Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
Image: Erik Vesterberg
Image: Erik Vesterberg
The Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies combines researchers, teachers and students from many research areas within the humanities under one roof. This mix of creative people and ideas creates a dynamic atmosphere that facilitates strong research environments and a wide variety of courses and programs.
Research within archaeology, history, history of ideas, philosophy, religious studies and theology.
We conduct research within archaeology, history, history of ideas, philosophy, religious studies and theology.
External contacts are of great importance to us, as is an on-going dialogue with media and society.
See our degree programmes.
We offer courses within a number of subjects in the Humanities. See our range of courses.
We have about 20 active doctoral students and provide doctoral studies in many subjects within the Humanities.
Six researchers receive SEK 38 million in Wallenberg grants for forestry-related research.
The satellite was hosted by InfraVis, MAL and Humlab during the Swedish e-Science Academy 2025 in Umeå
Doctoral student Madelen Johansson held her mid seminar where she presented her dissertation on Israel Ruong.