Henrik Williams

Henrik Williams is a noted expert on runes. He is currently a Professor of Scandinavian Languages at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Henrik Williams
Born
Kalmar, Sweden
Alma materUppsala University
AwardsRudbeck Medal (2014)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Uppsala University

Early life and education

Williams was born in Kalmar, Sweden. After graduating from school in his hometown, he spent a year as an exchange student in Ohio. After returning to Sweden in 1978, he settled in Uppsala and enrolled at Uppsala University. He studied Scandinavian languages, and in 1983, when he spent some time as a faculty assistant at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, he became interested in researching runestones. When returning to Sweden he wrote his PhD thesis on Swedish runestones.[1]

Career

Academic career

Williams received his PhD at Uppsala University in 1990 and became a senior lecturer, later associate professor, at the Department of Scandinavian languages at that university. In 1998, Williams served as visiting associate professor at University of California, Berkeley. Williams also held visiting professor position at University College London and University of Central Oklahoma in 2015 and 2017 respectively, and has had fellowships and positions as visiting professor at several academic institutions in Scandinavia.[2]

Williams has been invited as a guest speaker and lecturer at various museums and institutions in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Nordic countries.[2]

Editorial work

From 2002 to 2008 and later from 2011 to 2014 Henrik Williams served as a member of the electoral college of the Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences[2] subsequently becoming its board member.[3] Since 2010, he serves as a co-editor of Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies[4] and is a member of the editorial board of Scripta Islandica.[5] Williams is also a member of the American Association for Runic Studies.[6]

Awards and honors

References
  1. Joan Fredriksson (10 May 2019). "Exclusive Interview with Henrik Williams". Swedish Press. Archived from the original on 22 September 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  2. "Henrik Williams". Uppsala University. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  3. "Områdesnämnden för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap" [Committee on Humanities and Social Sciences] (in Swedish). Uppsala University. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  4. "Editorial board". Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  5. "Scripta Islandica". Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  6. "Henrik Williams". American Association for Runic Studies. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  7. "Five new medal recipients named". Uppsala University. 10 December 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
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