CURRICULUM VITAE

SVEINN MÁNI JÓHANNESSON

Sveinn Máni Jóhannesson [email protected] [email protected] Department of History, PMB 351802, 2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37235-1802.

Education hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

2013-2018 Vanderbilt University PhD Candidate in American History Provisional PhD Thesis Title: The Inquiring State: Expert Knowledge, Imperial Expansion and Early American State Formation, 1790-1850

2012-2013 University of Oxford MSt in United States History Grade Class: Distinction Dissertation Title: Reconstituting Coercion: Public Authority, Statecraft and Violence in the Early American Republic, 1786-1809

2008-2011 University of Iceland B.A. in History GPA: 9.04 (scale 0-10) Grade Class: Distinction (highest honours awarded; equalent to Summa Cum Laude)

2003-2007 Hamrahlid College Student Degree (Upper Secondary / Pre-University education degree) GPA: 9.4 (scale 0-10) Grade Class: Distinction (highest honours awarded); Special awards for outstanding academic performance in English, Sociology, History and Economics.

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Professional Experience hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Jan 2011 - EDDA – Center of Excellence at the University of Iceland § Project Manager § Research Assistant: Projects: Geopolitics of the North (Valur Ingimundarson, Professor of History, University of Iceland); and The Icelandic Constituent Council/Assembly (Philippe Urfalino, Senior Researcher at National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Professor at École des hautes études en sciences socials (EHESS), and Director of the Raymond Aron Center for Political and Sociological Studies (CESPRA)).

Jan 2011 - Centre for Women’s and Gender Research at the University of Iceland Oct 2012 § Administrative Assistant

Jan 2011 - Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme at the University of Iceland Oct 2012 § Administrative Assistant

Conferences and Events hhhhhhhnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnhhnnyynnnnnnnn

2012 Conference Coordinator (on behalf of EDDA – Center of Excellence) of the international (10-12.05) conference In/Equalities, Democracy and the Politics of Transition. The conference was held by EDDA – Center of Excellence at the University of Iceland and Raymond Aron Center for Sociological and Political Studies (CESPRA) at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris (EHESS) on 10-12 May 2012. As main project coordinator I worked closely with the organizing committee which consisted of Valur Ingimundarson, Professor of History at the University of Iceland, Irma Erlingsdottir, Director of EDDA, and Philippe Urfalino, Director of CESPRA and Professor at EHESS. Conference participants included: Jon Elster, The Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Sciences, Columbia University, and Professeur Titulaire, Collège de France; Pasquale Pasquino, Distinguished Professor of Politics at NYU and Senior Researcher at CNRS in France; Ruti Teitel, Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law, New York Law School; Bernard Manin, Professor of Political Science, EHESS and New York University; Sylvia Walby, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University; James S. Fishkin, Professor of Communication and Political Science, Stanford University; Helene Landemore, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University. See www.edda.hi.is and https://transition.hi.is/.

2012 An organizer of a symposium, on 13 February 2012 at the University of Iceland, on gender, (13.02) historiography and history textbooks in upper and lower secondary schools in Iceland (on behalf of the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies). Lecturers included Katrín Jakobsdóttir, the Icelandic Minister for Education; Guðmundur Hálfdanarson, Professor of History at the University of Iceland; and Auður Magnúsdóttir, Associate Professor of History

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at Gothenburg University, Sweden.

2011 Conference Coordinator (on behalf of EDDA – Center of Excellence) of the international (21-22.09) symposium Nordic Cold War Cultures on 20-21 September 2011 at the University of Iceland. It was sponsored by NORCENCOWAR (the Nordic and North/Central European Network of Cold War Researchers), EDDA – Center of Excellence, and the Historical Institute at the University of Iceland.

2011 Conference Coordinator (on behalf of EDDA – Center of Excellence) of the international (2-3.06) conference Crisis and Renewal. Welfare States, Democracy and Equality in Hard Times. The conference was hosted by EDDA – Center of Excellence, in collaboration with the Nordic Centers of Excellence REASSESS and Nordwell, on 2-3 June 2011. Keynote speakers included Michael Freeden, Professor of Politics, University of Oxford; Christopher Lloyd, Professor in Economic History, University of New England; and Diane Perrons, Professor in Economic Geography and Gender Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Grants & Scholarships hhhhhhhnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnhhnnnnnnnnnnn

2013- University Graduate Fellowship, Vanderbilt University 2018

2013- Departmental Fellowship, Vanderbilt University 2018

2012- Clarendon Fund Scholarship, University of Oxford 2013

2012 The Bank of Iceland (I. Íslandsbanki)

2010 Student Innovation Fund of the Icelandic Centre for Research (RANNIS)

Scholarly Presentations hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

- “’The Mastership and Its Fruits’: Social Knowledge, the American Freedmen Inquiry Commission and the Problem of Reunion”. Lecture given at the BrANCH 2013 Postgraduate and Early Career Conference, University College London (UCL), 13 April 2013.

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- “An Introduction to Halldors Bjarnason’s History of Colonial Iceland”. Presentation given at a symposium organized in the memory of Halldor Bjarnason, Associate Professor of History at the University of Iceland, in April 2011.

- “Innovation, Development and Local Democracy - The Reykjavik City Service Centers 2005-2010”. Presentation given at a symposium organized by the City of Reykjavik in relation to the city’s service centers in November 2010.

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References and letters of recommendation available on request.

- Gary Gerstle, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University ([email protected])

- Peter Thompson, Departmental Lecturer, University of Oxford ([email protected])

- Nicholas Cole, Departmental Lecturer, University of Oxford ([email protected])

- Valur Ingimundarson, Professor of History, University of Iceland ([email protected]; +354 5254223)

- Irma Erlingsdottir, Associate Professor of French Studies, and Director of EDDA – Center of Excellence, University of Iceland ([email protected]; +354 5255405; +354 8222371)

Languages hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnhhnnyynnnnnnnnn

Icelandic (native); English; Spanish; Danish; German.

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