Per Anders Rudling

Per Anders Rudling is an Associate Professor at the Department of History, Lund University, with a focus on Eastern and Central Europe. He serves as a Wallenberg Academy Fellow (2019) and has held visiting positions, including at the University of Vienna (2015). He teaches World, European, Russian, and Ukrainian history, alongside graduate seminars in theory.

His research explores nationalism, historical culture, and memory politics in the Polish-Ukrainian-Belarusian borderlands. He investigates post-Soviet memory narratives, Holocaust remembrance, and diaspora nationalism. Recent publications analyze far-right memory strategies, Canadian Holocaust denial, and Belarusian identity politics.

Key projects include the EU-funded EUROPAST (2022-2025) on public history and the Long-Distance Nationalism study (2022-2023). His 2015 monograph The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906-1931 received the Kulczycki Book Prize (2015) and he was awarded the Inga och John Hains Stiftelse Prize (2022). Collaborations span institutions in Canada, Ukraine, Germany, and Austria.