Casper Sylvest

Kort præsentation

Casper Sylvest is a professor of history and Head of the Saxo Institute.

Interesseområder

The political and cultural history of the nuclear age; Cold war civil defence; the history of technology since 1900; environmental history and global politics; British intellectual history 1850-1970; modern British political history, c. 1850-; the history of international political thought and modern political theory; the history and politics of visual imagery; history of international legal thought, c. 1780-1970.

Undervisnings- og vejledningsområder

Twentieth-century political and cultural history (Denmark, UK, US); history of technology, environmental history; diplomatic history; international history; British history.

CV

Academic positions

2023- : Professor and Head of Institute, Aug-
Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark

2023-2023: Professor of Modern History, Feb-Aug
Department of Language, Culture, History and Communication
University of Southern Denmark (SDU)

2013-2023: Associate Professor
Department of History, SDU

2009-2013: Associate Professor
Department of Political Science, SDU

2007-2009: Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science, SDU

2006-2007: Temporary Lecturer
Department of Political Science, SDU

Education

2007: PhD, History, 2007 (Conferred 2008), History Faculty, University of Cambridge, UK

2003: MA Political Science (cand.scient.pol.), Department of Political Science, UCPH

2002: MPhil International Relations, Centre for International Studies, University of Cambridge, UK