Sverker Sörlin

Sverker Sörlin
Sörlin 2010
Born	6 August 1956 (1956-08-06) (age 60)
Occupation	Swedish academic

Sverker Sörlin, born 6 August 1956 in Åsele, Västerbotten, is a Swedish historian of ideas, professor in environmental history, and writer.^[1]

Biography

Sörlin has a PhD in the history of ideas from Umeå University from 1988. In 1993 he assumed the first chair in environmental history in Scandinavia, also at Umeå University. Since 2007 he is professor of environmental history at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm.^[2] He's had an adjunct position at the Stockholm Resilience Centre (2005–2012),^[3] and visiting positions at University of California Berkeley (1993), University of Cambridge (2004–2005), University of Oslo (2006), University of Cape Town (2012–2013), and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University (2013–2014).^[4] In 2011 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by University of Turku, Finland.

Sörlin was Associate Director for the Center for History of Science in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1988–1990, and the founding director of the Swedish Institute for Studies in Education and Research, SISTER (2000–2003). 2006–2009 he chaired the Swedish committee for the International Polar Year. 1994–1998 and 2005–2009 he served on the Swedish Government's Research Advisory Board, and he is currently on the Government's Environmental Research board.

Sörlin has published in the fields of history of science, environmental history, the history of forestry, human ecology, environmental humanities, European history, research policy, innovations studies, and the history and politics of higher education. He frequently appears in Swedish media, and also writes popular science and narrative non-fiction. He has received several awards, including Augustpriset (2004) and the Lars Salvius award (2012).^[5]

Selected books (in English)

Denationalizing Science: The Contexts of International Scientific Practice, with Elisabeth Crawford & Terry Shinn (1993)
Sustainability – the Challenge: People, Power, and the Environment, with L. Anders Sandberg (1998)
Narrating the Arctic: A Cultural History of Nordic Scientific Practices, with Michael T. Bravo (2002)
Knowledge Society vs. Knowledge Economy, with Hebe Vessuri (2007)
Nature’s End: Environment and History, with Paul Warde (2009)
Science, Geopolitics and Culture in the Polar Region - Norden Beyond Borders (2013)
The Future of Nature: Documents of Global Change, with Libby Robin och Paul Warde (2013)

References

August Prize for Best Non-Fiction

1990s	1992: Gyllene äpplen – Gunnar Broberg et al. 1993: Ofredsår – Peter Englund 1994: Musiken i Sverige I–IV – Leif Jonsson et al. 1995: Tusen år i trädgården. Från sörmländska herrgårdar och bakgårdar – Maria Flinck 1996: Spåren av kungens män – Maja Hagerman 1997: I skuggan av framtiden – Sven-Eric Liedman 1998: Svenska vägar till S:t Petersburg – Bengt Jangfeldt 1999: Engelska – öspråk, världsspråk, trendspråk – Jan Svartvik

2000s	2000: Stora döden – Dick Harrison 2001: Minnets stigar – Hans Hammarskjöld, Anita Theorell & Per Wästberg 2002: Gustav Vasa – landsfader eller tyrann? – Lars-Olof Larsson 2003: Idéer om livet – Nils Uddenberg 2004: Europas idéhistoria 1492–1918: Världens ordning och Mörkret i människan – Sverker Sörlin 2005: Ninas resa – Lena Einhorn 2006: Qin – Cecilia Lindqvist 2007: Med livet som insats – Bengt Jangfeldt 2008: Regi Bergman – Paul Duncan & Bengt Wanselius 2009: Att överleva dagen – Brutus Östling & Susanne Åkesson

2010s	2010: Den röda grevinnan – Yvonne Hirdman 2011: Och i Wienerwald står träden kvar – Elisabeth Åsbrink 2012: Det står ett rum här och väntar på dig – Berättelsen om Raoul Wallenberg – Ingrid Carlberg 2013: The Expedition: The Forgotten Story of a Polar Tragedy – Bea Uusma 2014: Naturlära – Lars Lerin 2015: Min europeiska familj. De senaste 54 000 åren – Karin Bojs

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 31156498 SUDOC: 057054061 BNF: cb12967278d (data)

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