We are thrilled that Christa Lundberg (University of Cambridge) has been appointed Pro Futura Scientia Fellow and will be joining the Department of History and be part of LUCK. Congratulations, Christa!

Christa Lundberg describes herself and her research in this way:

I hold a PhD in history from the University of Cambridge (2022) and specialize in the history of books, universities, and knowledge in early modern Europe. My academic journey has taken me through Gothenburg, Lyon, London, and Los Angeles before I arrived in Cambridge in 2017. I am delighted that the next move takes me to Lund, where I will join the Department of History as a Pro Futura fellow later this year. I look forward to becoming part of the department’s dynamic community of early modernists and working closely with the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK).

My project, Plagiarism Hunting in Early Modern Europe: Knowledge Circulation and Its Limits, examines how and why European scholars in the seventeenth century began to pay close attention to plagiarism. I will explore Latin treatises on plagiarism, cases debated in scholarly journals, and institutional responses from academies and universities. As part of this work, I hope to establish a network for plagiarism studies across different historical periods and regions—if you are interested in joining, I would love to hear from you!

This project marks a new stage in my connection with LUCK. Over the last few years, I have engaged with the Centre’s activities and discovered the history of knowledge as a  particularly fruitful framework for my research. I especially appreciate how the field unsettles conventional boundaries between historical specialisms and fosters rich conceptual and methodological discussions. My Pro Futura project engages closely and critically with theories of knowledge circulation and their celebration of copying and transmission. The long history of plagiarism, I suggest, offers an opportunity to rethink this model—something I especially look forward to exploring with colleagues at LUCK.

Read more about the Pro Futura Programme: https://www.swedishcollegium.se/archives/news/2025/2025-02-25-six-talented-early-career-scholars-appointed-pro-futura-scientia-xix-fellows