Vice-Rector for international relations Astri Andresen

Vice-rector for international relations Astri Andresen Foto: (Foto: Magnus Vabø/UiB)

Phone: +47 55 58 20 51 / +47 55 58 23 16
Cell phone: +47 991 69 819
Email: Astri.Andresen@rektor.uib.no
Visiting address: Muséplass 1

Andresen is Professor in History at the Dept. of History, Archaeology, Cultural Studies and Religion (AHKR). She was born in the county of Evenes in 1955. She studied at the University of Tromsø, where she received her Cand. Mag (BA) and Cand. Philos ( MA) degrees. She attained a doctoral grant from the Norwegian Research Council, and was created Dr. Philos in 1992 on a dissertation on border-crossing reindeer herding in Norway and Sweden, 1840s-1920. She was engaged as Associate Professor and Research fellow at the University of Tromsø until 1993, when she was appointed Associate Professor at the Department of History, University of Bergen. She was promoted professor in 2007. In the years 2003-2007 she was part time research fellow at the Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies.

Professor Andresen is engaged in research on the history of children and childhood, Sámi history, medical history and the history of health and welfare. She has published articles in Norwegian and international journals. She has co-edited several volumes, among them Making a New Countryside: Health Policies and Practices in European History ca. 1860-1960 (Peter Lang 2009). Among her latest publications is a chapter in Medicine in the Remote and Rural North, 1800-2000 (Pickering & Chatto 2011), and a co-authored volume with five Nordic historians: Barnen och välfärdspolitiken. Nordiska barndomar 1900-2000 (Dialogos 2011).

Andresen is heading the research group Health, Welfare and Science History at AHKR; the Nordic network ”History of health and medicine; theories, agendas and practices” (NordForsk 2008 - 2011); and the project “Methodological approaches to international ideas and knowledge exchanges” (Norwegian Research Council 2010 - 2012). She is chair of the steering committee for “Project Science History at UiB” (2009 - 2012).

Andresen teaches history at all levels from BA to PhD with themes from Norwegian and European 19^th and 20^th century history and historical theories and methods. She has supervised between 40 and 50 MA-thesis and a number of PhD-students.

Professor Andresen has wide-ranging experience from various offices, committees and boards. She has been Head of the Department of History, University of Bergen (1996-98) and Chair of the Norwegian Council for History (1996-97). She has been a member of the executive board, the Faculty of Arts (1996-98), board member of Heimen, the Norwegian Journal for Local History (2001-2006), a member of the Norwegian Historical Source Committee at the Norwegian National Archive (2004-2007), of the International Advisory Board at Centre for Health, Medicine and Society, Oxford Brookes University (2004-2007), Local History Archives in Bergen (2005-2009) and Unifob (2008-2009).

Presently, she is at the board of Medical History (2009-) and Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning (2009-), at the Advisory Board, Centre for the Social History of Health and Health Care, Glasgow Caledonian University/University of Strathclyde (2007-),  the Scientific Board, European Association for the History of Health and Medicine (EAHMH) (2009-), the research committee, AHKR (2008-), Programme Committee, Sámi Research II, the Research Council of Norway (2009- ), and the Research Committee, Norwegian Constitution Bicentennial 2014, the Research Council of Norway (2010- ). As Vice-Rector, she is engaged in World Universities Network (WUN) and Sanord.