Jonas Fossli Gjersø

Associate Professor

Jonas Fossli Gjersø
Faculty of Arts and Education
Department of Cultural Studies and Languages
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Jonas Fossli Gjersø is an Associate Professor of History researching subjects related to empire, energy and abolition. His PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2015) considered British imperialism in East Africa, whilst his postdoctoral research project at the University of Oslo investigated Norwegian and international petroleum history. His publications include The Scramble for East Africa (2015) and The Great Leap Offshore (2023). 

Dr Gjersø has taught international, imperial and economic history at the LSE, Goldsmiths - University of London, the University of Oslo, BI Norwegian Business School and at the University of Stavanger (UiS). His op-eds and book reviews have featured in International Affairs, Historisk Tidsskrift, Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning, OpenDemocracy, Impakter Magazine, Dagsavisen, Aftenbladet and he has appeared on BBC World, NRK Dagsnytt 18, NRK P2 Ekko, NRK P2 Studio 2, NRK Rogaland, Land & Climate Review Podcast. 

At the UiS he teaches modern history (emneansvarlig for (L)HIS165 Moderne historie), technological and cultural history (faglærer for HIS185 Innføring i historiske emner - teknologiens kulturhistorie), the undergraduate dissertation seminar (HIS290 Bacheloroppgave i historie) and the postgraduate dissertation seminar (MHIMAS-1 21H Historie og historiedidaktikk masteroppgave). During the academic year 2024/25 he will serve as the department's interim Academic Programme Director (studieprogramleder) for history. He is happy to supervise projects broadly related to his research interests and fields of expertise. 

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  • Vitenskapelige publikasjoner
  • Bøker og kapitler

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2015)

      Continuity of moral policy: a reconsideration of British motives for the partition of East Africa in light of anti-slave trade policy and imperial agency, 1878-96.

  • Formidling

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli; Nissen, Ada Elisabeth

      (2023)

      Political Advantage, Political Risk: The Nascent Stage of Statoil’s International Expansion, 1978-1999.

      Nordic Civil Societies Workshop ‘A Nordic Worldview?’;

      2023-01-09 - 2023-01-10.

    • Wigdel, Mari; Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2023)

      Sovjetisk krigsgrav skiltet som «russisk» – ukrainere reagerer.

      Rogalands Avis.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2023)

      BBC World News - TV Interview - '150 years since closure of Zanzibar slave market'.

      World Business Report;

      2023-06-05.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2023)

      Has Equinor made Norway dependent on oil?.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2022)

      Kappløpet om Øst Afrika.

      UiS Åpen dag;

      2022-03-08.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2022)

      Folkeretten et blind­spor overfor det russiske imperiet – kun makt virker.

      Aftenbladet.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2022)

      Russland som stormakt - NRK Dagsnytt 18.

      NRK - Dagsnytt atten.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2022)

      Russland som imperium - Radiointervju NRK Rogaland 16. mars 2022.

      NRK Rogaland.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2022)

      Capitalocene Dissent.

      Greenhouse Seminar;

      2022-03-16.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2022)

      Det norsk-kinesiske energisamarbeidet, 1976-1997.

      Seminar om norsk-kinesiske relasjoner ;

      2022-05-04.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2022)

      The Great Leap Offshore: Sino-Norwegian Relations and Petro-Knowledge Transfers, 1976-1997.

      Nordiska Historikermötet 2022;

      2022-08-08 - 2022-08-11.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2022)

      Imperialism and development: the east African groundnut scheme and its legacy.

      International Affairs.

      ISSN 0020-5850.

      Volum 98.

      Hefte 5.

      s.1825-1826.

      DOI: 10.1093/ia/iiac178

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2022)

      ‘Imperium in Imperio’? Balfour’s Promise of a ‘New Palestine’ in East Africa, 1903.

      Anglophone Political Cultures (NTNU);

      2022-12-09.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2022)

      Tore Linné Eriksen: En kort introduksjon til den nye imperialismen 1870–1920.

      Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge).

      ISSN 0018-263X.

      Volum 101.

      Hefte 4.

      s.363-365.

      DOI: 10.18261/ht.101.4.7

    • Gjersø, Jonas

      (2021)

      Tore Linné Eriksen: Afrika: Fra de første mennesker til i dag.

      Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning.

      ISSN 0040-716X.

      Volum 62.

      Hefte 1.

      s.128-129.

      DOI: 10.18261/issn.1504-291X-2021-01-12

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2021)

      The Scramble for [East] Africa.

      Basiskurs i universitetspedagogikk;

      2021-11-29 - 2021-11-30.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2020)

      Radiointervju om slavehandelens historie, rasisme og veltingen av Colston-statuen i Bristol..

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2019)

      Radiointervju om slaveri og slavehandel .

    • Rydne, Jon H.; Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2019)

      Boris Johnson & Co.: Romantiserer brutal fortid.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2019)

      Pax Americana – hva er det?.

      Aktualitetssymposiet ISV;

      2019-04-02 - .

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2019)

      A Far Eastern North Sea: Statoil in China, 1976-90.

      European Business History Association Congress 2019;

      2019-08-29 - 2019-08-30.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2018)

      På forskerfronten - Jonas Fossli Gjersø.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2017)

      The Scramble for East Africa.

      IAKH Research Seminar;

      2017-10-24 - .

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2016)

      Jeremy Corbyn – a mainstream [Scandinavian] social democrat.

      Open Democracy.

      ISSN 1476-5888.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2016)

      Immigration: A Very Anglo-American Hypocrisy.

      Impakter.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2016)

      Britain and the Scramble for East Africa.

      Africa at LSE.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2015)

      Jeremy Corbyn – en uventet seiersgang?.

      Dagsavisen.

      ISSN 1503-2892.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2015)

      ‘Continuity of Moral Policy’: Anti-Slave Trade Policy, Imperial Agency and the Partition of East Africa, 1885-96.

      Cambridge-LSE PhD Conference;

      2015-05-15 - 2015-05-16.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2015)

      The Scramble for East Africa: British Motives Reconsidered, 1884-96.

      Africa Research Forum, University of Cambridge;

      2015-10-14 - .

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2015)

      En uventet seiersgang?.

      Dagsavisen.

      ISSN 1503-2892.

      Volum 24. september.

      s.36-36.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2014)

      Back to the future for economic inequality.

      Open Democracy.

      ISSN 1476-5888.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2014)

      Israel - the last of the settler colonies.

      Open Democracy.

      ISSN 1476-5888.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2014)

      Når ‘food bank’ blir årets nyord.

      Dagsavisen.

      ISSN 1503-2892.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2013)

      Rethinking the Annexation of East Africa.

      Imperial Obsessions: David Livingstone, Africa and world history: a life and legacy reconsidered;

      2013-04-19 - 2013-04-21.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2013)

      Moral Imperialism and the Annexation of East Africa.

      HY509 International History Research Seminar, LSE;

      2013-10-01 - .

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2012)

      Anti-slavery and British policy in East Africa, 1888-1896.

      CAS@50: Cutting Edges and Retrospectives Conference;

      2012-06-01.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2012)

      Ideas-based foreign policy and the annexation of East Africa.

      HY509 International History Research Seminar, LSE;

      2012-11-01 - .

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2011)

      Deciphering Livingstone’s Field Diary.

      Africa at LSE.

    • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

      (2011)

      Blogging: using the Internet in your interests.

      6th LSE International PhD Conference and Workshop,;

      2011-09-01.

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