Sari Nauman
Visiting Fellow
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 the RSC, Nauman will develop conceptual tools for refugee history in the project ‘”Refugee” and “IDP”: Challenging Concepts in Refugee History’. The results will feed into her book project on early modern IDPs. Her previous publications include the award-winning monograph Ordens kraft: Politiska eder i Sverige, 1520–1718 [The Force of Words: Political Oaths in Sweden, 1520–1718] (Nordic Academic Press 2017), as well as multiple edited volumes, articles and chapters in a wide range of publications.