Historical Studies contributes with knowledge about worldviews, traditions, creative processes, and ideologies in a broad, historical perspective. Perspectives and methods are primarily inspired by cultural history, text analysis, and image analysis, but our research also encompasses political, economic, technological and social changes and processes in human history, the present and the future.
The researchers come from various disciplines, mainly those subjects that constitute the Division of History, Arts, and Religious Studies, but subject didactics and education research is also represented in our environment.
We meet regularly at the joint Higher Seminar for Historical Studies, where ample space is provided for our doctoral students in the history programme, but also senior scholars, to present thesis chapters, drafts, or articles. Within the research environment there are also specialised seminars, run by existing research networks or ongoing collaborative projects.
Our research expertise covers fields such as medieval and early modern history; cultural and emotional history; church and religious history; art and architectural history; modern history; media and communication history; history of science and medicine; and history didactics and history of education. The research environment also houses the Centre for Local History.
We collaborate with the National Graduate School of Historical Studies and locally with Tema Q, Tema Barn, Didaktik i samhällsämnena (DISA) and other environments at IKOS and LiU. Our environment is supported by the Tranås Säteri Foundation and the Catharina Högbom and Michael Cocozza Foundation for research and cultural purposes in Linköping municipality.
