News from the SCAS Community

Kieron Barclay; Eric Cullhed; Lisa Hellman; David Motadel; Fanny Wonu Veys; Maria Ågren
In the News from the SCAS Community section you find updates on funding, prizes, new positions, membership in academies and many other things.

Kieron Barclay has received an RJ Project grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond amounting to SEK 3,343,812 for the project The impact of health in early adulthood on family formation and dissolution processes External link, opens in new window..
Barclay is Associate Professor of Sociology at Stockholm University, and currently a SCAS Pro Futura Scientia Fellow. He was in residence in the academic year 2020-21.

Eric Cullhed has received RJ Sabbatical funding totalling SEK 1,301,522 from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for his project Weeping External link, opens in new window..
Cullhed is Professor of Greek at Uppsala University and a former Pro Futura Scientia Fellow. He was in residence at the Collegium in the academic year 2019-20 and in the spring of 2023.

Lisa Hellman has received funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for her project Global diplomati: Nytt fokus för internationella relationer 1400-1850 External link, opens in new window.. The grant amounts to SEK 6,651,236 and is an RJ Project grant.
Hellman is Professor of Global History at Lund University. She is a current Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, who was in residence at SCAS in the academic year 2022-23.

A piece titled Are we at a turning point in world history? External link, opens in new window. written by David Motadel appeared in The Guardian on 28 January 2025.
Motadel is Associate Professor of International History at the LSE. He was a Fellow at the Collegium in the academic year 2022-23.

Fanny Wonu Veys has been appointed Professor of Art and Material Culture of Oceania at Leiden University External link, opens in new window..
Veys was a Barbro Klein Fellow in residence at the Collegium in the spring of 2022.

As of 1 January 2025, Maria Ågren External link, opens in new window. is Permanent Secretary of The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.
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Ågren is Professor of History at Uppsala University. She was a Fellow at SCAS in the spring of 2016.