Taught 1239
clock hours of A-C level courses in History, Mid Sweden University, 2003–2006
Supervising of PhD students
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Anna Friberg, Department of Humanities, Mid Sweden University, (Assistant
supervisor 2009–2013), PhD thesis defended 2013: “Demokrati bortom politiken: En
begreppshistorisk analys av demokratibegreppet inom Sveriges socialdemokratiska
arbetareparti 1919–1939” [Democracy Beyond Politics: An Analysis of the Concept
of Democracy within the Swedish Social Democratic Party 1919–1939]
·
Erik Nydahl, Department
of Humanities, Mid Sweden University, (Assistant supervisor 2009–2010), PhD
thesis defended 2010: I fyrkens tid. Politisk kultur i två
ångermanländska landskommuner 1860-1930 [Voting by income: The political
culture of two Swedish municipalities, 1860–1930].
Reviewer and expert assignments
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Reviewer for
Cantabria University Press/ McGraw-Hill, 2011
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Member of
national reference group, Royal Library of Sweden and National Archives of
Sweden, project on digitization of historical newspapers, Digidaily, 2011–
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International
expert evaluator for the title of “European doctor”, Universidad de La Rioja,
Spain, 2009
Visiting scholar
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University of Jyväskylä,
Finland, Department of History and Ethnology (series of fortnight visits),
2009–2012
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Royal Institute of
Technology, Stockholm, Department of History of Technology and Science, April
& May 2009
Research grants
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Co-applicant
(with professor Yvonne Maria Werner, Lund) for awarded network funding (250k
SEK) from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, for the
research network AntCath – Anti-Catholicism in transnational and comparative
perspective, joining together some 25 scholars from Europe and the US, 2010
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Co-applicant:
Parliamentary
means of conflict resolution in twentieth-century Britain. Led by Professor Pasi Ihalainen, University of Jyväskylä. Funded by the Academy
of Finland, 500'000 Eur. Homepage: http://research.jyu.fi/parliamentary_means/,
2009
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Main
applicant: Distant news and local opinion: How the
telegraph affected spatial and temporal horizons in northern Scandinavia,
1850-1880 Funded
by The Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, and Nordforsk together with
five other research agencies, 1,3 MSEK (International call, 6% of
applications were granted.) 2008. Part of the Nordic Spaces research programme.
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Ridderstads stiftelse för grafisk historisk forskning, research
grant, 2006
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Research
network Tensions of Europe, grant for younger researchers, 2006
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Svenska presshistoriska föreningens stipendium, research grant,
2006
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Wahlgrenska stiftelsen, research grant, 2006
Merits in research leadership & organisation
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One of three
responsible writers of the Research strategy of Mid Sweden University for
2012–2016, sent to the Swedish Government in December 2011.
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Head writer
for the Mid Sweden University application to the Knowledge Foundation for
becoming a selected 10 year research partner ("KK-miljö").
Application was granted in December 2011, with two research areas of the
university included in the partnership, and an option to qualify two more for
eligibility of the funding. Expected total value over 10 years around 250 Msek.
·
Head writer
for three Mid Sweden University applications to the Swedish National Agency of
Higher Education for the right to confer Teacher Education (2011). All three
applications were granted.
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Wrote
framework for proposal for book series on the Nordic Region, consisting of five
volumes with ca 60 contributions, organised submission of book proposals. After
peer-review by 10 anonymous reviewers, the book series The
Nordic Experience was accepted in 2011 for publication by Ashgate Publishing,
UK.
·
Within the
Nordic Spaces research programme organised multiple meetings with the Steering
committee and the Publication committee (8-10 participants at each meeting) in
locations such as Tartu (Estonia) Torshavn (Faroe Islands) Helsinki and
Stockholm, including arranging practicalities, setting agendas and organising
social programmes.
Organiser of
conferences and workshops
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Nordic
Spaces and Beyond. Final
conference of the Nordic Spaces research programme, with around 60 participants
from Europe and the US. Responsible for scientific agenda, booking keynote
speakers as well as arranging practicalities and social programmes, 2012
·
Samhällsvetenskapernas nytta och det kritiska
uppdraget: National conference of
the Swedish deans in the Social sciences,
Faculty of the Human sciences, Östersund 2011. Tasks: setting agenda and
recruiting national and international speakers, presentation, moderator for
joint discussions
·
Communicating the North. Book workshops, Södertörn University, Stockholm, March and October, 2011
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Anti-Catholicism in comparative and transnational
perspective, Workshop in Rome, 2010,
co-organised with prof. Yvonne Maria Werner, Lund
·
Public Opinion, Press and Politics, 1750–2000. International workshop, Santander, 2010, co-organised
with Prof. Gonzalo de Capellan, University of Cantabria
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Humaniora och världen. National conference of the Swedish deans in the Humanities, Faculty of
the Human sciences, Östersund, 2010. Task: setting agenda and recruiting
national and international speakers, presenter, moderator for joint
discussions.
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The media system of the 19th century. Book workshops, at Linköping University, Norrköping ,
2008, and at KTH Royal School of Technology, Stockholm, 2009, Co-organised with
doc. Patrik Lundell, Linköping/ Lund University
Publications
Book series editor
Harvard
Jonas (series ed.), The Nordic Experience (Aldershot:
Ashgate Publishing, 2012–2014) [Peer-reviewed]
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Volume 1: Eds Peter
Aronsson & Lizette Gradén, Performing
Nordic Heritage, 2012.
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Volume
2: Ed. Sverker Sörlin, Science, Geopolitics
and Culture in the Polar Region, 2013, in press
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Volume 3: Eds Jonas
Harvard & Peter Stadius, Communicating
the North, 2013, in press
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Volume 4: Eds Karen Vedel & Petri Hoppu, Nordic Dance Spaces, forthcoming 2014
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Volume 5: Ed. Nicholas Aylott, Models
of Democracy in Nordic and Baltic Europe, forthcoming 2014
A.
Scientific books (monographs, edited volumes & edited special issues)
1. Harvard Jonas
& Yvonne Maria Werner (eds), Anti-Catholicism
in Comparative and Transnational Perspective, 1750-2000, European Studies – An
Interdisciplinary Series in European Culture, History and Politics
(Amsterdam: Rodopi 2013, In press), 201pp
2. Harvard Jonas &
Peter Stadius (eds), Communicating the North: Media Structures and Images in the Making
of the Nordic Region (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2013, In press)
3.
Harvard Jonas &
Frank Schipper (eds) Special issue: 'Asymmetries
of technological globalization: The electric telegraph', Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte
und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 21 (2011) 6. [2012],
156 pp
4. Harvard Jonas, Staffan
Förhammar & Dag Lindström (eds), Dolt i
offentligheten: Nya perspektiv på traditionellt källmaterial (Lund:
Sekel, 2011), 202 pp, [Reviewed by Vetenskapsrådet for publication support]
5. Harvard Jonas, Jenny
Björkman & Björn Fjaestad (eds), Ett nordiskt rum. Historiska och framtida gemenskaper från Baltikum
till Barents hav (Lund: Makadam/Riksbankens jubileumsfond, 2011), 191
pp
6. Harvard Jonas, &
Lundell, Patrik (eds), 1800-talets
mediesystem (Stockholm, Kungl. biblioteket, Mediehistoriskt arkiv,
2010), 247 pp, [Reviewed by publication committee at Royal Library, Stockholm] Download
full text
7. Harvard Jonas, En helig
allmännelig opinion, Föreställningar om offentlighet och legitimitet i svensk
riksdagsdebatt 1848 – 1919 [The Holy Public Opinion: Concepts of Publicity and
Legitimacy in Swedish Parliamentary Debates, 1848–1919], Umeå
University, Department of Historical Studies, 2006 [Dissertation]
B.
Scientific articles & book chapters (*= peer reviewed journal/ publisher)
1. * Harvard Jonas, ’Expert views or mass opinion? Newspaper enquêtes in
the Swedish press 1900–1920’, in Rickard Danell, Anna Larsson & Per
Wisselgren
(eds) Social Science in Context:
Historical, Sociological, and Global Perspectives, Nordic Academic Press,
2013, forthcoming
2. * Harvard Jonas, ‘Catholicism and the
Emergence of a “Swedish” Ideal of Public Legitimacy’, in Harvard Jonas &
Yvonne Maria Werner (eds), Anti-Catholicism
in a Comparative and Transnational Perspective, 1750-2000, European Studies – An
Interdisciplinary Series in European Culture, History and Politics (Amsterdam:
Rodopi 2013, In press)
3. Harvard
Jonas & Yvonne Maria Werner, 'European Anti-Catholicism in Comparative and Transnational
Perspective: The Role of a Unifying Other: an Introduction', in
Harvard Jonas & Yvonne Maria Werner (eds), Anti-Catholicism in a Comparative and Transnational Perspective,
1750-2000, European Studies – An Interdisciplinary Series in
European Culture, History and Politics (Amsterdam: Rodopi 2013, In press)
4. * Harvard Jonas &
Peter Stadius, ’Conclusion: Mediating the Nordic Brand – History Recycled', in Harvard Jonas &
Peter Stadius (eds), Communicating the
North: Media Structures and Images in the Making of the Nordic Region (Aldershot:
Ashgate Publishing, 2013, In press)
5. * Harvard Jonas &
Peter Stadius, 'A Communicative Perspective on the Formation of the
North: Contexts, Concepts and Channels', in Harvard Jonas & Peter Stadius (eds), Communicating the North: Media Structures
and Images in the Making of the Nordic Region (Aldershot: Ashgate
Publishing, 2013, In press)
6. * Harvard Jonas &
Magdalena Hillström, 'The Media Strategies of the Scandinavianism Movement', in
Harvard Jonas & Peter Stadius (eds) Communicating
the North: Media Structures and Images in the Making of the Nordic Region (Aldershot:
Ashgate Publishing, 2013, In press)
7.
*
Harvard Jonas, 'Connecting
the North: The Electric Telegraph and the European News Market', in Harvard Jonas &
Peter Stadius (eds) Communicating the
North: Media Structures and Images in the Making of the Nordic Region (Aldershot:
Ashgate Publishing, 2013, In press)
8. * Harvard Jonas,
"Northern Experiences of Global Telegraphy", in
Hampf Michaela & Simone Müller-Pohl (eds) Global
Communication Electric: Social, Cultural, and Political Aspects of
Telegraphy (Frankfurt: Campus verlag, 2013, In press)
9.
*
Harvard Jonas, 'Through snow and thunder: Operating the telegraph
in Northern Europe', in Fickers Andreas & Pascal Griset, Eventing Europe:
Electronic Information and Communication Spaces in Europe (1850-2000)
(Basingstoke: Palgrave, forthcoming 2013–2014) [Accepted for publication]
10. * Harvard Jonas, 'Telegrams by steamer, mail and horseback: Communication infrastructure
in the 19th century ', in Fickers Andreas & Pascal Griset (2012). Eventing
Europe: Electronic Information and Communication Spaces in Europe (1850-2000)
(Basingstoke: Palgrave, forthcoming 2013–2014) [Accepted for publication]
11. * Harvard Jonas & Frank Schipper 'Asymmetries of technological
globalization: The electric telegraph', Comparativ.
Zeitschrift für
Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 21 (2011) 6. [2012] [Peer reviewed]
12. * Harvard Jonas, 'Annihilation of time and space or increased asymmetry? The usage of the
electric telegraph by two Swedish regional newspapers, 1850–1870', Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte
und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 21 (2011) 6. [2012] [Peer reviewed]
13. Harvard Jonas: 'Det nya
Norden – hårt eller mjukt?', in Harvard Jonas, Jenny Björkman & Björn
Fjaestad (eds) Ett nordiskt rum. Historiska och framtida gemenskaper
från Baltikum till Barents hav (Lund: Makadam/Riksbankens jubileumsfond,
2011), 11–26, 16pp
14. Harvard Jonas:
'Historikerna och den osynliga offentligheten', in Harvard Jonas, Staffan Förhammar
& Dag Lindström (eds), Dolt i
offentligheten: Nya perspektiv på traditionellt källmaterial (Lund: Sekel,
2011), 9–18, 10pp
15. Harvard Jonas:
'Riksdagsprotokollen som medium', in Harvard Jonas, Staffan Förhammar & Dag
Lindström (eds), Dolt i offentligheten:
Nya perspektiv på traditionellt källmaterial (Lund: Sekel, 2011), 25–46,
22pp
16. Harvard Jonas &
Torbjörn Nilsson: 'Det offentligas tryck: Källorna som styrt svensk
historieforskning', in Harvard Jonas, Staffan Förhammar & Dag Lindström
(eds), Dolt i offentligheten: Nya
perspektiv på traditionellt källmaterial (Lund: Sekel, 2011)
17. Harvard Jonas,
‛Nya medier, gamla transporter: Hästar, tåg och ångbåtar i den elektriska
telegrafens tjänst‛, in Harvard Jonas & Patrik Lundell (eds) 1800-talets mediesystem (Stockholm:
Kungl. biblioteket, Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2010)
18. Harvard Jonas, &
Patrik Lundell (2010) ‛1800-talets medier: System, landskap,
nätverk‛, in Harvard Jonas & Patrik Lundell (eds) 1800-talets mediesystem (Stockholm:
Kungl. biblioteket, Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2010)
19. Harvard Jonas
‛Representationsreformen och opinionsstormen: Att mobilisera
mediesystemet‛, in Harvard Jonas & Patrik Lundell (eds) 1800-talets mediesystem (Stockholm:
Kungl. biblioteket, Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2010)
20. * Harvard Jonas, 'Dagens opinion, tidens anda. Temporala aspekter av
”allmänna opinionen” 1850–1870', Folkmålsstudier
(Finland), nr 47 (2009) [Peer reviewed]
21. Harvard Jonas, 'En högst
sakkunnig opinion. Användningen av "enquèter"' i svensk dagspress,
1900-1920, Presshistorisk årsbok,
2008.
22. Harvard Jonas,
'Modernitetens depescher? Telegrafen och den norrländska pressens
tidshorisonter 1850–1870', Presshistorisk
årsbok, 2007.
C.
Publications intended for professional communities
1.
Harvard Jonas, The Northern Dimension Beyond Environmental
Cooperation, Baltic Worlds, December 2011. Vol
IV :4. Published online at http://balticworlds.com/beyond-environmental-cooperation/
2.
Harvard
Jonas (2007) 'Karl Starbäck'.
Article in Svenskt Biografiskt
Lexikon, Häfte 161, 2007.
D. Conference
papers
1.
Harvard Jonas, 'Parliamentary Speaking and Media Narratives on the Falklands War: The
Concept of "world opinion"', Parliamentary
Means of Conflict Resolution in a Comparative Perspective, Freiburg
Institute for Advanced Studies, March 16–17, 2012.
2. Harvard Jonas,
'Nordic Spaces: Defining the Area of Research', Annual Meeting of The Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study,
Chicago, April 28–30, 2011
4.
Harvard Jonas, 'Public opinion as an agent of change: Sweden
1850–1920', Public Opinion, Politics and
Press in Europe (1789–1914), Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, November
25–27, 2010
5. Harvard Jonas, 'And the Press says?
Media References in British Parliamentary Discourse', Finnish Conference for Historical Research, University of
Jyväskylä, October 21–23, 2010
6.
Harvard Jonas, 'Catholicism and the
emergence of a ”Swedish” ideal of public legitimacy', Workshop Anti-Catholicism in a Comparative and Transnational Perspective,
1750–2000, Rome, October
6–10, 2010
7.
Harvard
Jonas, 'A present without borders: Electric communication in the Nordic region,
1850-1870', Workshop, Var och hur finns
Norden, Voksenåsen, Oslo, January 27–29, 2010
8.
Harvard Jonas, 'Parliamentary Opinion and the Public, 12th annual conference on
the History of Concepts: New Directions in the history of concepts, London and Oxford, September 17–19, 2009
10.
Harvard Jonas, 'Asking the ones who know: Qualitative
polling in Sweden around 1900', Perspectives
from the periphery, International conference on the history of sociology and
the social sciences, Umeå, August 21–24, 2008.
11.
Harvard Jonas, 'Communication artefacts? Context and
content in the history of the electric telegraph', Teknikhistoriska dagarna, Tekniska muséet, Stockholm, April 8–10, 2008.
12. Harvard Jonas, 'Telegrafen och artonhundratalets mediesystem', Svenska historikermötet, Lund, April 24–26, 2008
13.
Harvard Jonas, 'News heading north: The telegraph and
the temporal representation of ‘Europe’ in the newspapers of northern
Scandinavia 1850–1870', Tensions of
Europe, Rotterdam, June
7–10, 2007
14.
Harvard Jonas, 'El uso del
concepto opinión publica en el parlamento sueco 1850-1920', Meeting of the Análisis de Conceptos Políticos y Sociales group, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, July 10–12, 2007
15.
Harvard Jonas, 'Opinion of the day, spirit of the
times: Temporal aspects of the concept "public opinion"', History in the language – language in
history, Jyväskylä, 15–17
June 2007
16.
Harvard Jonas, 'Public opinion – a religious concept? On the
secularization of political legitimacy', Crossroads: Writing Conceptual History beyond the Nation-State, the 9th
Annual International Conference of the History of Political and Social Concepts
Group. Uppsala, August 24-26, 2006.