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Steinar Sæther

Professor - Historie
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Phone +47 22 85 82 46
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Visiting address Niels Henrik Abels vei 36 Niels Treschows hus 0851 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1008 Blindern 0315 Oslo

Current leadership responsibilities

Departmental head of studies from January 2021

Fields of expertise

Most of my research has focused on Latin American and Caribbean history in the 18th and 19th centuries, and has circled principally around two broad themes: 1) the transition from monarchical/colonial rule to republican nation-states in Latin America and its social and political ramifications; and 2) Scandinavian migration to and within Latin America between independence (ca 1820) until World War II.

Currently, I pursue some research ideas that entail comparisons of Scandinavian and Latin American issues between 1500 and 1850.

Outside these areas, I have broad interests in Latin American, Caribbean, European and global history from ca 1500 to the present, and I have supervised a number of bachelor, master and Phd theses.

 

Tags: Latin America, History, Migration, Social History, Colonial History

Publications

  • Sæther, Steinar A. (2025). Forging America in Scandinavia: Andersson’s Travelogue and The Lehmanns’ Cyclorama of Gold Rush California. In Hemstad, Ruth & Rasmussen, Terje (Ed.), Nordic Transatlantic Crossings : Emigration, Interaction and Democracy 1825–1945. Routledge. ISSN 9781003682110. p. 31–50. doi: 10.4324/9781003682110-4. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar (2025). Lynsjing og lokaldemokrati: norske opplevelser av California under gullrushet. In Sandvik, Hilde (Eds.), Demokratiet i Amerika - skrekkeksempel eller ideal. Norske oppfatninger av USA gjennom 200 år.. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202868505. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2023). Popular Royalism in Scandinavia and Spanish America Before 1814. In Artola, Andoni & PAris, Alvaro (Ed.), Royalism, War and Popular Politics in the Age of Revolutions, 1780s-1870s. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783031295102. p. 39–59. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-29511-9_3. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2019). Condecorações monarquistas nas guerras de independência da América Espanhola: O cacique Núñez de Mamatoco e a Real Ordem Americana de Isabel a Católica. Varia Historia. ISSN 0104-8775. 35(67), p. 83–111. doi: 10.1590/0104-87752019000100004. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2019). Royalist Decorations in the Spanish American Wars of Independence: Cacique Núñez of Mamatoco and the Royal American Order of Isabel la Católica. Varia Historia. ISSN 0104-8775. 35(67), p. 83–111. doi: 10.1590/0104-87752019000100004. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2018). El caudillo Francisco Carmona y su relación con los cienagueros. In Elias, Jorge Enrique & Viloria, Joaquin (Ed.), HISTORIA DE SANTA MARTA Y EL " MAGDALENA GRANDE " DEL PERIODO NAHUANGE AL SIGLO XXI. Editorial Unimagdalena. ISSN 9789587461336. doi: 10.2307/j.ctvb4bsxp.6. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2017). Den norske utvandringen til Latin-Amerika mellom 1820 og 1940. In Marsteintredet, Leiv (Eds.), Norge i Latin-Amerika: Forbindelser og forestillinger. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202548483. p. 33–69. doi: 10.23865/noasp.27. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2016). Exploring Exotic Pasts. Norwegian Scholars’ Work on Latin America before 1960. In Bull, Benedicte (Eds.), Norwegian Research on Human Rights and Justice in Latin America. CLACSO Latin American Council of Social Sciences. ISSN 9789877222012. p. 37–52. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv253f5q5.4. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2015). Making Sense of a Minor Migratory Stream. In Sæther, Steinar Andreas (Eds.), Expectations Unfulfilled: Norwegian Migrants in Latin America, 1820-1940. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004307384. doi: 10.1163/9789004307391_003. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2015). Introduction. In Sæther, Steinar Andreas (Eds.), Expectations Unfulfilled: Norwegian Migrants in Latin America, 1820-1940. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004307384. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2015). Identidades indígenas y modernidad política durante la independencia. In Maldonado, María Eugenia Chaves (Eds.), Los “otros” de las independencias, los “otros” de la nación. Participación de la población afrodescendiente e indígena en las independencias del Nuevo Reino de Granada, Chile y Haití. Editorial Universidad Nacional de Colombia. ISSN 9789587753615. p. 261–266. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2015). Explorando pasados exóticos: El trabajo académico noruego sobre América Latina antes de 1960. In Bull, Benedicte (Eds.), Pensamiento social noruego sobre América Latina. Consejo Latinoamericano de Sciencias Sociales (CLACSO). ISSN 9789877221244. p. 39–55. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2011). Counting Indians: Census Categories in Late Colonial and Early Republican Spanish America. In Axelsson, Per & Sköld, Peter (Ed.), Indigenous Peoples and Demography. The Complex Relation between Identity and Statistics. Berghahn Books. ISSN 9780857450005. p. 55–71. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas & Østrem, Nils Olav (2011). Norwegian emigration to Latin America : numbers, questions and methods. In Niemi, Einar a; Østrem, Nils Olav & Ax, Christina Folke (Ed.), Nordic migration: research status, perspectives and challenges: rapporter til det 27. nordiske historikermøte, Tromsø 11.-14. august 2011. Orkana Forlag. ISSN 9788281041530. p. 115–133. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2011). La relación entre Cartagena y Santa Marta, 1810-1813. In Roca, Adolfo Meisel (Eds.), Cartagena de Indias en la Independencia. Banco de la República. ISSN 9789586642385. p. 181–214. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2010). Participación de la provincia de Santa Marta en el proceso independentista. In Torres, Juan Carlos (Eds.), El gran libro del Bicentenario: Memorias del Encuentro Internacional con nuestra historia, Cartagena de Indias, octubre de 2009. Editorial Planeta Colombiana S.A.. ISSN 9789584225429. p. 163–167. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2010). Is Chávez getting what he wants? Bolívar and Popular Participation in the New Historiography on Latin American Independence. Anales Nueva Época. ISSN 1101-4148. p. 199–222. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2010). Estudios recientes sobre raza e independencia en el caribe colombiano (1750-1835). In Langebaek, Carl H. & Leal, Claudia (Ed.), Historias de raza y nación en América Latina. Ediciones uniandes. ISSN 9789586954358. p. 381–406. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2008). La Independencia y la redefinición del concepto de indianidad alrededor de Santa Marta, Colombia, 1750 – 1850. Memorias. Revista Digital de Historia y Arquelogía desde el Caribe Colombiano. p. 3–30. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2005). Independence and the Re-Definition of Indianness around Santa Marta, Colombia, 1750-1850. Journal of Latin American Studies. ISSN 0022-216X. 37(1), p. 55–80. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2005). Independence and the Redefinition of Indianness around Santa Marta, Colombia, 1750-1850. Journal of Latin American Studies. ISSN 0022-216X. 37(1), p. 55–80. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2003). Bourbon Absolutism and Marriage Reform in Late Colonial Spanish America. The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History. ISSN 0003-1615. 59(4), p. 475–509. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2003). Bourbon absolutism and marriage reform in late colonial Spanish America. ?. 59(4), p. 475–509. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Rønning, Anne-Birgitte; Haug, Dag Trygve Truslew & Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2024). Frokostmøte: Humaniora og infrastruktur. Full text in Research Archive
  • Slangsvold, Einar Lie; Paszkiewicz, Zofia; Tjønn, Mathias Hatleskog & Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2023). Studio 2 - Drømmen om Europa: Historien om migrasjon. [Radio]. NRK P2. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2022). Hvordan koka ble til kokain. Fortid. ISSN 1504-1913. 22(1). Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2021). Ekteskap og forlystelse i Spansk Amerika: noen forbindelser? Fortid. ISSN 1504-1913. p. 14–17. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2020). Identiteter i historiefaget, med noen eksempler fra Spania og Spansk Amerika. Fortid. ISSN 1504-1913. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2016). Boklansering: Expectations unfulfilled: Norwegian Migrants in Latin America, 1820-1940. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2016). Norwegian Sailors, Whalers and Workers between Tierra del Fuego and Alaska, 1848–1914. Full text in Research Archive
  • Krøvel, Roy; Sæther, Steinar Andreas; Bull, Benedicte; Wiig, Henrik; McNeish, John-Andrew & Marsteintredet, Leiv [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2016). Hvor demokratiske er fredsavtaler?. Ordstyrar. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2015). Caudillismo, Liberalism and Race in Early Republican Latin America: The Case of Francisco Carmona and his followers in Colombia. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2015). Cómo enseñar historias remotas: los viajeros científicos y otros aventureros noruegos en América latina. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2015). Indios amedallados: La condecoración de Antonio Núñez de Mamatoco en 1815 y la Real Americana Orden de Isabel la Católica. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2013). Norske beilere i Latin-Amerika, 1820-1940. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2013). Dagbøker, memoarer og brev skrevet av nordmenn i Latin-Amerika,1820-1940. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2013). Desired Immigrants – Frustrated Adventurers? Norwegians in Latin America, 1820-1940. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2012). Latinamerikanske kvinner og norske beilere, 1820-1940. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2012). Nordmenn i Latin-Amerika, 1820-1940. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2012). Norske misjonærer i HULA/Latin-Amerika før 1940. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2012). Nordmenn i Latin-Amerika - ikke bare eventyrere. [Journal]. Apollon. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2012). Nordmenn i Latin-Amerika før 1940. [Radio]. NRK P2, Ekko. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2012). Rogalendinger i HULA/Latin-Amerika, 1820-1940. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2012). Intervju om nordmenn i Latin-Amerika i /Kosmo/. [Radio]. Radio Norge. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2011). Innslag på Sommeråpent om prosjektet "Nordmenn i Latin-Amerika 1820-1940". [TV]. NRK1. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2011). Innslag på Kveldsåpent om prosjektet "Nordmenn i Latin-Amerika 1820-1940". [Radio]. NRK P1. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2011). Nordmenn i Latin-Amerika 1820-1940. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2011). Norwegian Emigration to Latin America: numbers, questions and methods. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2011). Nordmenn i Latin-Amerika, 1820-1940. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2011). Nordmenn i Latin-Amerika, 1820-1940. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2011). Nordmenn i Latin-Amerika, 1820-1940. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2010). Intervju om doktoravhandling og boka /Identitdades e independencia en Santa Marta y Riohacha, 1750-1850/ til programserien "200, Historias Bicentenarias". [TV]. Telemedellín. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2010). Intervju om presidentvalget i Colombia i Radioselskapet. [Radio]. NRK P2. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2010). Kræsjkurs i latinamerikansk historie. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2010). Entrevista sobre las independencias latinoamericanas y los bicentenarios. [Radio]. Radio Latin-Amerika. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2010). ”Desired Immigrants – Frustrated Adventurers” – the current state of the project. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2010). Entre la República y el Reino: la población indígena y los proyectos insurgentes contra la república. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2010). Degrees of distrust: Suffrage and political participation in the Norwegian 17 May 1814 Constitution in a Colombian and bolivarian perspective. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2010). Dagsnytt 18. [Radio]. NRK P1. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2010). Den cubanske revolusjon og dens konsekvenser i Latin-Amerika. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2009). The Wars after the War: Race in the Post-Independence Political Conflicts of Caribbean Colombia. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2009). Venezuela under Chavez. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2009). La participacion de las provincias: Santa Marta. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2009). Postkolonialisme og forståelsen av den latinamerikanske uavhengigheten, 1810-1826. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2009). Colombia: korrupsjon, geriljaer og kokain. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2008). Ukeslutt, innslag om nordmann kidnappet i Colombia. [Radio]. NRK P2. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2008). Bolivias historie til midten av 1800-tallet. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2008). Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia 1795-1831. Journal of Latin American Studies. ISSN 0022-216X. 40, p. 801–803. doi: 10.1017/S0022216X08004811. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2008). El pasquín y la cultura política en Santa Marta a finales del siglo XVIII. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2008). Intervju NRK Buskerud om FARC. [Radio]. NRK Buskerud. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2008). Intervju VG om FARC. [Journal]. VG. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2008). Intervju i Olsenbanden (P3), 3. mars om Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela og FARC. [Radio]. NRK P3. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2007). Latin-Amerika: mulige definisjoner av noe som stadig blir større. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2007). Qué consecuencias tuvo la independencia de España para la gente de Santa Marta? Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2007). Brasil: en kort innføring i dets historie fram til militærstyret. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2007). Latin-Amerikastudier ved UiO: muligheter for samarbeid med frivillige organisasjoner. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2007). Aline Helg: Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770-1835 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004). Colonial Latin American Review. ISSN 1060-9164. 16(1), p. 142–144. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2007). Er demokrati noe nytt i Latin-Amerika? Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2007). Hva er Latin-Amerika? Kort innføring i regionens historie. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2007). Independencia y la redefinición de lo indio alrededor de Santa Marta. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2007). Estudios recientes sobre raza e independencia en Colombia. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2007). Relaciones entre Santa Marta y Cartagena, 1810-1813. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2006). RadioSelskapet. [Radio]. NRK P2. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2006). I forhold til. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2006). Family - Colonial Spanish America. In Francis, J. Michael (Eds.), Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. ABC-CLIO. ISSN 9781851094219. p. 474–477. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2006). Marriage - Colonial Latin America. In Francis, J. Michael (Eds.), Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. ABC-CLIO. ISSN 9781851094219. p. 673–676. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2006). Hvordan blir man egentlig indianer? Om nye og gamle etniske identiteter i Latin-Amerika. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2006). I forhold til. p. 11–11. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2006). Colombia, tierra querida. [Radio]. Radio Latin-Amerika. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2006). Counting Indians in Late Colonial and Early Republican Census and Parish Records in New Granada. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2005). Identidades y cultura popular en el Caribe colombiano antes de la independencia. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2005). Identidades y cultura popular en el Caribe colombiano antes de la Independencia. Aguaita. ISSN 0124-0722. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2005). Ti dårlige grunner til å lære spansk. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2004). Uavhengigheten og omdefineringen av indianere i Santa Marta (Colombia), 1750-1850. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2004). Uavhengigheten og omdefineringen av indianere i Santa Marta (Colombia), 1750-1850. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæther, Steinar Andreas (2001). Identities and independence in the provinces of Santa Marta and Riohacha (Colombia), ca. 1750 - ca. 1850. University of Warwick, Department of History. Full text in Research Archive

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