Ph. D. in History, Lund University, Sweden. 1994-2002 Professor of East European Culture and History, Uppsala University, Sweden. Since 2002 Professor of History at the University of Lund, Sweden. Chairman of The Swedish Committee Against Antisemitism, 1998.

Publications include: Numerous books and articles on Russia and Central Europe, including Centraleuropas historia (A History of Central Europe, 1997), Degrees of Antisemitism: The Swedish Example in Jews and Christians (1997).