13 Facts About Bjorn Thomassen

Bjørn Thomassen was born on 1968, Denmark and is an anthropologist and social scientist.

Bjorn Thomassen is associate professor at Roskilde University in the Department of Society and Globalisation.

Bjorn Thomassen has written non-scholarly articles for the Danish weekly, "Weekendavisen".

Bjorn Thomassen examined how cultural and national identities are constructed through conflicting collective memories in a political and cultural environment defined by historically changing borders.

Bjorn Thomassen wrote his PhD thesis as a narrative evolving from the life-stories of self-identified Italians from Istria who for various reasons chose to leave Tito's Yugoslavia and moved “back” to Italy.

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Bjorn Thomassen is principally interested in how anthropological ideas and approaches can inform political and social theory and the study of contemporary politics.

Bjorn Thomassen has in several publications explored the concept of liminality and its potential for understanding change and transition in modern societies.

In recent work Bjorn Thomassen has sought to develop an anthropological approach to political revolutions.

Bjorn Thomassen has engaged the axial age debate from the perspective of anthropology.

Bjorn Thomassen employs anthropological approaches to history and politics as produced and reproduced through memory politics via rituals, symbols and collective commemorations.

Together with former student, Derrick Fiedler, Bjorn Thomassen has revisited the work of Arnold Toynbee and argued for its contemporary relevance.

Bjorn Thomassen is a founding editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed academic journal International Political Anthropology.

Bjorn Thomassen's career includes over ten years of experience in teaching and student advising at institutions in Europe including the University of Copenhagen.