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Professor Guðmundur Hálfdánarson

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Academic discipline: History

Guðmundur Hálfdanarson has a BA in history and archaeology from the universities of Lund in Sweden and Iceland in Reykjavík, MA in history from the University of Iceland and PhD in history from Cornell University. He currently holds the title of Jón Sigurðsson professor of history at the University of Iceland. His main field of research is Icelandic and European cultural, political, and social history, with a primary focus on theories and practices of nationalism in the 19th and 20th centuries.