... received his Ph.D. in history of science and ideas from Umeå
University in 2000. After that he has been a visting research fellow
in the School of Social Sciences, University of Sussex (2001-2002) and
in The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences,
SCASSS (2002), and held a position as a researcher at the Swedish Institute
for Studies in Education and Research, SISTER, Stockholm (2001-2003).
Since 2004, Wisselgren is a researcher in the Department of History
of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University.
After his dissertation Samhällets kartläggare: Lorénska
stiftelsen, den sociala frågan och samhällsvetenskapens formering
i Sverige 1830-1920 (Mapping Society: The Lorén Foundation, the
Social Question, and the Formation of a Social Science Discourse in
Sweden, 1830-1920), published in 2000, Wisselgren has written articles
on different themes such as the historiographical construction of disciplinary
identities, situated networks in the history of universities, the public
aspects of the social sciences, and the history of the social reportage.
Currently, he is working on an international comparative project on
the gendered aspects of social scientific knowledge production in Britain
and Sweden, to be finished in 2006.
Selected publications
”’Ett talrikt (företrädesvis kvinnligt) auditorium’:
Maxim Kovalevsky och samhällsvetenskapens publiker”, in Anders
Ekström (ed.), Den mediala vetenskapen (Nora: Bokförlaget
Nya Doxa, 2004), 253-271.
“Det sociala reportaget – journalistik, litteratur eller
vetenskap?”, in Anna Meeuwisse & Hans Swärd (eds.), Den
ocensurerade verkligheten i reportage, bild och undersökningar
(Stockholm: Carlssons, 2003), 81-102.
“Universitetens kulturella sammanhang: Platsbundna nätverk
och lokala strategier”, in Sverker Sörlin (ed.), Kulturen
i kunskapssamhället: Om kultursektorns tillväxt och kulturpolitikens
utmaningar (Nora: Bokförlaget Nya Doxa, 2003), 123-142.
”Sociologin som inte blev av?: Gustaf Steffen och tidig svensk
socialvetenskap”, Sociologisk Forskning (1997: 2-3),
75-116.
homepage: http://www.idehist.uu.se/Per_Wisselgren.htm