Faculty Member, Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture
Associate Senior Lecturer
About
Finn Arne Jørgensen is Associate Senior Lecturer (tenure track) in History of Technology and Environment at Umeå University, Sweden. He has a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2007), where he also had a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Research Council of Norway. In 2005-2006 he was a visiting researcher at Department of Science, Technology, and Society, University of Virginia, USA.
He is the author of Making a Green Machine: The Infrastructure of Beverage Container Recycling (Rutgers University Press, 2011). He is currently working on a book manuscript on history of the Norwegian hytte (leisure cabin). He is currently co-editing two edited volumes - the first is a critical examination of the Norwegian leisure cabin, seen from the social sciences and the humanities, co-edited with Thomas Berker and Helen Jøsok Gansmo and under contract with Tapir University Press; the second is a exploration of the analytical and methodological intersections between environmental history and science and techology studies, coedited with Dolly Jørgensen and Sara Pritchard, under contract with Pittsburg University Press.
He actively participates in the international history of technology and environment research communities. He serves on the Executive Council of the Society for History of Technology and on the Board of the European Society for Environmental History. In 2009, he founded the Nordic Environmental History Network (NEHN), funded by Nordforsk. He is an editor for the H-Sci-Med-Tech mailing list, the world's leading discussion list for the history of science, medicine, and technology.
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