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Andreas Önnerfors

Andreas Önnerfors is Associate Professor in the History of Sciences and Ideas at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Specialized in the intellectual history of the eighteenth-century, he has published widely on trans-cultural relations, press history and organized sociability, in particular freemasonry and other fraternal orders. He has recently developed a new research field in the study of the European New Right and taught on this subject as a guest lecturer at Amherst College in fall 2018. Since 2016, he is member of a European research group devoted to the study of conspiracy theories. In 2017, he published Freemasonry – A Very Short Introduction with Oxford University Press and frequently features in Swedish and European press. He is the co-editor of “A Continent of Conspiracies? Conspiracy Theories in and on Europe” (Routledge, forthcoming). For more information, please consult gu-se.academia.edu/AndreasÖnnerfors.