Sari Nauman

Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS.
Associate Professor of History, University of Gothenburg

Sari Nauman is an early modern historian with a background in political science and philosophy.  
Nauman completed her Ph.D. in 2017 at the University of Gothenburg, where she was promoted to
Docent (Associate Professor) in 2021. In between, she held research positions at the Centre for
Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen, the University of Gothenburg, and Södertörn Uni-
versity. She is the recipient of several rewards, including the Birger Karlsson Science Award in 2023
and the Clio Award in 2018.

Nauman’s work is characterized by its transdisciplinary approach, combining historical sources with
social science theories, often from a transhistorical perspective. Her research explores concepts such
as trust, security, and hospitality to understand how communities and individuals managed situations
of intense uncertainty. Her 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 Aca-
demic Press 2017), the edited volumes Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century:
Receiving Strangers in Northeastern Europe (Palgrave 2022, co-edited with Wojtek Jezierski, Christina
Reimann, Leif Runefelt), and Private/Public in 18th-Century Scandinavia (Bloomsbury 2021, co-edited
with Helle Vogt), as well as multiple articles and chapters in a wide range of publications.

As Pro Futura Fellow, Nauman will critically assess available analytical frameworks for translating early
modern refugeedom into present-day understanding in her project 'Outsiders Within: Internally Displaced
Persons in Early Modern Europe'. Additionally, her work benefits from her role as PI of ‘Humanitarian
Great Power? The Local Reception of Refugees in Sweden, 1700–1730,’ funded by the Swedish Research
Council.

Sari Nauman is in residence at the Collegium in the academic year 2024-25.
This information is accurate as of the academic year 2024-25.