Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen
Professor of Intellectual History at Nord University Bodø since 2015.
Visiting professor École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris 2024-2025.
Henrik Steffens professor Humboldt Universität zu Berlin 2011-2014.
Areas of research:
Intellectual history, media history, media theory, modern history of France, Germany and Norway, social philosophy, freedom of speech, cosmopolitanism.
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Dissemination
I regularly contribute to Norwegian weekly Morgenbladet.
Publications by Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen in the Norwegian Research Information Repository
https://nva.sikt.no/filter?query=kjetil+ansgar+jakobsen&order=relevance&sort=desc&from=120&results=10
Teaching
History of Social Science
SAM9001
(With Johan Heilbron CNRS-EHESS)
Rom A134 Mørkved 2-5 Februay 2026
Master (senior teaching education) Social Science and History
Theory, Method and Historiography
HI301S
https://www.nord.no/en/studies/courses/hi301s
PhD supervison:
Pål Halvorsen: "Egalitarian Consecration. Negotiating Historical Elite Institutions". Completed 2020.
Fredrik Wilhelmsen: “Decay and rebirth : Conceptions of history in Norwegian right-wing extremism” Completed 2021.
Lisa Aareskjold: «Språkpolitikkens metaforer. En metaforteoretisk komparativ analyse av norsk, samisk, og nyere minoritetsspråk i den nasjonale språkpolitikk fra 2008-2020". [The Metaphors of Language Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Metaphors used in Connection with Norwegian, Sámi, and Newer Minority Languages in Norwegian Governmental Papers on Language Policy from 2008–2020]. Completed 2024.
Ongoing:
Mario Kikas: “Plebeian Moment: representation and conceptualization of the people in the popular-frontist cultural debates on the European semi-periphery”.
Marte Stavrum Fagertun «Tyske og norske nazisters holdninger til samer under andre verdenskrig».
Gunn Søfting “Alternative destinations. British tourism in Helgeland, Northern Norway 1850-1930".
Winner of the The Nord University Research prize for 2023.
Project Lead. Words and Violence. Literary Intellectuals Between Democracy and Dictatorship 1933-52.
https://site.nord.no/words-and-violence/
Full length publications by Kjetil Jakobsen available at: https://nord.academia.edu/KjetilAnsgarJakobsen
