Director of Research

Professor, Department of History, University of Bergen

Current research Project

• Global Moments in the Levant

   

  Selected Publications

• 1989 Prelude to the Mahdiyya. Peasants and traders in the Shendi Region,1821-1885. African
  Studies Series, 62. CUP, Cambridge 1989.
• 1991 "On the origin and structure of private lagal documents in the Sudan and their value as historical sources" in Understanding and History in Arts and Sciences, Acta Humaniora Universitatis Bergensis, vol. 1. Redigert av R. Skarstein, E. Kleppe and R. Bjerre Finnestad, Solum Forlag, 1991, 97-107.
• 1991 "A land dispute in Berber", by A. Bjørkelo and Ahmad Shouk. In Sudanic Africa. A Journal of Historical Sources. II, 1991: 1-28.
• 1996 The Public Treasury of the Muslims. Monthly Budgets of the Mahdist State in the Sudan, 1897. (With Ahmed I. Abu Shouk). The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage: Politics, Society and Economy, vol. 5. E.J. Brill, Leiden.
• 1997 "The territorial unification and administrative divisions of Turkish Sudan, 1821-1885." I Sudan Notes and Records, 1 (New Series), 1997: 25-46.
• 1997 "Credit, loans and obligations in the nineteenth century Sudan." i Ersland, G.A., Hovland, E., og Dyrvik, S. (red.),Festskrift til Historisk institutts 40-års jubileum 1997, Historisk institutt, Universitetet i Bergen, Skrifter nr. 2. Bergen 1997: 167-184.
• 1999 “Noen karakteristiske trekk ved økonomisk virksomhet i Det osmanske riket.”
  i Den Jyske Historiker, nr. 86/87, 1999, 121-143.
• 2004 The Principles of Native Administration in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 1898-1956. Edited with an introduction by A.I. Abushouk and A. Bjørkelo.
  Published by the Abdel Karim Mirghani Cultural Centre, Omdurman, and the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Bergen. Printed in Beirut.
• 2005 “Landsale Contracts as Historical Sources: Methodology and Analysis”, in Donald Crummey (ed.), Land, Literacy and the State in Sudanic Africa, Red Sea Press, Trenton, 213-224.
• 2006 ”Den sudanesiske tragedien”, article in Bergens Tidende april 6, p.37.
• 2006 ”Striden om nasjonal identitet i Sudan: Ein arv frå kolonitida?”, in Babylon, 4/1, 2006, 58-65.
• 2007. The Indian Ocean in the Ancient Period: Definite Places, translocal exchange. Eds. Seland, Eivind Heldaas; Bjørkelo, Anders; Meyer, Jørgen Christian.  Oxford: Archaeopress.
• 2007. “Sudan”, chapter in Africa Yearbook 2006. (Forthcoming). Brill, Leiden.
  
  

  Papers and seminar lectures
  

• Transjordan in the Nineteenth Century: Ottoman reforms and socio-economic change. With Kamal Abd El-Fatah. Paper presented to the GML-workshop in Bergen and Voss, 26-29 March 2007.
• ”The attraction of the periphery: 19th Century Ottoman Transjordan and Sudan compared”. presented to theThe Seventh Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies. ”The Middle East: Diversity - Variation – Interpretation”, 21-23 September 2007, Helsinki
• Two lectures on the History of Palestine and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at Voss Gymnas, 26 January 2007.

  
  

• Går mot total kollaps (Dagbladet, 14.06.07)
• "Bill. Merk.: "ekspert" (Forskerforum, nr. 39/7, 2007)
• Interview with Anders Bjørkelo (TV2 Nyhetskanalen, 14, 15, 16 June 2007)
• Interview with A. Bjørkelo on the situation in Palestine (BT, 19.06.07)
  
  

  Curriculum Vitae

• Cand. Philol. 1976
• Dr. Philos. 1984
• Førsteamanuensis ved Historisk institutt, UiB, 1988-2001
• Professor ved Historisk institutt, UiB, 2001 >
• Styreleiar ved Senter for Midtausten og islamske studiar, UiB, 2002
• Fagleg koordinator for Bachelorprogrammet i Midtaustenkunnskap, 2002
• Forskningsleiar ved Senter for Midtausten og islamske studiar, 2006
• Prosjektkoordinator, Sudanprogrammet 1987-1995.
• Prosjektleiar, The Indian Ocean History Project, 2001-04. (NFR)
• Prosjektleiar, ”Hilfe für unterdrückte Frauen.” 2003-2007, (NFR)
• Prosjektdeltaking, ”Lower Jordan River Program” 2000-2006, (NUFU)
• Forskningsleiar Senter for Midtøsten- og islamske studiar (UiB), 2006

Address
Anders Bjørkelo
Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies,
University of Bergen
Nygårdsgt. 5
N-5015 Bergen
Norway
Tel: +47-5558 318, Fax: +47-5558 9891
anders.bjorkelo@smi.uib.no