Prof. Bo Stråth

A historian by training, Bo Stråth teaches contemporary history at the University of Helsinki, Finland; previously at the European University Institute, Florence. His research interests are focused on the modernisation and democratisation processes in Western Europe in a comparative context. He has published extensively in this field, focusing on the question of contradictions and variety in modernity ('multiple/entangled modernities').

He has been a professor of history at Göteborgs universitet and a visiting fellow/professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the Collegium for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (SCASSS) in Uppsala and at Aarhus universitet, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Universität Bielefeld, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Universtiät in Frankfurt am Main, Lunds universitet, Saitama Daigaku, Stockholms universitet (SCORE) and Tokyo Daigaku (Todai, Japan Foundation Fellow).

He has received Alexander von Humboldt Fellowships in Kiel and Glasgow. Since 1996 he has been a member of the International Committeee for Social History.