1. CurriculumVitae
PersonalDetails
Full name:ANDREASÖnnerfors
Nationality:Swedish
Marital status:married
Address:StoraTomegatan31d, 223 51 LUND, Sweden
Telephone:+46 (0)46 240 11 99
Mobile:+46 (0)70 676 93 23
E-mail:andreas.onnerfors@gu.se
Academic Skills
AcademicDegree
1999 BA inHistoryof SciencesandIdeas
2003 PhD Degree in Historyof SciencesandIdeas
2012 Associate Professorin Historyof SciencesandIdeas,Lunduniversity,Sweden2014.
Languages(self-evaluation): Swedish andGerman (bilingual)
English(competentlanguage use,mastery,C2)
Russian(readingandcolloquial,A2,B1)
French(readingandcolloquial,A2,B1)
Passive understandingof Norwegian andDanish
Research Supervision
Dorothe Sommer(completed2013) dissertationoncivil societyinGreaterSyriaunderthe
Frenchmandate.
Academic Positions
• Associate Professor/SeniorLecturer inHistoryof SciencesandIdeas,2014- (ongoing)
University of Gothenburg,Sweden.
• Seniorlectureratthe DepartmentforGlobal Political Studies(HumanRights,Peace and
ConflictStudies,EuropeanStudies,Political Studies),(2011-2014) Malmö university,Sweden
• Researcher(2010-2011), Lunduniversitylibrary,Sweden.
• SeniorLecturerinHistory,Directorof the Centre forResearchintoFreemasonryand
Fraternalism, (2007-2010), Universityof Sheffield,UK
• Post-doc,(2007) Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis,France
• Post-doctoral positions, (2004-2007) Universityof Lund,Sweden
Research or Teaching VisitsAbroad
CommissionsasGuestResearcherAbroad
April-September2016, residential juniorfellow atthe AlfriedKrupp Wissenschaftskolleg
Greifswald,Germany
2007-2010 The Universityof Sheffield,UK(see above)
Teaching Internationally
November2011: three weeksof teachingatthe Universityof Jordan,Ammanat the Faculty
of InternationalStudiesindifferentmasterprograms
2007-2010: occasional teachingandsupervisionatUniversity of Sheffield, UK
2007 (springterm):teachingatUniversityof Freiburgi.Br.,Germany

2. Leadershipand Administrative Skills
Experienceof Leadership and Administration
Substitute Headof Peace andConflictStudies,Substitute Headof EuropeanStudies (2012-
2013), Universityof Malmö,Sweden
Internationalisation of AcademicProgrammes
2013: PlanningtriptoYogyakarta,Indonesiaforfuture collaboration withthe Universitas
Gadja Madah (UGM) withinthe SwedishLinnaeus-Palme program. Organizingguestvisitto
Malmö university,SwedenfordelegationfromUGM.
Extramural AcademicActivitiesand Awards
InternationalCommission
2014: electedmemberof ClassI(Humanities)of the EuropeanAcademyof SciencesandArts,
Salzburg,Austria
2010-2012: Foundingeditorof the JournalforResearch into Freemasonry and Fraternalism
(Equinox Publishers)
NationalCommission
Chairman,Societyforthe Historyof Science,Sweden
Participating atNationaland InternationalAcademicConferences (relevantselection)
• February2016: “Taking the StreetswithConcepts?Re-semantizationandRadicalizationof
Political Language inthe GermanPEGIDA-Movement”atthe international symposium
“UnderstandingIdeological Radicalization: mappingmethodsandmodels”,Malmö
University,Sweden,11-12 February2016.
• June 2015: “Claimingthe Rightof Free Expression:WordsasWeaponsinthe EuropeanFar-
Right”,paperpresentedatco-organized panel(withDr.Steiner) IdeologicalRadicalization as
an Emerging SecurityThreat at conference Interdisciplinary Approachesto Security in the
Changing World, JagellonianUniversity,Krakow.
• July 2013: ' ”LeaderlessCounter-Jihad”:whythere are noleadersbutonlyleadingfiguresin
the counter-jihadistmilieu’international conference “FascistIdeologues,PastandPresent”,
Teeside university,Darlington
• April 2013: ”Mirroringthe ’Protocols’?ReversedConspiracisminCounter-jihadistRhetoric”,
paper-presentationinco-organizedpanel(withDr.Steiner) Overlapsof Religion and Politics:
the Diffusion of ConservativeValuesand Ideas,InternationalStudiesAssociationConference,
San Francisco4-7 April 2013 (academicconference paper)
Public Lectures, Debatesand MassMedia Appearances (relevantselection)
• November 2014: “What’s so Secret with Secret Societies? Conspiracy myths dispelled”,
winning presentation at Science Slam, University of Gothenburg, 19 November 2014
(academictalk,non-academicaudience),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3kJrTjT0wU&feature=youtu.be
• May 2014: expertandparticipantinTV-production (kunskapskanalen/UR) onconspiracy
myths, http://urplay.se/Produkter/181741-Conspiracy-Illuminati
Pedagogical Skills
Courses
Withinmydoctoral training1999-2003 I tookcourses on universitypedagogy,presentation
skillsand didacticsof history.
Teaching

3. 1999-2007: Universityof Lund,Historyof Ideas, Cultural studies,EuropeanStudies,courses
on undergraduate andpostgraduate (PhD-)level.
2007-2010: The Universityof Sheffield,UK,History,undergraduatelevel.
2011-2014: Malmö university,Sweden,EuropeanStudies,Peace andConflictStudies, Human
Rights,Political Studies fromundergraduate toadvancedlevels.
2014- (ongoing):Gothenburguniversity,Historyof SciencesandIdeas, Theoryof Sciences,
undergraduate level.Singlelecturesandteachingongraduate level.
Tutoring
Since 2011 I have tutoreda huge amountof BA-theses(antoa lesserdegree MA-theses) in
my subjectareasat Malmö andGothenburguniversities.