Casper Sylvest

Casper Sylvest

Head of Department

Casper Sylvest is a professor of history and Head of the Saxo Institute.

Fields of interest

The political and cultural history of the nuclear age; Cold war civil defence; the history of technology since 1900; environmental history and global politics; British intellectual history 1850-1970; modern British political history, c. 1850-; the history of international political thought and modern political theory; the history and politics of visual imagery; history of international legal thought, c. 1780-1970.

Teaching

Twentieth-century political and cultural history (Denmark, UK, US); history of technology, environmental history; diplomatic history; international history; British history.

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