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Bo Stråth is since 1 July, 2007 Academy of Finland Distinguished Professor in Nordic, European and World History at the Helsinki University. 1997-2007 he was professor of contemporary history at the European University Institute, Florence and 1990-1996 professor of history at Göteborgs universitet. Visiting fellow/professor at Universität Kiel and Glasgow University (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow), the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the Collegium for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (SCASSS) in Uppsala and at Aarhus universitet, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Universität Bielefeld, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am Main, Lunds universitet, Saitama Daigaku, Stockholms universitet (SCORE) and Tokyo Daigaku (Todai, Japan Foundation Fellow). Since 1996 member of the International Committeee for Social History. Founding member of the European Society for the History of Political Thought and member of several advisory boards and editorial boards.

In the framework of his chair at the Helsinki University his research concentrates on two projects, Between Restoration and Revolution, National Constitutions and Global Law: an Alternative View on the European Century 1815-1914 (EReRe), co-directed with Martti Koskenniemi; and Conceptual History and Global Translations: The Euro-Asian and African Semantics of the Social and the Economic.

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