Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies

Old Testament exegesis, researching the origins of the concept of the divine council, as documented in the Hebrew Bible and ANE records, and its influence on the rise of Monotheism in early Israel.

Finn Arne Jørgensen was assistant professor of history of technology and environment from 2010-2014, and associate professor of the same field from 2014-2017. He is at present Professor of environmental history at University of Stavanger, Norway, but remains employed in a 20% position at Umeå University for two externally funded research grants, Digital Models and Experiencing Nature in the Digital Age.

I am a post-doc interested in resource history, specifically studying global resource flows and how trade relations have been negotiated.

For presentation and publications, see my home page:

http://www.ingvarjohansson.se

Professor emeritus of history

Peter Bennesved is a historian of science and ideas. Bennesved's researh interest concern the history of civil defense during the twentieth-century from a history of technology-perspective.