Janne Holmén

Janne Holmén is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at the Department of Education at Uppsala University. He holds a PhD in history. He defended his thesis at Uppsala University in 2006 on how the different foreign policy positions of Norway, Sweden and Finland during the Cold War affected the portrayal of the USA and the Soviet Union in the countries’ textbooks. Holmén has also conducted research on regional identity and regional historiography on islands in the Baltic Sea and on mental maps and historical views among high school students in the Baltic and Mediterranean regions.