Rolf Torstendahl#
| Membership Number: | 259 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2001 Emeritus professor of Uppsala University
- 1981 - 2000 Professor of History, Uppsala University
- 1994 - 1999 Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Uppsala University
- 1993 - 1997 Head of the Department of History, Uppsala University
- 1985 - 1990 Director of The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (SCASSS)
- 1978 - 1980 Professor (Sven Warburg Professor) of History, University of Stockholm
- 19680 - 1978 Associate Professor, Department of History, Uppsala university
- 1964 - 1967 Lecturer, Department of History, Uppsala University
- 1964 PhD (awarded with the title of docent)
Fields of Scholarship
- Historical relation between politics and administration in the late 19th and the 20th centuries
- History of historiography in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Epistemological foundations of history
Honours and Awards
- 1982 Member of Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet (The Royal Society of Scholarship), Uppsala
- 1986 Member of Kungl. Vitterhets, Historie och Antikvitetsakademien (The Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities), Stockholm
- 1989 Member of Academia Europaea, Cambridge and London
- 1989 Member of Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi (The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters), Oslo
- 1995 Honorary member of the Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Science, Ekaterinburg
- 1997 Member of Vetenskapssocieteten (the Society of Science), Uppsala
- 2006 Doctor honoris causa at the Russian State University for the Humanities, RGGU
