SCAS News - 11 December, 2014
Former SCAS Fellow Marie-Christine Skuncke has been Awarded the Torgny Segerstedt Medal
Former SCAS Fellow Marie-Christine Skuncke has been named the recipient of this year's Torgny Segerstedt
Medal by Uppsala University.The medal, which was awarded for the first time in 1988, was instituted in honour
of Torgny Segerstedt, former Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University. It is awarded every two years to
‘Swedish scholars for especially meritorious work in the arts and social sciences.’ The medal will be presented
to Marie-Christine Skuncke at the Winter Conferment Ceremony on 30 January, 2015.
Marie-Christine Skuncke is Professor of Literature at Uppsala University and has had a long and close
affiliation
with SCAS. Not only has she been a regular Fellow at the Collegium, but she was also a Non-resident Long-term
Fellow for
Programmes
in
Eighteenth-Century Studies and Cultural and Literary History during many years. Her
most recent book, Carl Peter
Thunberg, Botanist and Physician: Career-Building across
the Oceans in the
Eighteenth Century (2014) was to a
large extent written while Skuncke was in residence at the Collegium. It was
the first book ever to be published by
the Swedish Collegium
for Advanced Study. Marie-Christine Skuncke has
previously published extensively on
eighteenth-century Sweden in a
European
perspective, with a
particular focus
on theatre and
opera, the education
of Gustav III, political rhetoric, and
media
history. Her
research on Thunberg
turned her attention to
relations
with Asia and Africa.
