Appointment of Carl Pedersen as Adjunct Professor

Copenhagen Business School appoints Carl Pedersen, Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, as Adjunct Professor at the Center for the Study of the Americas.

Carl Pedersen holds an MA in Russian (1981) and a Ph.D. in English (1985) from the University of Copenhagen. Formerly on the faculties of the University of Southern Denmark and Roskilde University Center, he is now Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Copenhagen. Carl Pedersen has been Research Fellow at Harvard University and Visiting Associate Professor at the Universities of Wyoming and Iowa. From 2001 – 2003 he was President of the Collegium for African American Research in Europe and from 2000 – 2003 the Director of the Center for American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. Carl Pedersen is a board member of the Fulbright Commission in Denmark.

Carl Pedersen’s research ranges widely, from African-American studies to US politics and society and Caribbean history. His publications include USA i det 21. århundrede (The United States in the 21st Century) with Helle Porsdam (Copenhagen: Columbus, 2005) and Den sårbare Nation (The Vulnerable Nation: The US 1991-2002) (Copenhagen: Aschehoug, 2002). He is currently working on a study of US foreign policy and the Iraq war.

You are invited to attend Carl Pedersen’s inaugural lecture and a reception.