Introduction
Per Anders Rudling (born 11 April 1974 in Karlstad) is a Swedish-American historian and an associate professor in the Department of History at Lund University (Sweden). He specializes in the areas of nationalism.
Education
Rudling holds a Master of Arts degree in Russian from Uppsala University (1998), a Master of Arts degree in history from San Diego State University (US) (2003), a Ph.D. in history from the University of Alberta (Canada) (2009), and completed a post-doc at the University of Greifswald, Germany.
Career
He is the author of The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906-1931, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, devoted to the subject of present-day Belarusian nationalism from its origins until the 1930s. The book won the Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies in 2015.
Rudling gained international attention in October 2012 when a group of Ukrainian organizations in Canada delivered a signed protest to his employer, accusing him of betraying his own university's principles. The letter was a response to Rudling's public criticism of what he considered a glorification of OUN-B, UPA, Stepan Bandera, and Roman Shukhevych by fellow historian Ruslan Zabily from Ukraine, during his lecture tour in Canada and the United States. Rudling delivered a communiqué from Lund to concerned universities, pointing out to the role of OUN-B in the Holocaust in Ukraine and the involvement of UPA in the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. He also wrote about Bandera's antisemitism and political violence during World War II, which led to ethnic cleansing not only of Poles and Jews but also of Ukrainians themselves. In response to the Canadian-Ukrainian complaint about Rudling, a large group of academic researchers published an open letter in support of him.
Selected academic publications
- Long-Distance Nationalism: Ukrainian Monuments and Historical Memory in Multicultural Canada 32 page book chapter in Public Memory in the Context of Transnational Migration and Displacement, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020
- Eugenics and Racial Anthropology in the Ukrainian Radical Nationalist Tradition, Cambridge University Press, 201
- The Khatyn Massacre in Belorussia: A Historical Controversy Revisited Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 26, Issue 1, Spring 2012, Pages 29–58, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcs011
- ‘They Defended Ukraine’: The 14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (Galizische Nr. 1) Revisited The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Volume 25, 2012 - Issue 3