AMID: Organization and Staff: Ulf Hedetoft

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	Name:	Ulf Hedetoft
	Academic Title:	Dr.phil.
	Position:	Professor
	Office:	Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen
	Address:	Njalsgade 80, DK-2300 Copenhagen S
	Phone:	+45 35329410
	Email:	hedetoft@hum.ku.dk
	Fax:	35 32 94 95

Affiliation with AMID
AMID Director
Responsible for AMID research project
PhD co-supervisor for Susi Meret

Current positions and affiliations

Head of Department, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen
(February 2007 -)
Professor of International Studies (since 1995), Aalborg University. Affiliated with the Institute for History and International Studies, especially the European Studies and the Intercultural Studies Sections
Founding Director, The Academy for Migration Studies in Denmark (AMID).
Member of Board and former Founding Director of SPIRIT - School for Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Research on Interculturalism and Transnationality.
Executive Committee Member, the International Society for the Study of European Ideas.
Board Member, Graduate School for Welfare State Studies, Aalborg University and Roskilde University (funded by the Danish Research Council for the Social Sciences).
Member of Steering Committee, Danish Political Theory Network (funded by the Danish Research Council for the Social Sciences).
Associate of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego.
Associated international research co-investigator, research project on ‘Globalization and Autonomy’, funded by the Canadian Research Council 2002-2007, directed by the Institute for Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar, Salzburg, Austria.
Board Member, Danish Research Network on Equality and Justice (funded by the Danish Research Council for the Social Sciences).
External examiner, the Departments of Political Science, Copenhagen University, Aarhus University and the University of Southern Denmark.

Educational background

MA (English and American Studies, Copenhagen University, 1970).
Dr.phil., based on senior-level dissertation on the political semiotics of nationalism in Europe (Aalborg University, 1996 – written during stay as Visiting Scholar at CES, Harvard University).

Previous and current administrative duties

Chair, the Department for Education and Socialization, Aalborg University, 1981-1985.
Chair, the Department for Languages and Intercultural Studies, Aalborg University, 1986-1992.
Director of Study Board for Foreign Languages and International Studies, 1996-98.
Director of the European Cultural Studies Program (for international students), 1988-2000.
Member of the Faculty Board of Humanities, 1997-2001 and 2002-.
Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, 1998-2002.
Member of the Dean’s PhD Committee, 1998-.

In addition, service on a large number of screening committees for tenured positions at different Danish and international universities and other institutions of higher education (among these six committees for full professorial positions). I have also been a member of Aalborg University’s International Committee and have served on national committees and boards for internationalizing and Europeanizing Danish higher education.

Previous positions

Lecturer in English Studies, Copenhagen University.
Senior Lecturer and later Reader in British and American Cultural and Social Studies, Aalborg University.
External Professor (II), the University of Trondheim, Norway.
Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Visiting Professor and Distinguished Scholar in the Humanities, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Founding Director of SPIRIT (School for Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Research on Interculturalism and Transnationality), 1996-2002, and Coordinator of SPIRIT-Europe, 2000-2002 (EU funded Marie Curie Training Site for doctoral candidates).
Member of the Board of Directors, the Danish Institute for the Arts and Sciences in Rome, Italy, 1998-2002.

Scholarships and grants (selected)

1986-87: Senior Research Fellowship Grant, Aalborg University (project on British racism and immigration in light of colonial history).
1987-89: Several travel grants from the British Council toward research in Britain and toward setting up inter-university collaboration.
1991: International Visiting Scholarship, USIA.
1993-94: Fulbright Fellowship Award toward sabbatical year at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University.
1998: Award to take up Visiting Professorship in the Humanities Center, University of Oregon at Eugene.
2000: DAAD Grant toward lecturing at the University of Trier, Germany.
2001-2006: Danish Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social Sciences, project funding for ‘Discourses and Images of Belonging: Migrants between “New Racism”, Liberal Nationalism and Globalization’.
2002-2007: Canadian Research Council Grant toward participation in project on ‘Globalization and Autonomy’.
2003: Fellowship Award toward participation in Salzburg Seminar on ‘Migration, Race and Ethnicity in Europe’ (June 17-24).

Current and recent research interests
European nationalism and national mentality in comparative and intercultural perspective; cultural encounters, migration and ethnic relations; political cultures and political integration in contemporary Europe and North America; political and cultural anthropology; transatlantic relations; globalization.

New and current research projects

Discourses and Images of Belonging: Migrants between New Racism, Liberal Nationalism and Globalization (individual project funded by the Danish Research Agency, 2001-2005)
‘The Immigrant’ as a Cultural and Political Topos in the Danish Media, 1980-2002
Globalization & Autonomy (collective project funded by Canadian Research Council, 2002-2007). See www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~global/global.htm
US Foreign Policy after 1945: Cynical or Benevolent – National or Imperial? International conference scheduled for June, 2006 (with Bonnie Boye).
Global Migration Management and Irregular Migration (coordinator). New 4-year project funded by the Danish Research Agency.
Immigration and Integration Policies in Denmark and Sweden: A Comparative Perspective. Collective project. Publication envisaged in fall 2006.
EUROSPHERE: Research Network on Citizenship, Identity Structures, and Public Spaces in the EU. Integrated Project, currently in the form of an application to EU’s 6th Framework Programme (passed first stage).

Guest lectures
Within the last ten years, invited lectures have been given at a number of international universities or research institutes, including the Catholic University of Leuven; Harvard University; CERI and Sciences-Po, Paris; the University of Seville; the Institute of International Relations, Geneva, and the Department of Political Science, University of Geneva; the University of Limerick, Ireland; the University of Stirling, Scotland; the University of Sheffield; the University of Birmingham; the University of Trier; the European University Institute, Italy; Johns Hopkins University and the Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington DC; the University of North Carolina; the University of California at Santa Barbara; the University of Oregon at Eugene; Tulane University, New Orleans; the University of Illinois at Chicago; the University of California at Davis; the University of Stockholm; the University of Lund; the University of Oslo; the University of Trondheim; the University of Helsinki.

Teaching experience and teaching areas
Thirty-four years of teaching experience in higher education, primarily within intersections of cultural, political and linguistic issues, and mainly at the University of Copenhagen and Aalborg University. I have also taught at the University of Trondheim in Norway, at Harvard University, and the University of Oregon. Primary teaching areas are: Cultures and mentalities in comparative perspective; Anglo-American society, history and culture; transatlantic relations; society and politics in Europe, with special emphasis on nation-states and national identities; intercultural communication and international relations; sociological, semiotic and ethnographic issues in modern and contemporary societies. In addition, extensive experience with supervising doctoral students, with organizing and teaching PhD seminars, and assessing PhD theses (all of this in Denmark as well as abroad, e.g. the USA, Italy, Australia, Norway and Sweden).

Selected publications
Book-length publications include British Colonialism and Modern Identity (Aalborg University Press, 1985); Signs of Nations: Studies in the Political Semiotics of Self and Other in Contemporary European Nationalism (Dartmouth, 1995); Political Symbols, Symbolic Politics: European Identities in Transformation (Ashgate, 1998); The Postnational Self: Belonging and Identity (Minnesota University Press, 2002); Danish Immigration Research 1980-2002 (Copenhagen: The Danish Ministry for Integration Affairs, 2002 - in Danish); The Global Turn: National Encounters with the World (Aalborg University Press, 2003); The Politics of Multiple Belonging: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Europe and East Asia (Ashgate, 2004); as well as numerous articles in journals and anthologies. Also recently contributed to Informal Governance in the EU (eds Thomas Christiansen & Simona Piattoni, Edward Elgar, 2004) and Jorden runt igen – nya bidrag till en gammal globalhistoria (eds Arne Jarrick & Alf Johansson, Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2004) Current work deals with the impact of globalization and Europeanization on the sovereignty and autonomy of small states; with phases and modalities of historical globalization; with American neo-empire and its relations to historical processes of globalization and autonomy; and with Russian policies of identity and security in the global era. Further, contributions to two upcoming international “handbooks” (of European Social Science – Routledge, 2006 – and Socio-Cultural Psychology – Cambridge UP, 2006) and to the Encyclopedia of Nations and Nationalisms in Global Perspective (ABC-CLIO, 2006/07) are forthcoming.

Miscellaneous

Editor of AMID’s Working Paper Series, and former editor of SPIRIT’s Discussion Papers and the European Studies Occasional Papers Series. Former editor of and member of advisory boards for several journals and periodicals in the human and social sciences.
Coordinator of/participant in a number of international/European research networks.
Referee/reviewer for a number of international journals within international relations, international sociology and nationality studies, and migration and ethnicity research.
International evaluator/expert and external advisor to social and humanities research councils in Great Britain, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Expert evaluator of project proposals submitted to EU Research Programs.
Advisor to the UN Commission on Global Migration.
Long experience with course and curriculum development, teaching and group supervision in international and European studies, both as regards BA and MA degree courses as well as doctoral programs.

CV in PDF format.

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