Per Anders Rudling

Per Anders Rudling (born 11 April 1974) is a Swedish-American historian and an associate professor in the Department of History at Lund University (Sweden). He specializes in the areas of nationalism and memory politics in Eastern Europe. Rudling holds a Master of Arts degree in Russian from Uppsala University (1998), a Master of Arts degree in history from San Diego State University (US) (2003), a Ph.D. in history from the University of Alberta (Canada) (2009), and completed a post-doc at the University of Greifswald, Germany. 2013 Rudling was appointed as Associated Professor in History by Lund University. In summer semester 2015, Rudling was Visiting Professor at the Institute of Eastern European History at University of Vienna. From December 2015 to June 2019, he was Visiting Senior Fellow in History at the National University of Singapore. From July 2019 to June 2021, he was Research Associate at the Center for Baltic and East European Studies at Södertörn University in Huddinge with Focus on Belarus. In 2019, Rudling received a five-year scholarship from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. The Wallenberg scholarship is considered the highest and most prestigious academic award for young researchers in Sweden. The scholarship, worth around 160,000 euros a year, will be used to study Ukrainian "long-distance nationalism" of the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada, focusing on the formation of a "collective memory" through the Great Famine of 1932-33 and the anti-Soviet resistance in the immediate post-war years.