Tim van Gerven
Job description
I am vice dean for research and innovation at the Faculty for Humanities, Social Sciences and Education (HSL) and associate professor at the Department of Archaeology, History and Religious Studies (AHR).
My research is concerned with Scandinavian national movements in a wider transnational, European perspective. I am especially interested in pan-nationalism and its impact on the formulation of national identities. I do not exclusively focus on Scandinavism/Scandinavianism, but also include Pan-Germanism, Greater Netherlandism, Pan-Slavism, Pan-Latinism, Turanism, Pan-Celticism and Anglosaxonism.
I am also interested in the history of failure and study the meaning of failure for historical progress through a focus on the history of hot air ballooning.
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Publications outside Cristin
Book
Scandinavism. Overlapping and Competing Identities in the Nordic World, 1770-1919. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2022. Awarded the Nordic History Book Award 2022 and the NISE Award 2023.
Articles/Book Chapters
"Het verschroeide jasje van de lucht-zeiler - Enkele merkwaardige episodes uit de Deense luchtvaartgeschiedenis, 1805-1811." In Vagebond. Festschrift Henk van der Liet, edited by Suze van der Poll & Arjen Versloot: 52-66. Amsterdam, 2022.
"Scandinavism: Wiring Nationalism in the North." Romanticism: Journal for the Studies of Romanticisms 9 (2020): 125-130.
"Is Nordic Mythology Nordic or National, or Both? Competing National Appropriations of Nordic Mythology in Early Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia." In Northern Myths, Modern Identities, edited by Simon Halink: 49-70. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2019.
"Whose Tordenskjold? The Fluctuating Identities of an Eighteenth-Century Naval Hero in Nineteenth-Century Cultural Nationalisms." Romanticism: Journal for the Studies of Romanticisms 7 (2018): 17-46.
"The Copenhagen Question of 1800: Tracing the Intellectual Roots of Cultural Scandinavism." In Skandinavismen. Visjon og virkning, edited by Ruth Hemstad, Jes Fabricius Møller & Dag Thorkildsen: 21-44. Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2018.
Museum Catalogue
(with Henk van der Liet). "Paradox van de Deense Gouden Eeuw." In Paradox van de Deense Gouden Eeuw, edited by Thijs de Raedt: 11-58. Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 2021.
Research interests
- Nationalism
- Pan-nationalism/macronationalism
- Scandinavism/Scandinavianism
- Cultural memory studies
- Historicism
- Literary History
- National heroes
- History of Failure
- History of Hot Air Ballooning