Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study
Sweden
fellow
Jenny Andersson
2026-2027
Home institution
Uppsala University
Country of origin (home institution)
Sweden
Discipline(s)
Contemporary history; Earth, environmental and climate sciences; History of ideas; History of science and technology; Humanities; Interdisciplinary Studies
Theme(s)
Artificial Intelligence; Cultural Studies; Environment, Sustainability & Biodiversity; Future Studies; Human Rights
Fellowship dates
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Biography
Sabbatical Fellow, SCAS
Professor of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University
Jenny Andersson is a professor of the history of science and ideas at Uppsala University specializing in 20th-century European political thought. She has worked on contemporary social democracy, neoliberalism in the Nordic sphere, and the history of future thinking, futurology and future studies. Among her publications are The Future of the World. Futurology, Futurists, and the Struggle for the Post Cold War Imagination, Oxford University Press, 2018, and “Neoliberalism from Within: The Business Fund and the Struggle for Market Ideology in Sweden” in Contemporary European History, 2025.
At SCAS, Andersson will be working on her new project, “FUTURED: Future Ideologies after 1970”, which explores ideas of a posthuman future in the contemporary political imagination.
This information is accurate as of the academic year 2026-27.
Research Project
“FUTURED: Future Ideologies after 1970”
At SCAS, Jenny Andersson will be working on her new project, “FUTURED: Future Ideologies after 1970”, which explores ideas of a posthuman future in the contemporary political imagination.
Research Interests:
Political economy; intellectual history; futures; market