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  • Comment: Hi Avgeekamfot. Thank you for reviewing my draft. According to special criteria notes 1c on WP:NPROF, a festschrift is considered an automatic pass. I have added seven reviews of her work, so she meets WP:NAUTHOR. These are the reviews:
    *Lindgren, Håkan (1971). "Business Profitability and Industrial Transformation". Scandinavian Economic History Review. 19 (2): 218–221. doi:10.1080/03585522.1971.10407698.
    *Finch, Henry; Petersen, E. Ladewig; Fode, Henrik; Tedebrand, Lars-Göran; Hellgren, Martha (1992). "Book reviews". Scandinavian Economic History Review. 40 (2): 69–78. doi:10.1080/03585522.1992.10408258.
    *Amdam, Rolv Petter (April 2000). "Review of Kersti Ullenhag, I takt med tiden: SNS åren 1948-1998". Business History. 42 (2): 181.
    *Nevéus, Torgny (23 October 2017). "Vackert om industriepoken i Uppsala". Upsala Nya Tidning (in Swedish).
    *Köster, Lena (12 May 2020). "Liberal kvinna bland män i vänstervindar". Upsala Nya Tidning (in Swedish).
    *Schybergson, Per (1994). "Review of Kersti Ullenhag (ed.), Nordic Business in the Long View: On Control and Strategy in Structural Change". Scandinavian Economic History Review. 42 (2): 229–230. doi:10.1080/03585522.1994.10415886.
    *Verley, Patrick (1992). "Kersti Ullenhag (éd.), "Hundred Flowers Bloom". Essays in Honour of Bo Gustafsson". Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations (in French). 47 (3): 745–748. doi:10.1017/S0395264900059187.
    To address the issue of the article sounding resume like, I have removed all three uses of her university profile as reference. Only one item about her being professor emerita is sourced to her university profile. Other than than I have also removed some career details as well. All of these edits, I have made in one edit. Can you please take a look again when you have time? HRShami (talk)
  • Comment: She meets criteria 1c of WP:PROF. A festschrift was published in her honor in 2011.
  • Comment: She meets criteria 1c of WP:PROF. A festschrift was published in her honor in 2011.
  • Comment: She meets criteria 1c of WP:PROF. A festschrift was published in her honor in 2011.
  • Comment: What journal was her festschrift published in? 1c also specifies that it must be an "anniversary or memorial journal volume" and excludes certain journals from counting. Avgeekamfot (talk) 11:03, 18 September 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment: The exact wording is "a Festschrift dedicated to a particular person is usually enough to satisfy Criterion 1, except in the case of publication in vanity, fringe, or non-selective journals or presses."
    In this case, it was just published by her university. Not exactly independent or selective when it comes to their own long-tenured faculty. Avgeekamfot (talk) 20:03, 11 September 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment: I don't see how a festschrift, a fairly common honor for retiring longstanding faculty, shows NPROF#1. Avgeekamfot (talk) 19:01, 8 September 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment: In accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, I disclose that I have been paid by my employer for my contributions to this article. HRShami (talk) 07:36, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment: She meets criteria 1c of WP:PROF. A festschrift was published in her honor in 2011.


Kersti Ullenhag
BornJune 1936 (age 90)
SpouseJörgen Ullenhag
Academic background
EducationUppsala University
ThesisAB Åtvidabergs förenade industrier med föregångare (1970)
Academic work
DisciplineEconomic history
Sub-discipline
Business history
InstitutionsUppsala University

Kersti Ullenhag (born June 1936) is a Swedish economic historian and professor emerita at Uppsala University. She taught and researched at the Department of Economic History in Uppsala from 1963 until her retirement in 2001. Her research concerns business history, where she has used studies of individual firms to explain structural change in the wider economy. She has written books on subjects including peasant trade in Ångermanland and the industrial history of Uppsala. She has also published as Kersti Sågvall-Ullenhag.

Ullenhag's colleagues published a volume collecting her most important articles Delen och helheten on her retirement in 2001. A festschrift, Aktörer och marknader i omvandling, was published in her honour on her 75th birthday in 2011.

Life and career

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Ullenhag was born in June 1936.[1] She gave her first undergraduate course at Uppsala in the autumn term of 1963, and in 1970 took her doctorate in economic history with a monograph on AB Åtvidabergs förenade industrier and its predecessor firms, qualifying as docent in the Faculty of Social Sciences in connection with it.[2][3] She has also published under the name Kersti Sågvall-Ullenhag.[4][5] She was appointed senior lecturer in 1971 and became professor of economic history in 1999. She retired in June 2001, continuing in a part time professorship, and later held the title of professor emerita.[6][5]

From 1997 to 1999 she was appointed by the Swedish government as an expert to the commission investigating Jewish assets in Sweden at the time of the Second World War, researching the Wallenberg archive and the archives of the Trade and Industry Commissions held at the National Archives.[7]

Research

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Ullenhag has conducted research in the area of business history.[2] Her book length studies include a history of the wool carrying farmers of northern Ångermanland between 1750 and 1850[8] and a two part history of the Centre for Business and Policy Studies published in 1998.[9] She wrote volume V of Uppsala stads historia[10] as well as a book on the history of Uplandsbanken from 1965 to 1985.[11] Her 1982 book Sörkörare examined a system of peasant trade previously studied ethnologists only. Pia Karlsson Minganti and Ingvar Svanberg writing in Svenska landsmål och svenskt folkliv identified it as the first treatment of that trading system by an economic historian.[8] Her volume of Uppsala stads historia (1984), on the city's industrial development between 1862 and 1921, was recalled by Torgny Nevéus in Upsala Nya Tidning in 2017 as having been much appreciated, with little of substance written on Uppsala's industrial history in the decades that followed.[10]

Ullenhag edited Hundred Flowers Bloom, a collection marking the sixtieth birthday of Bo Gustafsson, in 1991,[12] and Nordic Business in the Long View in 1993.[13] Her own contribution to the former examined bank mergers in Sweden during the 1970s and 1980s and asked whether owners or managers had driven them. Reviewing the collection in Annales, Patrick Verley placed her approach within a Chandlerian framework and took issue with her conclusion that the impetus for concentration came from changes in legislation.[12] In 2014 she was guest editor, with Mats Larsson and Lars Magnusson, of a special issue of Business History.[14]

Ullenhag published a memoir entitled Kvinna under vänstervind i männens akademi in 2019.[15] Lena Köster reviewed it in Upsala Nya Tidning and wrote that the book turns its spotlight on the Faculty of Social Sciences at Uppsala from the second half of the twentieth century to 2011, and that it contributes a piece to the puzzle of the city's recent history.[15]

Volumes dedicated to Ullenhag

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On her retirement in 2001, eight of her colleagues published Delen och helheten, a selection of her articles. The title of the volume alludes to one of her earlier articles. In their preface they described her as having pursued actor centred studies at the micro level in order to capture the mechanisms behind structural change at the macro level.[5]

In 2011 a festschrift of studies in the history of enterprise, Aktörer och marknader i omvandling, was published in her honour by Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis to mark her 75th birthday. It was edited by Lars Fälting, Mats Larsson, Tom Petersson and Karin Ågren.[16]

Personal life

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Ullenhag is married to Jörgen Ullenhag, a Liberal politician who sat in the Riksdag.[17] They have two sons, Gustav and the politician and diplomat Erik Ullenhag.[18][19]

Selected publications

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  • AB Åtvidabergs förenade industrier med föregångare. Uppsala: Svenska Bokförlaget, 1970.
  • Uppsala stads historia V: industriell utveckling och demokratisering 1862-1921. Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1984.
  • Kvinna under vänstervind i männens akademi. Stockholm: Ekerlids förlag, 2019.

References

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  1. ↑ Lundblad, Bengt; Lönegren, Torsten, eds. (1975). Svenskt författarlexikon: biobibliografisk handbok till Sveriges moderna litteratur (in Swedish). Vol. 6: 1966-1970. Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren. p. 506.
  2. 1 2 Fälting, Lars; Larsson, Mats; Petersson, Tom; Ågren, Karin (2011). "Förord". Aktörer och marknader i omvandling: studier i företagandets historia tillägnade Kersti Ullenhag. Uppsala Studies in Economic History (in Swedish). Vol. 91. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. pp. 7–9. ISBN 978-91-554-8059-2.
  3. ↑ Lindgren, Håkan (1971). "Business Profitability and Industrial Transformation". Scandinavian Economic History Review. 19 (2): 218–221. doi:10.1080/03585522.1971.10407698.
  4. ↑ Glete, Jan (1978). "The Kreuger group and the crisis on the Swedish stock market". Scandinavian Journal of History. 3 (1–4): 251–272. doi:10.1080/03468757808578938.
  5. 1 2 3 Hedberg, Peter; Isacson, Maths; Karlsson, Lynn; Lilja, Kristina; Lindberg, Henrik; Magnusson, Lars; Murhem, Sofia; Skårfors, Rikard (2001). "Förord". Delen och helheten: företags- och industrihistorisk forskning under fyra årtionden. Uppsala Studies in Economic History (in Swedish). Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. pp. 7–8.
  6. ↑ "Kersti Ullenhag". Uppsala University. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
  7. ↑ Sverige och judarnas tillgångar: slutrapport från kommissionen om judiska tillgångar i Sverige vid tiden för andra världskriget. Statens offentliga utredningar. Vol. 1999:20. Stockholm: Utrikesdepartementet. 1999.
  8. 1 2 Karlsson Minganti, Pia; Svanberg, Ingvar (2016). "Märta Hedlund (1913-1944): An Early Scholar in Swedish Ethnology". Svenska landsmål och svenskt folkliv. 139: 125.
  9. ↑ Amdam, Rolv Petter (April 2000). "Review of Kersti Ullenhag, I takt med tiden: SNS åren 1948-1998". Business History. 42 (2): 181.
  10. 1 2 Nevéus, Torgny (23 October 2017). "Vackert om industriepoken i Uppsala". Upsala Nya Tidning (in Swedish).
  11. ↑ Finch, Henry; Petersen, E. Ladewig; Fode, Henrik; Tedebrand, Lars-Göran; Hellgren, Martha (1992). "Book reviews". Scandinavian Economic History Review. 40 (2): 69–78. doi:10.1080/03585522.1992.10408258.
  12. 1 2 Verley, Patrick (1992). "Kersti Ullenhag (éd.), "Hundred Flowers Bloom". Essays in Honour of Bo Gustafsson". Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations (in French). 47 (3): 745–748. doi:10.1017/S0395264900059187.
  13. ↑ Schybergson, Per (1994). "Review of Kersti Ullenhag (ed.), Nordic Business in the Long View: On Control and Strategy in Structural Change". Scandinavian Economic History Review. 42 (2): 229–230. doi:10.1080/03585522.1994.10415886.
  14. ↑ Larsson, Mats; Magnusson, Lars; Ullenhag, Kersti (2014). "Introduction: Scholarship in business history". Business History. 56 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1080/00076791.2013.818420.
  15. 1 2 Köster, Lena (12 May 2020). "Liberal kvinna bland män i vänstervindar". Upsala Nya Tidning (in Swedish).
  16. ↑ Fälting, Lars; Larsson, Mats; Petersson, Tom; Ågren, Karin, eds. (2011). Aktörer och marknader i omvandling: studier i företagandets historia tillägnade Kersti Ullenhag. Uppsala Studies in Economic History. Vol. 91. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-8059-2.
  17. ↑ "Jörgen Ullenhag (Lib)" (in Swedish). Sveriges riksdag. Retrieved 27 August 2026.
  18. ↑ Flodin, Tobias (7 April 2018). "Vi har ett ansvar att göra skillnad för andra människor". Upsala Nya Tidning (in Swedish).
  19. ↑ "Erik Ullenhag (Lib)" (in Swedish). Sveriges riksdag. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
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