The Pro Futura Scientia Programme

As the national institute for advanced study in the social and human sciences, SCAS feels it has a special obligation to improve the conditions for younger researchers at the early stages of their academic careers. In addition to hosting postdoctoral scholars within its regular fellowship programme and arranging symposia and summer schools specifically targeting younger scholars, in 1999 the Collegium initiated the Pro Futura Scientia Programme, a national effort made possible by the financial support of RJ (the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation) and STINT (the Swedish Foundation for International Collaboration in Research and Higher Education). Between 1999 and 2004, the Collegium has accepted eight postdoctoral fellows, named Segerstedt Fellows in honor of the first chair of RJ, Torgny Segerstedt. In 2005, the programme was expanded with seven more positions honoring for first 6 chairs of RJ: Torgny Segerstedt, Hans Meijer, Staffan Helmfrid, Kjell Härnqvist, Inge Jonssson and Stig Strömholm. The fellows divide their time between their home university and the Swedish Collegium, and are also able to spend one year abroad at one of the Collegium's sister institutes or an institute of a similar type.

Pro Futura Scientia VI Fellows

Admitted in 2011:
Anandi Hattiangadi (Faculty of Philosophy, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford)
Petter Johansson (Cognitive Science, Department of Philosophy, Lund University)
Kristin Zeiler (Division of Health and Society, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University)
Johan Östling (Department of History, Lund University)


Pro Futura Scientia V Fellows

Admitted in 2009:
Ali Ahmed (School of Management and Economics, Linnæus University, Växjö)
Ericka Johnson (Science and Technology Studies, University of Gothenburg)
Wendelin Reich (Department of Sociology, Uppsala University)

Pro Futura Scientia III and IV Fellows

Admitted in 2007:
Magdalena Bexell (Department of Political Science, Lund University)
Eva Erman (Department of Political Science, Stockholm University)
Peter Hallberg (Department of Political Science, Stockholm University)

Pro Futura Scientia II Fellows

Admitted in 2005:
Gustaf Arrhenius (Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University)
Maria Johansen (Department of History of Science and Ideas, University of Gothenburg)
Staffan Kumlin (Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburgy)
Ingela Nilsson (Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University)
Christer Nordlund (Department of History of Ideas, Umeå University)
Patrik Ström (Department of Geography, University of Gothenburg)
Annika Wallin (Department of Philosophy, Lund University)

Pro Futura Scientia I Fellows

Admitted in 2001:
Christofer Edling (Department of Sociology, Stockholm University)
Lena Halldenius (Department of Philosophy, Lund University)
Coco Norén (Department of Linguistics and Department of Romance Languages, Uppsala University)

Special Baltic Fellow (2001-2002):
Martin Hallik (Department of History, Tartu University)

Associated Fellow (2002-2006):
Anna Cullhed (Department of Literature, Uppsala University)

Admitted in 1999:
Sara Danius (Department of Literature, Uppsala University)
Mikael Nordenmark (Department of Health Sciences, Mid Sweden University, Östersund)
Mats Rosengren (Department of History of Ideas and Science, University of Gothenburg)
Ola Sigurdson (Department of Theology, University of Gothenburg)
Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark (Department of Law, Uppsala University)

Selection Committee
Professor Ash Amin (University of Cambridge)
Professor Craig Calhoun (Social Science Research Council; New York University)
Professor Christina Garsten (Stockholm University)
Professor Peter Gärdenfors (Lund University)
Professor Knud Haakonssen (University of Sussex; University College London)
Professor Peter Hedström (University of Oxford; Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm)
Professor Hans Joas (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies; University of Chicago)
Professor Barbro Klein (SCAS)
Professor Jürgen Kocka (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; University of California, Los Angeles)
Professor Michael Puett (Harvard University)
Professor Shalini Randeria (Universität Zürich)
Professor Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund University)
Professor H. Otto Sibum (Uppsala University)
Professor Björn Wittrock (Chair. SCAS)