Alexander Isacsson
Alexander Isacsson Position: Researcher School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social SciencesEmail: YWxleGFuZGVyLmlzYWNzc29uO29ydS5zZQ==
Phone: +46 19 302331
Room: F3161
About Alexander Isacsson
Alexander Isacsson holds a PhD in history. His dissertation, Defining Dukeship: The Problem of Royal Spares and Dynasty Formation in Sweden, 1556-1622 (2023), is available open access, and can be found here
Research
Alexander Isacsson's research interests include early modern cultural history, court studies, royal studies, historiography and media history.
In 2025, Isacsson mainly conducts his research in affiliation with Lund University. The research, funded by Ridderstads stiftelse för historisk grafisk forskning and Vitterhetsakademien's Rettigstipendium, focuses on the publication of historical sources, ranging from the monumental edition projects of the nineteenth century to the digitisation projects of the twenty-first century. Within the projects, Isacsson explores canonisation, remediation, layout and the practices of historical knowledge production.
In 2024, Isacsson was employed in the research project New Princes: Duke Johan of Östergötland (1589–1618) and Archduke Charles of Austria (1590–1624), headed by Liesbeth Geevers at Lund University. Additionally, in 2024, Isacsson also held a scholarship from Vitterhetsakademien, awarded within the Bernadotte Programme, which involved exploring the publication of historical sources and anecdotes as part of the history of humanities.
Teaching
In 2025, Isacsson teaches the ourses History in Society, Historical Research Paper and Re-Shaping States, Identities and Cultures, offered in collaboration with the universities in Ostrava, Bielefeld and Tours as part of the NEOLAiA cooperation.
Publications
Articles in journals
- Isacsson, A. (2025). Dynastic Centralisation and Court Constellations: Duke-King Relations in Early Seventeenth-Century Sweden. The Court Historian, 30 (1), 34-56. [BibTeX]
- Isacsson, A. (2024). Aristocrats and Refined Peasants: The Concept of Aristocracy in Swedish Historiography. Royal Studies Journal, 11 (1), 45-81. [BibTeX]
- Isacsson, A. , Lancaster, J. & Bagerius, H. (2024). Het diskussion och utmanande tystnad: Att lära sig att leda samtal om identitet, sexualitet och relationer. Högre Utbildning, 14 (1), 82-89. [BibTeX]
- Isacsson, A. (2021). Dynastisk centralisering i 1560-talets Sverige: "Reservens dilemma" och hertigarnas resning 1568. Scandia, 87 (1), 11-37. [BibTeX]
- Isacsson, A. (2018). Monarchical Image-Making in an Age of Revolution: Embodying the ‘Traditional’ and the ‘Modern’ in Swedish Dynastic Ceremonies, c. 1780–1820. Scandinavian Journal of History, 43 (5), 666-684. [BibTeX]
- Isacsson, A. (2017). Ceremonies and Rituals. The Court Historian, 22 (1), 90-91. [BibTeX]
Articles, book reviews
- Isacsson, A. (2025). Recension av: Hedvig Eleonora och hennes tid. Historisk Tidskrift, 145 (1), 139-140. [BibTeX]
- Isacsson, A. (2023). Recension av: Hovet: Historien om ett kungligt maskineri. Karolinska förbundets årsbok, 120-123. [BibTeX]
- Isacsson, A. (2021). Recension av: Kungar – en världshistoria: [Kings - a world history]. Historisk Tidskrift, 141 (4), 742-744. [BibTeX]
- Isacsson, A. (2021). Recension av: Powers of Description: Language and Social History in the Long Eighteenth Century. Historisk Tidskrift, 141 (1), 137-140. [BibTeX]
Books
- Isacsson, A. (2015). Dissekering av ett lokalsamhälle: En studie av sociokulturella mönster på småländsk landsbygd 1838-1845. Vadstena: Landsarkivet i Vadstena (Småskrifter från Landsarkivet i Vadstena 3). [BibTeX]
Chapters in books
- Isacsson, A. (2024). “Doing House” and Making Dynasty: The Ducal Courts of Later Sixteenth-Century Sweden. In: Bożena Popiołek; Urszula Kicińska; Anna Penkała-Jastrzębska, Monarch's Court - Private Court: The Evolution of the Court Structure from the Middle Ages to the End of the 18th Century (pp. 59-78). Krakow: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UKEN. [BibTeX]
Doctoral theses, monographs
- Isacsson, A. (2023). Defining Dukeship: The Problem of Royal Spares and Dynasty Formation in Sweden, 1556-1622. (Doctoral dissertation). Örebro: Örebro University. [BibTeX]