Kenneth Nyberg#
| Membership Number: | 5508 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/kennethnyberg |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-3152-0044 |
| Twitter: | @ksnyberg |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010-03 Reader (Associate Professor) of History, University of Gothenburg
- 2006-03 Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of History, University of Gothenburg
- 2005-04 Independent scholar affiliated with the University of Gothenburg
- 2002-10 Research Fellow, Uppsala University
Fields of Scholarship
- Global history of science
- Early modern travel and exploration
- Linnaean natural history
- Circulation of knowledge in a colonial context
- Digital history
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Member of the Nordic Advisory Board, Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK)
- 2018 Member of the Scholarly Advisory Board, National Library of Sweden
- 2015 – 2019 President of the Swedish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
- 2005 Fellow of the Linnean Society of London
