This year's Hesselgren professorship to the School of Global Studies
News: Feb 04, 2010
Christine Sylvester, Professor of Women's Studies/International Relations at Lancaster University, UK, is this year's recipient of the Kerstin Hesselgren professorship. The guest professorship, awarded yearly by the Swedish Research Council to a distinguished female researcher, will be placed at the School of Global Studies at the University of Gothenburg.
Christine Sylvester is a highly productive researcher who has earned the attention of several leading publishers and journals. Her research explores gender in relation to war and conflict, which is quite unusual, explains the Council in their motivation.
In 1922, Kerstin Hesselgren became the first woman in the Swedish Parliament.