Laura Skouvig

Short presentation

My research field is information history though my interest broadly speaking relate to other fields within cultural and social history. Though I started within the field of library history I'm now interested in a hodgepodge characterized by book history, media history, communcation history but adressing the informational aspects. By this I mean that my key focus is how information has been understood, used, dispersed, organized, disciplined etc. in different periods and how the concept of information has changed too.

CV

2017-2019: Vicehead and head of CCC, https://ccc.ku.dk/

2017-: PhD-coordinator

2013-: Associate Professor, INF, UCPH

2008-2013: Associate Professor, RSLIS

2004-2008: Assistant Professor, RSLIS

2001-2004: PhD-fellow, RSLIS

Education

2004: PhD-thesis: "The Danish free public libraries app. 1880-1920: an analysis based on a cultural history approach including aspects of enlightenment and metality with an illustration of the relationship to the state and the public sphere."

2000: MA, History and German, University of Aarhus.

Primary fields of research

• Information history and the history of the information society
• History and theory of surveillance
• History of Knowledge
• Book and library history

Teaching

Undervisning:

• Teorier og traditioner i informations- og kulturstudier (KA)
• Internet og Samfund (BA)

Vejledning:

Jeg vejleder bredt inden for emner under min forskningsprofil: informationshistorie, overvågningshistorie og bibliotekshistoriske emner. Jeg vejleder også gerne opgaver med nutidige diskussioner om information og dens rolle. Jeg træffes efter aftale.