Jarle Simensen – Curriculum Vitae

Education and Degrees

Professional Career

Research Assistant, Department of History, University of Oslo 1965-67.
Research Fellow, Norwegian Research Council and Institute of Social Research, Oslo 1968-1973.
Associate Professor, University of Trondheim 1973.
Professor, University of Trondheim,1980-2004.
Adjunct Professor, Department of History, University of Oslo, 1996-2007.
Research Professor, History of Norwegian Development Aid, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, 1998-2002.

Honours

Member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Science and Letters (Det Kongelige Norske Videnskapers Selskab), Trondheim, 1982.
Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, (Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi) Oslo, 1995, leader of the history section 2002-2006.
Honorary Plaque and Citation, Restoration of Kyebi Palace Archives, Akyem, Ghana 2004.

Organizations

Vice-President for international affairs, Norwegian National Union of Students, 1960-61.
Founding member and Secretary of the International Academic Aid Fund (“Studentenes og Akademikernes Internasjonale Hjelpefond”, SAIH), 1961-1963.
Member of the Norwegian National Commission for UNESCO, 1964-68.
Editor of the series “Orion Utsyn”, Det Norske Samlaget, 1965-1970.
Member of the Council of the Norwegian World Federalist Movement, “Én Verden”, 2002.
Member of the Steering Committee for the Nordic Conference on Historical Method, 1974- 1979.
Member of the Research Council of the Norwegian Agency for International Development (NORAD), 1976-1980.
Chairman of the Department of History, University of Trondheim 1978-79.
Norwegian editor, Scandinavian Journal of History, 1980-84.
Member of the Council of the Norwegian Agency for International Development, 1985-87.
Member of the Humanities section of the Norwegian Research Council, 1982-90, Central Board member 1990-92.
Chairman of the Norwegian Historians' Association, 1989-90.
Pro-Rector of the University of Trondheim 1989-1992.
Member of the Steering Committee for The History of Norwegian Foreign Policy (1992-1997).
Consultant to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, 1997-2006.

International

Member of the Nordic Research Committee for International Politics and Peace Research, 1973-78.
Member of the Fontes Historiae Africanae Committee of the International Academic Union, 1974-78.Member of the organizing committee for the European Science Council programme "Expansion of European Law",
1986-88.
Member of the Norwegian Research Council for the Humanities 1983-1989. Responsible for the establishment of the exchange agreement with Maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris and of the German-Norwegian Scholarship and Exchange Programme (Ruhrgas)1985-1990.
Board member of the Norwegian Research Council 1989-1993.
Chairman of the Steering Committee of the German-Norwegian History Programme (Ruhrgas) 1985-1990.
Initiator and coordinator of the Programme of history cooperation Trondheim-Legon, Ghana 1991 (Norwegian Universities’ Aid Programme, NUFU).
Initiator and coordinator of the Programme of cooperation Trondheim-University of Durban, Westville, 1994 (Norwegian Universities’ Aid Programme, NUFU).
Visiting Professor, Maison de sciences de l’homme, Paris, spring 1986.
Visiting sdcholar, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, 1981-82, 1988-89, 1995-96.
Guest lecturer, University of Xingdao, China, October 2003.

Addresses

University of Oslo: Home address:

Department of History Tuengveien 24

P.O.Box 1008, Blindern 0374 Oslo

Tel: - 47 22855050 Tel: 47- 99426350