WWII, the Cold War and how these events have influenced the present's stories about them. Especially interested in collective memory, social history and the processes that shape the construction of historical narratives. Fascinated about the coincidences that make stories of the past develop in this or that direction. Also interested in the use of theoretical perspectives in historical science.

Past and present of Nordic colonialism, Greenland, Sápmi

Church and Society in the 14th–18th Centuries

Ecclesiastical History

Reformation

Bones conducts research on security policy and international relations in the High North and the Arctic. Examples of topics include relations between small states and great powers, espionage, subversion and influence operations, counterintelligence, resistance, polar politics, alliance policy, deterrence/reassurance, and how societies are coming to terms with the past. His research spans the period from the 1930s to the present day. Bones teaches and supervises on a range of topics related to Norwegian and international history in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.