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SCAS News - 16 June, 2022 (Update: 30 June, 2022)

SCAS Presents the Pro Futura Scientia XVII Fellows

Today, the Swedish Collegium is delighted to introduce the new generation of promising
scholars who have been awarded the prestigious Pro Futura Scientia Fellowships.

The Pro Futura Scientia programme is a cutting-edge research programme in the humanities
and social sciences that offers talented early-career scholars optimal research conditions and
the chance to pursue curiosity-driven research during a five-year period. Admittance to the
programme is based upon nominations, and in the course of the programme scholars are
offered a tenured position at the nominating university.

Founded in 1999 by the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) and Riksbankens
Jubileumsfond (RJ), the programme has now reached its seventeenth round of admittance.

Those who have been appointed Pro Futura Scientia XVII Fellows are:
(listed in alphabetical order)

Eugene Costello, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University
(nominated by Stockholm University)
Academic discipline/field of study: Landscape Archaeology; Environmental History
Pro Futura research project: ‘Sunny Uplands’? The Origins and Impacts of Commercial
Livestock Husbandry in Europe’s Mountains

David Karlander, FRIAS, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, and School of English,
University of Hong Kong (nominated by the Department of Scandinavian Languages,
Uppsala University)
Academic discipline/field of study: Nordic and General Linguistics
Pro Futura research project: Making Languages, Making Linguistics: Invented Languages as
Topics and Tools in Twentieth-Century Language Sciences

Iva Lučić, Department of Education, Uppsala University (nominated by the Department of
History, Stockholm University)
Academic discipline/field of study: History
Pro Futura research project: Extracting Nature. Making Peripheries. Global Perspectives on
the Balkans as Extractive Periphery, 1870-1990

Sari Nauman, Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg (nominated by
University of Gothenburg)
Academic discipline/field of study: History; Refugee Studies
Pro Futura research project: Outsiders Within: Internally Displaced Persons in Early Modern
Europe

Julia Velkova, Department of Thematic Studies – Technology and Social Change, Linköping
University (nominated by Linköping University)
Academic discipline/field of study: Media and Communication Studies
Pro Futura research project: When Communication Networks Come to Die: Socio-Cultural
Perspectives on Infrastructural Dismantling

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ABOUT THE PROGRAMME:
The Pro Futura Scientia programme was initiated in 1999 by the Swedish Collegium for Advanced
Study (SCAS) and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ). Thanks to the carefully designed structure of
the programme, talented scholars are given optimal scope for developing as researchers, over several
years and in stimulating environments, and it has thus proved to be an attractive career path.

The programme attracts promising young scholars not only from Sweden, but also from abroad. An
increasing number of researchers from the international arena enter the Swedish university and
research system this way. The important role that the programme has come to play in the Swedish
academic system over the years is shown through the large number of current or former Pro Futura
researchers that have taken up distinguished professorships, and/or have been elected members of
scholarly academies and societies and joined research councils and key bodies at universities.

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