Hierta professorial chair

The Lars Johan Hierta professorial chair in political science was the first professorial chair at the Department of Political Science and was installed as early as in 19365 by donations from among others the Lars Hierta foundation and one private donar. The professorial chair was named after the manufacturer, politician, publicist and author Lars Johan Hierta, also known as the founder of the paper Aftonbladet.

Up to the point when Stockholm University College became Stockholm University in the year of 1960 and the different subject areas were organised in the form of departments, this professorial chair was more or less the only permanent position in the subject.

From January 2009 Michele Micheletti is the new holder of the professorial chair. Her inauguration lecture, entitled "Politiskt deltagande - från Lars Hierta till Naomi Klein" ("Political Participation - from Lars Hierta to Naomi Klein") took place on 29 May, 2009, at Stockholm University.

See the entire lecture (wmv file, 1 h 31 min) »

The lecture as powerpoint file »

Holders of the professorial chair

•  1935—1947: Herbert Tingsten
•  1948—1958: Elis Håstad
•  1958—1967: Gunnar Heckscher
•  1967—1976: Hans Meijer
•  1976—1993: Olof Ruin
•  1994—1999: Björn Wittrock
•  2002—2005: Diane Sainsbury
•  2009—       : Michele Micheletti

Herbert Tingsten