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Lina Sturfelt serves as Senior Lecturer in Human Rights and Associate Professor (Docent) in History at Lund University's Department of History within the Faculty of Humanities and Theology. She currently holds the administrative position of Head of Department (2022-2025) while maintaining active research and teaching responsibilities. Her dual affiliation includes being an Affiliated Researcher at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies.
Her research focuses on the cultural history of war with particular emphasis on First World War narratives, discourses of mental illness in Swedish social care (1900-2017), and humanitarian history centered on children's rights. Current projects examine Swedish Save the Children during the interwar period and emotional-historical perspectives on conflict. Her work intersects with UN Sustainable Development Goals related to human rights and child welfare.
Recent publications demonstrate consistent thematic focus on Scandinavian neutrality during WWI, humanitarian breakthroughs, and evolving conceptualizations of children's rights. Her scholarship combines media-historical analysis with emotional and rights-based frameworks, revealing how war narratives shape national identities and social policies across temporal boundaries.
As academic supervisor, she currently mentors Ida Jansson's doctoral research in Human Rights and has previously guided history PhD candidates Erik Bodensten and Andreas Tullberg to completion. Her leadership extends to chairing the Swedish Arts Council's non-fiction literature group (2012-2016) and active participation in the international 'Network for the study of neutral Scandinavia in the First World War'.
Her institutional roles include coordinating the Lund Human Rights Research Hub and contributing to gender-focused research networks. The Department of History provides her primary academic base while her cross-disciplinary work connects with Asian studies and medical humanities through affiliated research centers.
