Jonas Fossli Gjersø

Associate Professor

Jonas Fossli Gjersø

Contact

Email: jonas.f.gjerso@uis.no

Department

Faculty of Arts and Education

Department of Cultural Studies and Languages

About me

Jonas Fossli Gjersø is an Associate Professor of History researching subjects related to empire, abolition and energy. He is the Current Debates Editor for The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History and is currently serving as the department's Academic Programme Director for History (studieprogramleder for historie). 

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). 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, Fortid, the Land & Climate Review Podcast and Historikeren. 

Dr Gjersø has taught international, imperial and economic history at the LSE, Goldsmiths - University of London, the University of Oslo, BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo & in Stavanger, at the University of Stavanger (UiS) and at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). These courses include: From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century (LSE), International History since 1890 (LSE), Empires in Comparative Perspective: Imperium Romanum to Pax Americana (Goldsmiths), Key Issues in Modern International and Transnational History (Uni. Oslo), Neighborhood Bully? Stormaktene og Midtøsten siden 1945 (Uni. Oslo), Krig og konflikt. Stormaktene, Europa og verdensherredømme i det 20. århundret (Uni. Oslo), Fra Ekofisk til Equinor: Norge og oljen (Uni. Oslo), Moderne historie (Uni. Stavanger), Teknologiens kulturhistorie (Uni. Stavanger), Global Political Economy (BI Oslo & Stavanger); Geopolitics and Global Challenges (NTNU).

At UiS he is the Course Convenor for Modern History (emneansvarlig for (L)HIS165 Moderne historie) and the undergraduate dissertation seminar (emneansvarlig for HIS290 Bacheloroppgave i historie). He is happy to supervise projects broadly related to his research interests. 

Publications

Vitenskapelige publikasjoner

Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

(2022)

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

Enterprise & Society.

ISSN 1467-2227.

Volum 24.

Hefte 2.

s.617-641.

DOI: 10.1017/eso.2022.4

Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

(2021)

Plus ça change? Fra abolisjonisme til migrasjonskrise.

Fortid.

ISSN 1504-1913.

Volum 18.

Hefte 4.

s.56-62.

Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

(2015)

The Scramble for East Africa: British Motives Reconsidered, 1884–95.

Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.

ISSN 0308-6534.

Volum 43.

Hefte 5.

s.831-860.

DOI: 10.1080/03086534.2015.1026131

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

(2024)

Det siste koloniprosjektet.

Dagsavisen.

ISSN 1503-2892.

s.4-4.

Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

(2024)

Gaza and the Mode of Settler Colonial Elimination.

Akademisk boikott av israelske universiteter;

2024-05-08.

Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

(2024)

Crude [Post] Colonialism? The North Sea as an Arena for the Interaction between Colonial and Post-Colonial Capitalist Institutions.

Empire and Capitalism in the North Sea Workshop;

2024-05-14 - 2024-05-15.

Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

(2024)

Arnljot Løseth: Den industrielle revolusjonen: Storbritannia i eit europeisk og globalt perspektiv 1600–1914.

Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge).

ISSN 0018-263X.

Volum 103.

Hefte 2.

s.173-175.

DOI: 10.18261/ht.103.2.7

Gjersø, Jonas Fossli

(2024)

Historikarar for akademisk boikott.

Historikeren.

ISSN 1891-6600.

Hefte 2.

s.10-11.

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.