The following people are affiliated researchers to LUCK in 2024–2026. They are all employed at other universities than Lund but they have closely collaborated with us in recent years.

Joel Barnes is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research focuses on histories of universities, the humanities disciplines, and science, especially evolutionary biology. He is the co-editor with Tamson Pietsch of a special issue of History of Education Review on ‘The History of Knowledge and the History of Education’ (2022), and a contributor to the LUCK volume Knowledge Actors: Revisiting Agency in the History of Knowledge (2023). He is interested in the development of history of knowledge of knowledge approaches in colonial and postcolonial settings, as well as the field’s connections with histories of education. Joel is also presently working on projects on the humanities disciplines in the ‘Dawkins reforms’ of Australian universities of the late 1980s, and (with Ian Hesketh) on transnational commemorations of the life and work of Charles Darwin.

Anton Jansson is associate professor (docent) in History of Ideas and Science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where he also obtained his PhD in 2017. His research in the history of knowledge and the history of political thought mainly deals with questions of religion, secularization, and Christianity in the modern era. At the moment, he is mainly occupied researching the history of atheism in Sweden. He has published extensively on this topic in Swedish and English and is co-director of the International Society for Historians on Atheism, Secularism, and Humanism. Jansson is also interested in the history of humanities, both the social impact of humanistic knowledge and the academic history of intellectual history. Between 2019 and 2021, Jansson worked on a research project at LUCK together with Johan Östling and Ragni Svensson Stringberg, which resulted – among other things – in the monograph Humanister i offentligheten and the edited volume Humaniora i välfärdssamhället. His individual work has appeared in journals such as Global Intellectual History and History of Intellectual Culture.

Maria Simonsen earned her PhD in Book History from Lund University in December 2016 on a thesis about Scandinavian encyclopedias. Since then, she has been attached to History at the Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University. Her research interests lie in the tension between media, people, institutions, and knowledge. She is particularly interested in how knowledge circulates and how it changes when circulating. Currently, her research focuses on the history of universities. She is particularly interested in the everyday life of Scandinavian universities in the period after 1970 and how students, staff, and faculty alike co-created the university. These new universities experimented both pedagogically and research-wise, and thereby created a new kind of knowledge institution that also inspired the traditional universities. Inspired by the history of knowledge she finds it particularly interesting to see how different forms of knowledge emerge when including different groups of employees. Simonsen’s publications include “Videnshistorie: Nye veje i historievidenskaberne” in TEMP – tidsskrift for historie (2019; with Laura Skouvig), “Routes of Knowledge: The Transformations and Circulation of Knowledge in UNESCO Courier, 1947–55” in the LUCK volume Forms of Knowledge and “The Aalborg Experiment. The Idea of a new University”, Nordic Journal of Educational History (2023). Together with Laura Skouvig, she has initiated the Danish Network of the History of Knowledge.

Laura Skouvig is associate professor at the Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen. She is interested in the relations between humans, technology, media, information and knowledge and how these relations have changed over time. Her main focus is how conditions for people’s access to information and knowledge is historically embedded and changing. Information is formed in a complex interaction between discourses, media, institutions, technologies (in the broadest possible understanding), and people as also information contributes to creating and shaping e.g. media and institutions. She wants to understand these heterogenous conditions for people’s understanding of and use of information. Her research currently centres on the Danish absolutist state (1660–1849) as an information state. With inspiration from the history of knowledge she looks at the practices that shaped bureaucratic knowledge as a distinct form of knowledge and the bureaucracy as a central actor (amongst others). Her publications comprise “The Raw and the Cooked” in the LUCK volume Forms of Knowledge (2020) and “Videnshistorie: Nye veje i historievidenskaberne” in TEMP – tidsskrift for historie (2019; with Maria Simonsen). Together with Maria Simonsen, she has initiated the Danish Network of the History of Knowledge.