About

I am a Swedish historian born in 1992, working primarily with social history. My doctoral thesis were defended at Malmö University in june 2023 and dealt with how policy-makers at state and local level created the social category of immigrants during the last three decades of 20th century. After my thesis defence I have worked as an associated post-doc as well as a senior lecturer at Linneaus, Lund and Malmö university. 

My posts are often inspired by my ongoing research. This has been financed through my employments as a lecturer as well as through external grants. Until 2026 I have received generous grants from:

* The Ebbe Kock Foundation - approved 140 844 sek for the project 'Municipal Nazism in Skåne 1930–1939', may 2026

* National Archivists Ingvar Anderssons Foundation - approved 80 000 sek for the project 'Archives on social media: narratives of inclusion and exclusion' - april 2026

* The Ebbe Kock foundation - approved 155 000 sek for the project "the politics of intimacy: marriage norms and preventives in Scanian newspapers 1910–1938" (may 2024)

* National Archivists Ingvar Anderssons Foundation - approved 138 000 sek for the project "Archives in the 21st century - appraisal before digital publication of cultural heritage records"  (april 2024)

* The Ebbe Kock foundation - approved 145 000 sek for the project "The right to lust: the political mobilization of the sexual reform league in Malmö 1933–1945" (may 2023)

* Helge Ax:son Johnsons Foundation - approved 100 000 sek for the project "Better love without children than children without love - the philosophy of Hinke Bergegren 1910–1938" (june 2023)












On a private note, I live in the outskirts of Malmö with the love of my life. I regularly practice running and martial arts, and am firm believer that world would be a better place if it was filled with more taken well cared for dogs. If you want to reach out, please contact me through linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-bauer-2b79bb10a/

Popular posts from this blog

Trends in historical research - or are we in a normal mode of the current paradigm?

Decades ago, philosopher Thomas Kuhn introduced the idea of paradigm change . What Kuhn argued was that science goes through cycles: in some phases, many things change at once, while in others, science is essentially “settling in,” with few major breakthroughs taking place. A colleague of mine asked me a few days ago whether there are any tensions within the discipline of history regarding theory, and when I thought about it, my answer was basically no. During my time as a historian, I remember people talking about the debates of the early 2000s surrounding the rise of postmodern theories. I began studying history in 2011, and at that time gender history was perhaps no longer new but still very much debated. Fifteen years later, it is clear that gender studies and the influence of women’s history made a decisive breakthrough in the late 2000s and are now an integral part of modern historical scholarship. However, I cannot think of a similarly decisive shift in the past ten years. The...
Read more

Democracy, right wing populism and social media

In a very simplistic way, humankind can be said to have improved public conversation in society through two important inventions. The first dates back to the 15th century, when Johannes Gutenberg launched the printing press and thereby made it possible to spread ideas rapidly across Western Europe. Gutenberg’s invention also led to increased literacy among the population, often supported by Protestant churches that aimed for people to be able to read (though not necessarily to critically read) Luther’s Catechism . Public conversation, however, also underwent rapid changes when the freedom of the press, radio, and television were introduced. In this paradigm, media was still controlled by groups able to pool resources, making it difficult for the average Joe to take part in public discourse. It was only at the dawn of the 21st century that this became fully possible with the rise of the internet, and in the twilight of the early 2000s this was further expanded through social media. I...
Read more

Algorithms, AI and towards a dystopia?

Image
A few days ago, I attended an interesting seminar with scholars at Linnaeus University, where I am currently employed. The subject was cultural policy and how cultural politics are undergoing transformation, not least due to the ongoing war. Another theme that was explored concerned algorithms and AI, and as I left the seminar I began to reflect on how the world is currently being challenged by the rise of what might be called “everyday algorithms and AI”. Basically, almost all information that citizens encounter on social media today is curated by algorithms. This can, in turn, sometimes lead to dangerous outcomes, such as the material one encounters gradually becoming more and more radical. This happens because algorithms measure both the time users spend engaging with information and how they interact with it. This is hardly surprising, and numerous scholars have warned about this development. With the rise of AI, algorithms have also become an increasingly integral part of everyday...
Read more