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Recent Publications

Publications by Fellows of the SCAS community appear regularly. Some have been started, worked on, or completed by Fellows during their residency at the Collegium (marked as *SCAS publ. below), while others have no specific connection to the Collegium, but are the result of hard work by current or former Fellows. Below you can find some of the recent books that are available (published in 2024–26). As of 2025, also articles/book chapters are included below. The Fellows are listed in alphabetical order.



2026

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"Visualising the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’: China’s Transport Future Reflected Through Its History" External link.

Christiaan De Beukelaer & Jan Baetens
(in Maritime Studies, vol. 25:9, 2026)

Global Horizons Senior Fellow, 2024-25
*SCAS publ.

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Cultural History and the Anthropocene: Old Turns, New Encounters External link.

Anders Ekström et al. (eds.)
(Bloomsbury, 2026)

Global Horizons Senior Fellow, 2025-26
*SCAS publ.

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Habsburg Natures: Imperial Governance and Environment in Central Europe, 1850-1918 External link, opens in new window.

Iva Lučić & Jawad Daheur (eds.)
(Berghahn Books 2026)

Pro Futura Scientia Fellow
In residence: 2023-24
*SCAS publ.

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"In the Shadows of the New Space Economy" External link.

Chakad Ojani
(in Current History, vol. 125:867, 2026)

Pro Futura Scientia Fellow
In residence: Spring 2026

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"Feelings and the Roman House: A Sentiment Analysis of Pompeian Graffiti" External link, opens in new window.

Samuli Simelius & Liisa Jalkanen
(in Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Elsevier, Vol. 40, March 2026)

SCAS-Nordic Fellow, 2025-26

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"For a Fearless, Stirring, and Loving Climate Pessimism" External link, opens in new window. External link.

Mathias Thaler
(in Current History, vol. 125:867, 2026)

Fellow, Autumn 2024

2025

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"Ninety Percent of Everything? Recalibrating the Environmental Impact of Shipping, between ‘Too Big to Fail' and ‘Too Small to Matter'" External link, opens in new window.

Christiaan De Beukelaer and Philip E. Steinberg
(in Global Sustainability, vol. 8, 2025)

Global Horizons Senior Fellow, 2024-25
*SCAS publ.

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"What is the Role of Creative Industries in the Anthropocene? An Argument for Planetary Cultural Policy" External link, opens in new window.

Christiaan De Beukelaer (with Miikka Pyykkönen)
(in Poetics, Vol. 109, forthcoming 2025)

Global Horizons Senior Fellow, 2024-25

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Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750-1820 External link, opens in new window.

Bruce Buchan and Linda Andersson Burnett (Yale University Press, 2025)

Fellow, Spring 2024
*SCAS publ.

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Before Banks: The Making of Credit and Debt in Preindustrial France External link, opens in new window.

Elise M. Dermineur
(Cambridge University Press, 2025)

Former Pro Futura Scientia Fellow.
In residence: 2015-16 & Spring 2017

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Tidens återkomst: Pompeji, Johnstown, Fukushima External link, opens in new window.

Anders Ekström
(Ellerströms förlag, 2025)

Fellow, Spring 1999; Associated Researcher/Research Director, Spring 2025

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Race, Genetics, History: New Practices, New Approaches External link, opens in new window.

Jerome de Groot et al.
(Cambridge University Press, 2025)

Fellow, Autumn 2023
*SCAS publ.

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Bliss Mountain External link, opens in new window.

Aashish Kaul

(Finishing Line Press, forthcoming 2025)

Short-term Researcher, Spring 2022
*SCAS publ.

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Indo-European Afterlives: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Life beyond Death External link, opens in new window.

Jenny H. Larsson, Thomas Olander and
Anders Richardt Jørgensen (eds.)
(Stockholm University Press, 2025)

Fellow, Autumn 2018

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Indo-European Ecologies: Cattle and Milk – Snakes and Water External link, opens in new window.

Jenny Larsson (with Thomas Olander and Anders Richardt Jørgensen, eds.)
(Stockholm University Press, 2025)

Fellow, Autumn 2018

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Customary Nationalism in Crisis Protest, Identity and Politics in eSwatini External link, opens in new window.

Vito Laterza and Casey Golomski (eds.) (Routledge, 2025)

SCAS-Nordic Fellow, 2024-25
*SCAS publ.

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"In Situ Imaging and Microbiome Analysis of Calculus-like Deposits at the Root Apex: A Case Report of Refractory Apical Periodontitis" External link, opens in new window.

Natuschka Lee et al
(in International Endodontic Journal, vol. 58:9, 2025)

Natural Sciences Fellow, 2023-24
*SCAS publ.

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"Mars in Short: Past and Present Geology and Climate" External link, opens in new window. (and six further chapters)

Natuschka Lee et al.
(in Mars and the Earthlings: A Realistic View on Mars Exploration and Settlement, eds. Cyprien Verseux et al., Springer Nature, 2025)

Natural Sciences Fellow, 2023-24
*SCAS publ.

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"Situating Bjørn Lomborg in the History of Climate Politics: The Turn from Markets to Planning in Promethean Discourse" External link, opens in new window.

Niklas Olsen and Rasmus Skov Andersen (in Modern Intellectual History, 2025)

SCAS-Nordic Fellow, Autumn 2025

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"The “Biomolecular Humanities”? New Challenges and Perspectives" External link, opens in new window.

Ester Oras and Jerome de Groot et al.
(in IScience, vol. 28:2, 2025)

Pro Futura Scientia Fellow (Oras)
In residence: 2023-24

Fellow, Autumn 2023 (de Groot)
*SCAS publ.

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"Remote Sensing of American Revolutionary War Fortification at Butts Hill (Portsmouth, Rhode Island)" External link, opens in new window.

Hugo Reyes-Centeno et al. (in Heritage 8(10), 430, 2025)

Human Past Senior Fellow, Autumn 2025
*SCAS publ.

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"Precision Assessment of Facial Asymmetry Using 3D Imaging and Artificial Intelligence" External link, opens in new window.

Hugo Reyes-Centeno et al. (in Journal of Clinical Medicine, 14(20), 7172, 2025)

Human Past Senior Fellow, Autumn 2025
*SCAS publ.

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"Ambivalent Republican and Roman Models for Washington D.C." External link, opens in new window.

Samuli Simelius
(in Planning Perspectives, 2025)

SCAS-Nordic Fellow, 2025-26

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"Predicting Fitness-Related Traits Using Gene Expression and Machine Learning" External link, opens in new window.

John Stinchcombe et al
(in Genome Biology and Evolution, Vol. 17, Issue 2, 2025)

Natural Sciences Fellow, Autumn 2023
*SCAS publ.

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"Measuring Natural Selection on the Transcriptome" External link, opens in new window.

John Stinchcombe and John K Kelly (in New Phytologist, 2025)

Natural Sciences Fellow, Autumn 2023
*SCAS publ.

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Humane Infrastructures External link, opens in new window.

Patrik Svensson
(The MIT Press, 2025)

Fellow, Spring 2022
*SCAS publ.

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Linnés herbarium: växtarkens dolda historia External link, opens in new window.

Sverker Sörlin & Lena Granefelt
(Arena, 2025)

Non-resident Long-term Fellow
In residence: 2022-23

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How Russia Got Big: A Territorial History External link, opens in new window.

Paul W. Werth (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025)

Fellow, Spring 2024
*SCAS publ.

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Den undflyende ormen: kampen mot drakar, kaos och undergång från Bibeln till vår tid External link, opens in new window.

Ola Wikander
(Nirstedt/litteratur, 2025)

Pro Futura Scientia Fellow
In residence: 2018-19

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Gender, Work, and the Transition to Modernity in Northwestern Europe, 1720–1880 External link, opens in new window.

Maria Ågren (ed.)
(Oxford Academic/Oxford University Press, 2025)

Fellow, Spring 2016

2024

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Sites of Statelessness: Laws, Cities, Seas External link, opens in new window.

Ayşe Çağlar (with Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury and Ranabir Samaddar, eds.)
(SUNY Press, 2024)

Fellow, 2024-25

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Europa i dag: Likheter och skillnader mellan länderna på vår kontinent External link, opens in new window.

Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist
(Dialogos Förlag, 2024)

Former Pro Futura Scientia Fellow
In residence: 2019-20

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Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan External link, opens in new window.

Ruby Lal
(Yale University Press, 2024)

Fellow, 2020-21
*SCAS publ.

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Indo-European Interfaces: Integrating Linguistics, Mythology and Archaeology External link, opens in new window.

Jenny Larsson (with Thomas Olander and Anders Richardt Jørgensen, eds.)
(Stockholm University Press, 2024)

Fellow, Autumn 2018.

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Writing a Political Life: On the Challenging Relationship Between Biography
and History


Fredrik Logevall
(Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, 2024)

Fellow, Autumn 2022
*SCAS publ./The Wittrock Lecture Book Series, no. 5

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Future Needs Wisdom. An Intellectual Memoir External link, opens in new window.

Helga Nowotny
(The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2024)

Member, SCAS Academic Senate

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The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction External link, opens in new window.

Gísli Pálsson
(Princeton University Press, 2024)

Fellow, Autumn 1995 & Spring 2023

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Audit Culture: How Indicators and Rankings are Reshaping the World

Cris Shore (with Susan Wright)
(Pluto Press, 2024)

Global Horizons Senior Fellow, 2021-22
*SCAS publ.

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"Genetic Architecture of Heritable Leaf Microbes" External link, opens in new window. External link, opens in new window.

John Stinchcombe et al.
(in Microbiology Spectrum, Vol. 12, No. 7, 2024)

Natural Sciences Fellow, Autumn 2023
*SCAS publ.

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Snö – En historia External link, opens in new window.

Sverker Sörlin
(Volante, 2024)

Non-resident Long-term Fellow
In residence: 2022-23

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Chronicles of a Global City: Speculative Lives and Unsettled Futures in Bengaluru External link, opens in new window.

Carol Upadhya (with Vinay Gidwani and Michael Goldman, eds.)
(University of Minnesota Press, 2024)

Fellow, Spring 2023
*SCAS publ.

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Emblems in the Free Imperial City: Emblems, Empire, and Identity in Early Modern Nürnberg External link, opens in new window.

Mara R. Wade (with Christopher D. Fletcher and Andrew C. Schwenk, eds.)
(Brill, 2024)

Fellow, Spring 2023

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My Father's Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century External link, opens in new window.

Alisse Waterston
(Routledge, 2024)

Non-resident Long-term Fellow
In residence: Spring 2022 & Spring 2025

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Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka External link, opens in new window.

Karolina Watroba

(Profile Books, 2024)

Fellow, 2024-25

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Zainab’s Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others across Borders External link, opens in new window.

Emrah Yıldız

(University of California Press, 2024)

Global Horizons Junior Fellow, 2024-25

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The History of Knowledge External link, opens in new window.

Johan Östling
(with David Larsson Heidenblad)
(Cambridge University Press, 2024)

Former Pro Futura Scientia Fellow
In residence: Spring 2013 & Autumn 2014

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Kunskapens stora hus : huvudlinjer i universitetets historia External link, opens in new window.

Johan Östling

(Makadam förlag, 2024)

Former Pro Futura Scientia Fellow
In residence: Spring 2013 & Autumn 2014