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Published: 2014-09-01

Umeå researcher named Pro Futura Scientia fellow

NEWS Elise Dermineur, historian at the department of historical, philosophical and religious studies at Umeå University, has been admitted to the Pro Futura Scientia Programme. The programme provides funding to young, cutting-edge researchers in the social sciences and humanities.

In 1999, Pro Futura Scientia was established by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (RJ) and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS). To date, a total of 36 prominenent young researchers have been accepted and offered optimal conditions to pursue research and develop their competence for a period of five years.

Swedish universities have been invited to nominate up to four of their most promising researchers for the programme who have not yet attained professorships, two of whom must come from another university in Sweden or abroad.Nominees should be three to eight years beyond receiving their PhDs at the time of nomination. Approximately 10 to 20 per cent of the nominees are adopted to the programme.

Elise Dermineur is currently working on a research project affiliated at Lund University, but will return to Umeå University when Pro Futura fellowship begins next year.

Elise Dermineur's doctoral dissertation investigated gender relationships and the role of women in French rural society between 1650 and 1789 from two different perspectives – economic and socio-legal.Her research interests range widely, from the history of justice and economics to gender and women’s history. 

Her Pro Futura fellowship research project examines the concept of debt and private credit in premodern Europe from 1500 to 1800, with special reference to rural communitie is about debt and credit history during the pre-industrial era, where she special attention to women's participation.

This is the second consecutive year that a reseseacher a the Faculty of Arts has been admitted into the Pro Futura programme. In 2013, Virginia Langum, department of language studeies, was admitted as a fellow. 

The researchers who have attended the Pro Futura Scientia Programme have come to play an increasingly important role in the Swedish university and research system. They have taken up distinguished professorships, been elected members of scholarly academies and societies and joined research councils and key bodies at universities.

The 2014 Pro Futura Scienta fellows will be welcomed to the programme at a ceremony held in Uppsala on Thursday, 18 September.
 

Read more about the Pro Futura Scientia programme