Master Thesis in Modern International and Transnational History

Here you will find all the relevant information about the master thesis in Modern International and Transnational History, including an overview of our supervisors, their field of research and suggested topics.

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Applying for a Supervisor

The master’s thesis is an individual research paper from the thematic field of international and transnational history. The purpose of the thesis is to pursue an independent research project. Students apply for a supervisor from the department in their second semester and discuss possible topics as part of this application process. It should depart from a clear research question, pursue a coherent argument and rest on profound empirical and multi-archival research as well as the use of advanced historiographical methodology.

All students will apply for an academic supervisor in beginning of the second semester. The application deadline is February 1st and you can follow the link to apply for a supervisor.

All MITRA-students are entitled to a supervisor and will get one assigned after the process of application. Please note that the supervisor has to be formally assigned by the department before this is final.

The use of a possible assistant supervisor has to be discussed and approved by the principal supervisor, who will send the request to the student advisor for approval by the Head of the Department.

The department of Archaeology, Conservation and History (IAKH) is divided into academic research- and teaching groups. Your principal supervisor will be from the academic staff at IAKH.

 

Field of Research Suggested topics for MITRA4095 Name

MITRA Supervisors

Contemporary European History

  • Facism as a National and Transnational Phenomenon
  • Radical Right Wing Movements, Parties and Think Thanks in Europe  from 1920 to Present Day.
  • Democratic Processes and Constitutionalism
  • European History of Political Ideas and Political Parties
  • Italian History and Politics

- C-REX, Center for research on Extremism

- Fascism, right-wing radicalism and extremism. Threats to the liberal democratic system in Europe before and after 1945

Elisabetta Cassina Wolff

Economic History in Europe

  • Economic Politics
  • Buisness History
  • Banking and Monetary History
The History of Statoil, 1972 - 2022 Einar Lie

Norwegian and International Contemporary History 

  • Norwegian modern history
  • Nordic foreign policy
  • Nordic security policy (NATO)
  • Conflict resolution and peace building
  • International relations
 

Ada Nissen

Will not take on new students spring 2023

Economic and social history, business history and global history 1650-1940

  • Natural resources
  • Mining
  • Education (human capital)
  • Technology and innovation
Suggested topics Kristin Ranestad

Contemporary International History

  • The Middle East
  • Politics of World powers
  • Foreign Policy
  • The Politics of Peace in Norway

 

 

- Dangerous Liaisons. The Triangular Drama Between the United States, Israel and Iran, 1953-1984

 

Hilde Henriksen Waage

Modern and Contemporary International and Transnational History

  • Humanitarianism  
  • Internationalism and International Organizations
  • (Social) Human Rights
  • Global Social Policy 
  • Working Conditions and Labour History 

- The History of Humanitarianism

- The History of Internationalism and International Organizations

Daniel Maul

International contemporary history

  • Civil Societies 
  • Humanitarian aid and international organizations
  • South Asian contemporary political history 
  •  
 

Sunniva Engh

Will not take on new students spring 2023

Contemporary Nowegian and International History

  • Cold War
  • Norwegian and American Foreign Policy
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • War and Conflicts
  • Social Democracy in Europe 
  • Second World War 

 

 

Olav Nj?lstad

Contemporary History

  • The Middle East
  • Nationalism
  • Social and Cultural History
  • Material History

- Nationalisms, Colonialism, and Revolutions

- Social Movements and the Question of Citizenship

- Culture in the Age of Globalization

Toufoul Abou-Hodeib

Will not take on new students spring 2023

Contemporary European History

  • International Legal History
  • Social, Economic, and Labour History
  • History of World War II
  • Holocaust & Genocide studies

- Observing Europe's Reunification, Media Histories & the End of the World of Print, History of and in International Law

 

Kim Christian Priemel

Contemporary History

  • International and Transnational History
  • Economy and Buisness History
  • Fashion History
  • Colonialism and Imperialism

- Consumption Societies in Modern History (19th and 20th centuries):

-Nordic Branding.

-The history of labor, value creation, and retail in the garment and fashion industries

-The history of global firms, with a focus on the creative industries

-The history of capitalism in the Belgian Congo colony

Veronique Pouillard

European history

  • History of intellectual property law
  • History of knowledge
  • History of the book
  • Media history
  • History of science and technology
Marius Buning

European History in the 20th Century

  • Popular Culture in the West 1880 - 2000
  • British History
  • Culture and Social History
  • Social Science History

- Popular Culture and Social Relations in the 20th Century

- The Production of Culture in the 20th Century

- Visions of the city: the rise and fall of social housing/gentrification/the making of the ‘creative city’

- Youth: its classification, governance and experience

- Creative Labour: work in twentieth-century cultural industries

Klaus Nathaus

Modern European History

  • 19th century (until 1914)
  • Polar history
  • History of travel (expeditions and tourism)
  • History of collections and museums
  • Topics connected to the research group "Collecting Norden"

 

Ulrike Spring

History of Science & Knowledge in its Political, Social and Cultural Contexts, 1800–2000

  • Interdisciplinary & international knowledge exchange
  • Expeditions, scientific fieldwork and collaboration
  • Histories of research institutions and disciplines
  • Gender in science and technology
  • Relationship between science, politics, and the public
Suggested topics  Johannes Mattes

Modern European History

  • Cold War Studies
  • Consumer Cultures and the History of Food
  • European Facism
  • The Sixties in Europe
  • World War II and the Holocaust
  • Colonialism and Genocide

- How the Pizza came to Norway: The Global Travelling of an Ethnic Suisine

- Borrowing from Hitler and Mussolini? Fascism in Norway

- Voices from the Sand: An Oral History of the North African Campaign 1940

Patrick Bernhard

Modern and Contemporary History

  • The politics of Nordic exceptionalism
  • Reimaging Nordic pasts: History and memory
  • The history of Norwegian students abroad
  • The history of Nordic feminism

Suggested topics

Eirinn Larsen

Modern Global History

  •  Political cultures in Latin America and the Caribbean
  •  Transatlantic migrations
  •  Comparative social history (esp. marriage)

- Scandinavians in Latin America

- Long-term effects of colonialism

- Indigenous groups and the state

Steinar Andreas S?ther
  • Migration history
  • Mobility studies
  • Middle East history
  • Ottoman history
  • World history in the 19th and early 20th centuries

Connected to: 

History of Capitalism

Stampa migrante: periodicals of the Italian community of Egypt, 1892-1940

Migration & Mobility

Technology and Urban History

Port-cities

Transnational flows of goods

 

 

Lucia Carminati
  • Modern Environmental History
  • Environment and Health
  • International Environmental History
  • Social, cultural, environmental, and medical history of modern Russia and the Soviet Union
  • History of Science
  • History of Urban Planning and Architecture

Disease and Health in the Age of the Anthropocene, 1800-2000 

The Great Acceleration: International Organisations and the Environment

Johanna Conterio

Norwegian and Transnational History 

  • Labor movement from the Russian Revolution to the Cold War
  • Propaganda during the World Wars and the Cold War
  • Transatlantic activist networks during and after World War II
  Eirik Wig Sundvall

Transnational history and labor history

  • The Nordic region and its international entanglements with emphasis on 20th century history, particularly after 1930, and includes both Nordic and North American history.
  • Scandinavian-American responses to the creation of the Scandinavian “middle way” of the 1930s
  • Cooperation between Nordic labor movements during capital market deregulation in the 1980s
  • Multiculturalism in Canada and Sweden – comparisons, contacts, and conflicts
  • Nordic expertise in the OECD and its international impact
Byron Rom-Jensen
PRIO - Peace Research Institute Oslo - Research at PRIO Stein T?nnesson and ?ystein Rolandsen m. fl.

Ethical Guidlines and Supervision Agreement

 

Formal Requirements

  •  The thesis has to have a preface.
  •  The thesis must be between 40 and 50 pages, including footnotes/references (2300 characters without spacing per page).
  • The following items are not included in the word count:
    • abstract
    • foreword
    • list of content
    • bibliography
    • attachments
  • The thesis must have a minimum font size 12, good margins and 1.5 line spacing.

Front page

  • Semester (spring / autumn), year
  • Title (and subtitle)
  • Name
  • Master's thesis Modern International and Transnational History, Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo

 

Use of Sources, Citations and Referencing

Handing in your Thesis

 

NB! Remember the compulsory assignment, see MITRA4095 – Master's thesis in Modern International and Transnational History

 

To-do-list when submitting your thesis:

1. 

2.   

  • submit your thesis Inspera, UiO's digital exam platform.
  • submit your thesis in DUO, UiO's digital repository. You do this in StudentWeb. You must log in with username and password, not your pin code.
  • See the University Library's manual on how to do this. Follow the link in the manual to log on to StudentWeb. 
  • You will receive a receipt when you have handed it in your thesis.

The department does NOT consider your thesis as submitted within the deadline if the two tasks above are not performed.

 

Deadlines for MITRA4095

You will find the formal prerequisite knowledge, compulsory assignment and exam dates by following the link to MITRA4095 – Master's thesis in Modern International and Transnational History.

Field Term - Internship & History Project - Funding and Practical Information

Support for expenses related to the completion of the master's thesis (travel support)

L?nekassen

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