You can download my cv here.
* academic employment
2024-2026 – Postdoctoral Researcher on climate technologies as a part of the project ” Promises of Promethean Technologies: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Danish Climate Politics” funded by the Danish Independent Research Fund. Here, I will place a substantial part of my activities at the Centre for Sustainable Futures at the University of Copenhagen
2019-2020 – Student Assistant at CoRE – Copenhagen Centre for Health Research in the Humanities, University of Copenhagen
2018 – Teaching Assistant in the course “IT, Globalization and Culture” at the IT-University in Copenhagen
2015-2018 – Student Assistant at the digitalization project “Danmark set fra Luften” at the Danish Royal Library, Copenhagen
* education
2021-2024 PhD, Dep. of Language and Culture, University of Stavanger.
Thesis title Submergence: Environmental Justice and the Specter of Chemical Pollution
– Main Supervisor: Finn Arne Jørgensen
– Co-supervisor: Hugo Reinert
– Phd-committee: Martin Melosi, Sarah Hamilton & Peder Roberts
2018-2020 MA, History, UCPH (minor in Anthropology)
Master thesis Efter Ruinen: Transformationen af Hedeland fra industrial ruin til rekreativt landskab
– Supervisor: Dorthe Gert Simonsen
2015-2018 BA, History, UCPH (minor in Anthropology).
* publication list
published:
accepted/in press:
Sebastian Lundsteen, “In Praise of Ambivalence: Reflections on Experiences of Pollution and Remediation.” In Ambivalences of Ecological Transformation: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities.
Melina Antonia Buns & Sebastian Lundsteen, “Perspectives on Environmental Justice in Scandinavian Green Transitions.” In Green Transitions
Sebastian Lundsteen, “Not True, Not Not True: Rumours about Pollution in Denmark.” Submitted (Abstract accepted)
* grants, scholarships, and awards
2023 Andrea von Braun Stiftung for the “Troubled Waters” Graphic Novel Trilogy in which one installment is based on my dissertation
2023 Visiting Scholar at Penn Program for Environmental Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania
2023 Ph.D. Mobility Scholarship Grant, University of Stavanger,
2022 Workshop funding: Perspectives on Environmental Justice in Scandinavian Green Transitions, University of Stavanger.
2021 Fully financed PhD-scholarship, University of Stavanger
* conferences, seminars, workshops.
I have participated in approximately 20 seminars, conferences, and workshops in Europe, functioning both as presenter and session chair. Among them, the European Society of Environmental History and the Inaugural Conference for the Doctoral Program in Environmental Humanities at Augsburg/Rachel Carson Center. Furthermore, in the summer of 2023, I have been invited to several roundtables ranging from “Sustainable Academia,” “Critical Data Justice and Environmental Justice,” and “Developing New Perspectives on Danish Environmental History.” Furthermore, in the fall of 2023, I was an invited speaker to the “Mis/placing matter: Vertical Practices and (hi)stories of Power” workshop in Augsburg and offered to facilitate a class teaching on Environmental Justice at the University of Drexel, Pennsylvania.
* responsibilities
- 2024-2027: European Society of Environmental History Next Generation Action Team (ESEH – NextGATe) cohort.
- 2022-2024: PhD-representative at the Research Ethical Committee, University of Stavanger.
- 2022- 2024: PhD-representative at the Advisory Board for The Greenhouse – An Environmental Humanities Centre at the UiS
* other
- 2023 Co-founder of the “Danish Network for Modern Environmental History”
- 2023 Co-founder and co-host on the podcast “Challenging Nordic Innocence”
- 2023 Member of “Det Grønne Forskningsnetværk” (The Green Research Network)
- 2023 Social and Spatial Justice Network at the University of Stavanger
- 2022 – 2023 Co-founder of TReN, Toxicity Research Network (Now on hiatus)
- 2021 Member of Historians for Future
- 2021 Affiliate of Norwegian Researcher School in the Environmental Humanities
- Peer-reviewed for the following journals Political Geography, NiCHE, Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, Water History, Anthropology and Aging, Journal of Political Geography, and H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
