Sidsel Eriksen
  • Karen Blixens Plads 8

    2300 København S

1981 …2019

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Primary fields of research

Alcohol production, -consumption, -culture, -politics, -treatment and -science. Marginalization, social biography, urban history and urbanization. Social movements and social polícy.

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Personal data:
Sidsel Eriksen, b. 1958, cand. phil. University of Aarhus 1984, Ph.D. University of Copenhagen 1992.

Assistant at Statens Erhvervshistoriske Arkiv in Århus.

Research fellow 1987, research assistant 1994, research lecturer1997, senior lecturer (substitute) 2000. Since 1992 also external lecturer (teaching and supervision activities) at the Department of History, University of Copenhagen.

Research fellow in Department of History, Uppsala University (Sweden) in the autumn term 1986; by Nordic Counsil for Research in Alcohol and Drugs in Helsinki (Finland) in April 1989; at the Department of History, University of Gothenburg (Sweden) in the spring term1990 and in the spring term 1991, in USA (Berkeley) in april-may1992.

The Research projects have untill summer 2000 continuously been financed by external project sources from Carlsbergfondet (The Carlsberg Foundation), Kirkeministeriet (Department of Church Affairs), Sundhedsstyrelsen (Department of Health), Helsefonden (Health foundation), Humanistisk- og Sundhedsvidenskabeligt Forskningsråd (The Danish Humanistic- and The Danish Health Research Counsil), Nordiska Nämnden för Alkohol- och Drogforskning (Nordic Counsil for Research in Alcohol and Drugs) and Forskerakademiet (Danish Research Academy).

Current research

alcohol, industry and science, marginalization, social- and religious movements,

Knowledge of languages

Danish, Swedish, English, German, French

Fields of interest

Alt - undtagen kongehusets gøren og laden

Teaching

Danmarks og Nordens historie 1800-1950,  Demokratiseringsprocesser i et komparativt perspektiv, Rusmiddelhistorie: narkotika, kaffe, brændevin og tobak, Marginalisering, kategorisering og kontrol, Kvinde- og kønshistorie, Sociale- og folkelige bevægelser i Danmark og Norden, Civil society og social forandring,  Biografi som socialhistorisk genre: aktører og strukturer og personlighedens historie.

Lokal- og mikrohistoriske problemstillinger,  The Scandinavian Welfare Project in Comparison 1850-1980 (for udenlandske studenter),  Psykiatriens historie (eksperimenterende),  Sundhed og sygdom,  Velfærdsstat og samfundets sociale sammenhængskraft, Velfærdsmodeller og velfærdsforskning, Metodeseminar omkring social- og kulturhistoriske emner,  Social movements in a comparative perspective (for udenlandske studenter).

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • social movements
  • urban history
  • railway towns
  • Comparative Welfare state
  • comparative nordic history
  • Sweden 1800-2000
  • biography
  • consumerism, consumer culture
  • industrial entrepreneurs
  • temperance movement
  • comparative social politics
  • addictive drugs
  • religious movements
  • relation between industry and science
  • branding
  • advertisments
  • alcohol as symbol
  • alcohol culture
  • alcohol
  • kvindehistorei
  • gender history
  • social democracy
  • relation between actor and structure