Person

Lena Halldenius

Professor, Office Director

  • Human Rights Studies
  • Department of History

Contact information

E-mail lena.halldeniusmrs.luse

Phone +46 46 222 96 01

Room LUX:A213

Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund

Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund

Internal post code 30

I am professor of human rights studies. My academic background is in philosophy (PhD practical philosophy) and law. I teach human rights theory and methods and supervise Master- and PhD-students.

My research is in political philosophy and its early modern history, with emphasis on freedom and rights. I am interested in how moral concepts figure in political theory and how political values shape and are shaped by institutions and social change.

One of my research interests is the 18th-century feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. My book on her political philosophy is available in English (Mary Wollstonecraft and Feminist Republicanism) and in Swedish (Mary Wollstonecraft, feminismen och frihetens förutsättningar).

I also work on rights and socioeconomic inequality. My latest project in that field – Cash – concerns how the transition to a cashless economy impacts economically and socially vulnerable groups. The project is funded by Formas, the Swedish research council for sustainable development.

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  • Member, Forskarutbildningsnämnden, Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology

Contact person for Lund University's profile area "Human Rights in a Polarised World".

Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.

Member of the Swedish Research Council's Scientific Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Supervision of phd-students in human rights studies. Have also supervised phd-projects in practical philosophy, jurisprudence, pedagogy, ethics, and international law.

Lena Halldenius

Professor, Office Director

  • Human Rights Studies
  • Department of History

Contact information

E-mail lena.halldeniusmrs.luse

Phone +46 46 222 96 01

Room LUX:A213

Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund

Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund

Internal post code 30

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