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Mads Jensen is a Researcher at Lund University's Department of History within the Faculty of Humanities. As a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, he leads the "CoDaCO: Constructing the Danish Colonial State in Global Contexts" project (2023-2025) and participates in the European research network "Natural Law 1625-1850" and Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK).
His research centers on early modern political thought, examining how natural law theories addressed religious upheavals from the Protestant Reformation through Denmark-Norway's Enlightenment period and European colonial expansion in West Africa and the Caribbean. Current work analyzes Denmark's colonial state formation (1784-1807) across India, Africa, the Caribbean, and Greenland, investigating how revolutionary-era conflicts influenced Danish colonial policy through global intellectual history frameworks. He previously studied Melanchthon's moral philosophy and natural law's role in justifying absolutism and colonialism.
Jensen's recent publications reveal consistent focus on natural law's intersection with colonial administration and religious reform. His work bridges Scandinavian intellectual history with global colonial contexts, particularly examining textual silences in Danish slave-trading records and natural law's application in church governance. Key trends include methodological innovation in connecting European philosophical developments with colonial practices across multiple continents.
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship
Jensen secures major research funding including his Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship for CoDaCO and DFG support for studying academic natural law in Denmark-Norway (1690-1773). He actively collaborates through LUCK and the "Human rights in eighteenth-century global and colonial contexts" project, with recent conference participation on natural law traditions. His grant portfolio emphasizes transnational historical analysis of colonial systems.
As core member of LUCK and the Natural Law 1625-1850 network, Jensen operates within Lund University's interdisciplinary research ecosystem. His CoDaCO project coordinates analysis of Danish colonial archives across four global regions, while his paused DFG project involves manuscript research at Halle's Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies. Current work emphasizes collaborative knowledge production across European and postcolonial research teams.
