Christina Garsten new principal at SCAS

Christina Garsten has been appointed new principal at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS). She succeeds Björn Wittrock, who was one of the three founding directors of the Collegium. Garsten will take office on 15 August, 2018.

“Being entrusted with the opportunity to lead and develop a research environment such as SCAS is highly inspiring and challenging. In a changing and globalizing world, academic freedom and qualified research need to be defended and made visible. SCAS has a significant role to fulfil in this regard, at both national and international levels” says Christina Garsten.

She is already familiar with the activities of the Collegium. She was a Fellow in residence in the autumn term of 2000, and has been a member of the selection committee of the Collegium’s Pro Futura Scientia programme for many years.

“We are delighted to have recruited Christina Garsten for this important position. She is a well-established researcher with extensive leadership experience, and possesses all the right qualities to lead the development of SCAS and to strengthen the unique position of the Collegium, both nationally and internationally”, says Anders Malmberg, chairman of the board of SCAS and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University.

Christina Garsten is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University and Chair of the Executive Board of Score (Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research). Her research is oriented towards organisational anthropology, with a particular focus on globalisation processes, their cultural and social dynamics, and the emergence of new forms of transnational governance. Her current research is focusing on American and European think tanks and their role in the formation of arenas for global politics. Garsten has been a visiting scholar at several universities abroad, including Stanford University, University of Cambridge and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

For more information, please contact;
Prof. Anders Malmberg, chairman of the board of SCAS, tel.: + 46 70-4250175 email: anders.malmberg@uu.se
Prof. Christina Garsten, incoming principal of SCAS, tel: + 46 70-534 06 24, email: christina.garsten@socant.su.se

The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) is a national institute for advanced study, located at Uppsala University. SCAS is a member of the SIAS group of nine leading institutes in the world, including IAS Princeton and Wissenschaftskolleg (Berlin) as well as in the network of 22 European institutes. It is a unique institution that provides optimal conditions for scholars, after a highly selective process, to pursue curiosity-driven research in a context of interdisciplinary and international dialogue and cooperation. Approximately three quarters of the scholars are funded through external grants. The largest programme is Pro Futura Scientia, a programme for exceptionally promising early career-scholars beyond the postdoctoral stage. SCAS is located in Linneanum and the Prefect Villa in the Botanic garden in Uppsala and in the nearby Villa Therese Andersson.