Research areas

Anders Bo Rasmussen’s research examines transnational relations between the United States and Europe from the middle of the 19^th century to the present.

He has published on immigration history, slavery, capitalism, cultural diplomacy, and Americanization. His book Civil War Settlers: Scandinavians, Citizenship, and American Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2022) won the Danish American Heritage Society Book Award and is now available as Open Access. Rasmussen's work on American history, culture, and society has been published with media outlets such as Washington Post, NDR, Weekendavisen, Kristeligt Dagblad, and Politiken among other.

Access to Civil War Settlers available here:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/civil-war-settlers/FA57A6A7FAFBB55A40482369AEA61330 .

CV

Anders Bo Rasmussen
Associate Professor of US History
Center for American Studies, University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M
Phone: +45 6550 4664; email: [email protected]

Education
2011 (April 15): PhD in Journalism Studies, SDU.
2006 (August 17): MA (cand.mag) in American Studies (Major) and Journalism (Minor), SDU.
2003 (June): BA in History, SDU.

Current and most recent positions
2018-: Associate Professor, Center for American Studies, SDU.
2017-2018: National Media Museum curator.
2013-2017: Assistant Professor of US History, Center for American Studies, SDU.
2012-2013: Teaching Assistant, Center for American Studies, SDU.
2011-2013: External Lecturer, Center for Journalism, SDU.
2011: External Illustration Editor for Tom Buk-Swienty: 1864 i billeder (1864 Illustrated). Gyldendal, 2012.
2007-2010 Ph.D. fellow, Institute for Political Science, Center for Journalism, SDU.
2006-2016: Freelance journalist for TV 2 Danmark.
2006-2007: Teaching Assistant in American Studies, SDU.

Selected Activities and Awards

2024-: Head of Research (forskningsleder) at the Center for American Studies, SDU

2023: Nominated for Weekendavisens Litteraturpris for Pio – Flugten til Amerika

2023: Recipient of the Danish American Heritage Society Book Award for Civil War Settlers.

2022-: Invited panel participant at “Folkemødet” for union organized debate on American labor history.

2022: Recipient and PI of DFF-Research Project 1 Grant (“Transplanting Socialism” 2,8 million DKK)

2022: Visiting scholar at Northwestern University’s Department of History.

2022-: Vice President of Danish Association for American Studies

2021-2022: Recipient of Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship (732,000 DKK)

2019-2023: Executive Editor of American Studies in Scandinavia

2019-2023: Executive Committee member Nordic Association for American Studies

2019-2024: Health and Safety Representative (arbejdsmiljørepræsentant), Department of History, SDU

2019-2020: Book review editor of American Studies in Scandinavia.

2018: Franklin D. Scott Prize awarded by the Swedish-American Historical Quarterly.

2016-2017: J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship for research and teaching at New York University.

2016: Niels William and Dagmar Olsson Visiting Scholar Award from Augustana College.

2016: Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries Grant to Scholars.

2014: The State Historical Society of Iowa’s Research Grant.

2013: Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, Department of History.

2013: Recipient and PI of DFF Postdoc Stipendium (”For God and Country”, 1,8 million DKK).

Project and Research Management Experience

Since 2022, Rasmussen has managed the DFF-funded research project “Transplanting Socialism” focused on Scandinavian-American labor history and he is currently enrolled in Copenhagen Business School’s Research Management course to build on the project management competencies he has already developed. Over the past decade, Rasmussen has managed and co-managed projects related to Danish research, exhibits, and cultural heritage, while working at SDU and the national Media Museum.

Selected Conferences and Invited Talks

2024: Invited talk at the University of Oslo on their “Experiencing American Democracy” project.

2024: Historiske Dage: Interviewed by author Niels Krause-Kjær about Pio – flugten til Amerika.

2023: Bogforum: Panel talk with Member of Parliament Dan Jörgensen on Pio – flugten til Amerika.

2022: Workshop presentation of “Louis Pio’s White Vision” at Northwestern University.

2022: C19 Conference, Coral Gables, Florida, presiding over panel “Scandinavian Reconstructions.”

2021: Augustana College, Illinois invited online talk on the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.

2020: Bildmuseet, Umeå invited online talk “From Civil War to Civil Rights”

2020: Malmö University invited online talk “BLM Transnational Histories”

2019: Salzburg Global Seminar: American Studies Association Symposium (invited scholar).

2019: “The 1862 Dakota War: Media and Memory” at Nordic Association for American Studies Conference in Bergen.

2018: University of California, San Diego, invited online talk on “American Sports and Culture Wars”

2017: “Should the Freed Negroes Have the Vote?” paper presented at the Nordic Association for American Studies Conference in Odense.

2016 Southern Historical Association, Tampa, Florida, presiding over panel “Slaves of the State.”

2016 University of California, San Diego, invited online class talk on Comparing Media Systems.

2016 Historiske Dage, invited talk on the American Civil War.

2014 Bogmessen, invited talk on the American Civil War.

2014 “Lincoln and Seward on Colonization in Danish St. Croix” (with Michael Douma) at the Society of Civil War Historians Conference in Baltimore.

2013 “An Act of Colonization” paper presented at The Center for Civil War Research Conference at the University of Mississippi.

Other Scientific Qualifications

Journalism and Media Studies

Memberships and International Network

2022-: member of C19

2021-: member of Immigration & Ethnic History Society

2017-: member of the Organization of American Historians.

2014-: member of The Society of Civil War Historians.

2007-: member of both the Danish and Nordic Association for American Studies.

Parental leave (9 months in all)

2015-2017

Research Interests

C19: American Civil War and Reconstruction, immigration history, gilded age, class, race, ethnicity, and transnational diplomacy.

Americanization, media sociology, narrative nonfiction, historical methods, war and culture.