Byron Zachary Rom-Jensen

Postdoctoral Fellow - Historie
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Email b.z.rom-jensen@iakh.uio.no
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Visiting address Niels Treschows hus
Postal address Postboks 1008 Blindern 0315 Oslo

Academic interests

My research has examined the spread and impact of the Nordic model in American and global contexts in the 20th century. Currently, I am leading a project on American-Scandianvian labor networks in the Cold War. Amongst my research interests are histories of labor movements, policy transfer, Nordic cooperation, and the United States.

Background

Born in the United States in 1988. Graduated with bachelor degrees in English Literature and History from the University of Maryland (2010). Graduated with a masters degree in International and Global History from Aarhus University (2015). Awarded Ph.D. in History in 2018 from Aarhus University. Have worked as postdoctoral researcher on the project "Nordic model(s) in the global circulation of ideas, 1970-2020," funded by the Independent Resarch Council of Denmark, at Aarhus University and as University Lecturer in Nordic Studies at the University of Helsinki.

 

Tags: Historie, Arbeiderbevegelsens historie, transatlantiske studier, nordiske studier, Samtidshistorie

Publications

  • Rom-Jensen, Byron Zachary; Hellenes, Andreas Mørkved; Hilson, Mary & Marklund, Carl (2022). Modelizing the Nordics: Transdiscursive Migrations of Nordic Models, c. 1965-2020. Scandinavian Journal of History. ISSN 0346-8755. doi: 10.1080/03468755.2022.2083225.
  • Rom-Jensen, Byron Zachary (2022). Enthusiastic Proselytisers: Translating the Swedish Gender Policy Model in Cold War United States. Contemporary European History. ISSN 0960-7773. doi: 10.1017/S0960777321000400.
  • Rom-Jensen, Byron Zachary (2021). ‘A cross between Batman and a public ear’ How the United States transformed the ombudsman. In Byrkjeflot, Haldor; Mjøset, Lars; Mordhorst, Mads & Petersen, Klaus (Ed.), The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models, Ideas and Images. Routledge. ISSN 9781003156925.
  • Rom-Jensen, Byron Zachary (2018). Yellow-Blue Collars: American Labor and the Pursuit of Swedish Policy, 1961-1963. American Studies in Scandinavia. ISSN 0044-8060. doi: 10.22439/asca.v50i2.5777.
  • Dosdall, Henrik & Rom-Jensen, Byron Zachary (2017). Letting Lehman Go: Critique, Social Change, and the Demise of Lehman Brothers. Historical Social Research. ISSN 0172-6404. doi: 10.12759/hsr.42.2017.3.196-217.
  • Rom-Jensen, Byron Zachary (2017). A Model of Social Security? The political usage of Scandinavia in Roosevelt’s New Deal. Scandinavian Journal of History. ISSN 0346-8755. doi: 10.1080/03468755.2017.1336598.

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  • Rom-Jensen, Byron Zachary (2022). Walter A. Jackson. Alva and Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden and America, 1898-1945: Unsparing Honesty. New York and London: Routledge, 2021. . Swedish-American Historical Quarterly. ISSN 0730-028X.
  • Rom-Jensen, Byron Zachary (2016). Saving the American Farmer: The Impact of Danish Agricultural Practices on American Policy Direction. The Bridge. ISSN 2572-4479.

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