Research
Camilla Brautaset (born 1971) is professor of modern economic history at the Department of Archeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion (AHKR). Together with professor Ole Thomassen Hjortland as Vice-Dean, she was elected Dean of the Faculty of Humanities for the period 2021-2025.
Brautaset is trained in economics, history and economic history. Her doctoral thesis was within macroeconomic history and combined extensive archival in Norway and the UK, methods and perspectives from humanities with economic theories and quantitative analysis. In addition to macroeconomic history, Brautaset specialises in transnational history, quantitative sources and methods, economic policy and institutional change. In recent years her research interests have also evolved to include historiography as well as migration and missionary history.
Brautaset headed the interdisciplinary research group “Transnational History and Cultural Encounters, 1850-present” from it was established in 2008 until 2014 and continues to be member of this group today. In 2010 she received a major research grant through the Norwegian Research Council’s open projects within the Humanities: Merchants and Missionaries. Norwegian Encounters with China in a Transnational Perspective, 1890-1937.
Brautaset has held several posts of academic services, including as member of the board for the Faculty of Humanities (2017–2021), member of the board for the Bergen Maritime Museum (since 2011), member of AHKR´s advisory board (2013–2017) and being national editor of The Scandinavian Economic History Review (2015–2017). She also chaired the University of Bergen´s Advisory Board for Academic Cooperation with China (2018–2020).
Publications
Masters thesis
- Ullensvang, Håvard Størksen; Brautaset, Camilla; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad (2021). Hvordan arvet man et skipsmeglerfirma? En aktørstudie av skipsmeglere fra Joachim Grieg & Co. analysert ut i fra en brevsamling 1927-31. (external link)
- Sæbø, Åsmund; Brautaset, Camilla; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad (2021). Bananas of the Caribbean, en studie av bergenske skip i den amerikanske fruktfarten 1886-1911. (external link)
- Sebak, Per Kristian; Brautaset, Camilla; Fromreide Svendsen, Mats (2016). Med flytende hoteller gjennom urent farvann - Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskabs cruisevirksomhet 1920-1939. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Husetuft, Beate (2007). Likskap på for lova? Den norske boikottlova mot Sør-Afrika og Namibia 1986/87. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Jensen, Martine (2007). Barne- og ungdomsarbeid i den Bergenske handelsflåten 1800-1900. (external link)
Popular scientific lecture
- Lunde, Ingunn; Gilhus, Ingvild S.; Paulsen, Mikkel Ekeland et al. (2020). What makes a successful dissertation (both monographs and article-based)? Experiences from previous evaluation committee members. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Skeie, Karina Hestad (2018). Møter med Kina. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2018). Møter med Kina. Norsk diplomati, næringsliv og misjon, 1890-1937. (external link)
- Skeie, Karina Hestad; Brautaset, Camilla (2018). Møter med Kina Bokbad. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2014). Kina og Tibet. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2012). Kina som globalt møtested: Norske erfaringer i historisk perspektiv. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2006). Er globalisering et nytt fenomen?. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2005). Forskning innan økonomisk historie. (external link)
Academic monograph
Academic lecture
- Brautaset, Camilla (2019). 100 års børshistorie på 10 minutter. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2019). Numbers in History. History in Numbers.. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2019). Martin Luther King Booktalk: To the Promised Land. Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice. . (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2019). Institusjonalisert kapitalisme? Krakk, Kriser og Kristiania Børs ved inngangen til det 20. århundre. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2019). Institusjonalisert Kapitalisme? Krakk, Kriser og Kristiania Børs ved inngangen til det 20. århundre. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2018). Sailing along the Silk Road. Norwegian trade with China before 1937. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2018). Glem aldri den nasjonale ydmykelsen - historiske perspektiver på stormakten Kina. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2017). Norske økonomiske interesser i Kina ca. 1890-1940. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2017). Norway in China and China in Norway: Histories of globalisation from below. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2017). Wallem. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2016). Norwegians in China: Merchants, Missionaries, Migration. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2016). Roundtable, The Fate of Nations Project NTNU. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2016). Missionaries as Migrants. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2016). Network Societies and Global Lives . (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2016). Different Stories. A book proposal. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2015). Migration and business - the role of human capital. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2015). Foreign Direct Investments, Trade and Economic Globalisation, 1880-1939. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2014). The historical context: citizens and state through revolution and reform (keynote). (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2014). Merchants and Missionaries – Connecting China, Norway and beyond. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2014). Transnational Encounters Between China and Norway, 1890-1937 (keynote). (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Tenold, Stig (2012). From sailing northern seas to world wide shipping. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2012). East of the Sun - West of the Moon. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2012). Wallem & Co: Shipping and Business Networks in the Far East. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2012). Merchants and Missionaries 1890-1937. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Tenold, Stig (2012). The Handmaidens of the Sea. Norwegian Merchant Shipping ca. 1700-2000. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2010). Processes of internationalisation in a cultural and historical perspective – Scandinavian encounters with China. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Tenold, Stig (2009). Norwegian Maritime Histories. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Tenold, Stig (2009). Lost in Calculation? Norwegian Merchant Shipping in Asia, 1870-1914. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Tenold, Stig (2009). East of Aden. Norwegian Merchant Shipping in Asia, 1880-1920. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Tenold, Stig (2009). Norwegian Maritime Histories. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Tenold, Stig (2009). Norwegian Maritime Histories. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Tenold, Stig (2009). East of Aden. Norwegian Merchant Shipping in Asia, 1880-1920. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Tenold, Stig (2009). Lost in Calculation? Norwegian Merchant Shipping in Asia, 1870-1914. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2009). Steamships. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2009). Merchant and Missionaries. A project proposal. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2008). Handelspolitikk i det 19.århundre. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2008). Globalisation. 200 years of experience. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2007). The Nordic Countries and European integration: Economic and political history and it's relevance for today. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2007). Commentator to papers presented at the session: "Roads to capitalism". (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2007). The Nordic countries and the European integration: All roads lead to Rome - or do they?. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2007). Norsk skipsfart i det 19.århundre - overgangen fra å være en regional til å bli en global næring. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2007). Globalisering - 200 år med en internasjonal økonomi?. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2007). Globalisation - 200 years of experience. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2007). Comments on professor Robert Marks book: The Origins of the Modern World. (external link)
- Tenold, Stig; Brautaset, Camilla (2006). Waiving the rules to rule the waves - globalisation and Norwegian shipping policy, 1850-2000. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Bjørsvik, Elisabeth (2006). Norwegian Historical National Accounts. Current status. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2006). Methodology. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Tenold, Stig (2006). Waiving the rules to rule the waves – globalisation and Norwegian shipping policy, 1850-2000. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2006). Changes in Economic Gravity. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2005). The Performance of European Business in the 20th Century: A project update. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Grafe, Regina (2005). The quiet transport revolution : Norway’s sailing fleet in the 19th century. (external link)
- Gourvish, Terence; Brautaset, Camilla (2004). Principles, methodologies and possibilities: Belgian firms and the European business performance project. (external link)
- Cassis, Youssef; Brautaset, Camilla (2004). How to measure business performance. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Cassis, Youssef (2004). The Performance of European Business in the 20th Century: Some methodological issues. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Cassis, Youssef (2004). The Performance of European Business in the 20th Century: Some results. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2004). Current status and future progress of the project. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2000). Handelsflåten og Trelasteksporten. Noen nye beregninger. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2000). Where did they go? On the discrimination of female labourers during the years of crisis: Network of Social Inequality. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Christensen, Jørgen Peter (1999). How to establish foreign trade series in Norwegian Historical National Accounts: Exports of cod-products as case. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (1999). Norwegian economic thought and economic policy 1814-1905: Notes on current views and empirical findings. (external link)
Programme participation
Editorial
Interview
- Svendsen, Njord Vegard; Brautaset, Camilla (2018). Historia ser annleis ut i Bergen enn i Beijing. (external link)
- Drønen, Sverre Ole; Brautaset, Camilla (2018). Historien viktig for å forstå Kina i dag. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2015). Russlandskonflikten og handelsblokader i historisk perspektiv. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2014). Kinas historie er fremtiden. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2014). China´s history shapes the future. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2012). Forsker på misjon og handel. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2012). Dramatiske forandringer på få år. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2010). Blandet karakter til Wikipedia. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2008). I utakt med inntekten. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; NRK, P1 (2007). Tulipaner og økonomiske bobler. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2007). Fra kontanter til kort. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2007). Pengesedler: En kollektiv illusjon?. (external link)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
- Brautaset, Camilla (2018). Opium, traktater og tolkninger. Norske utenriksstasjoner i Midtens rike. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2018). Norges første statsbesøk?. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2018). En maritim silkerute. Norge, Kina og den første globaliseringsbølgen. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2018). Tran: En transnasjonal historie. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2018). Med skandinaviske vikingskip på kinesiske sedler. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Skeie, Karina Hestad; Gregersen, Malin (2018). Møter med Kina: En introduksjon. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2018). Anna Jakobsen og Cheng Xiuqi - en kjærlighetshistorie. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2014). 1814 og Alt Det Der : det nasjonaløkonomiske byggverket kjem på plass, 1816-1822. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2013). Merchants and missionaries. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Dent, Christopher M. (2013). Introduction: diversity and development in Asia. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Øksendal, Lars Fredrik M. (2013). Fortellinger og Forklaringer i Økonomisk Historie. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2011). When distance matters: the output of the Norwegian merchant fleet, 1830-1865. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2005). Introduction. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2004). Bruttofraktinntekter i norsk skipsfart 1830-1865. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Grafe, Regina (2004). A long distance affair: Shipping and global integration in the 19th century. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2002). The emergence of an independent Norwegian economic policy: some notes on current views and empirical findings. (external link)
Introduction
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Doctoral dissertation
Book review
- Brautaset, Camilla (2016). I främmande hamn: Den svenska och svensk- norska konsulattjänsten, 1700–1985. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2005). Kurt Jacobsen; Jydsk Telefon - Verdens Bedste Telefonselskap. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2005). Søren Federspiel; En Fond i Fokus. Egmont Fondens Almennyttige Virksomhed 1920-2002. Set i Et Samfundsmessig Perspektiv. (external link)
Report
- Slaattelid, Rasmus Tore; Brautaset, Camilla; Sandin, Pär Ola et al. (2016). Tematiske profilområde ved HF. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Grafe, Regina (2006). The Quiet Transport Revolution: Returns to Scale, Scope and Network Density in Norway's Nienteenth-Century Sailing Fleet. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla (2005). Essays in European Business Performance in the 20th Century, Business History Unit (London School of Economcis and Political Science) Occasional Paper 2005, No 1. (external link)
Lecture
Academic article
- Brautaset, Camilla; Tenold, Stig (2010). Lost in Calculation? Norwegian Merchant Shipping in Asia, 1870-1914. (external link)
- Tenold, Stig; Brautaset, Camilla (2008). Globalisation and Norwegian shipping policy, 1850-2000. (external link)
- Brautaset, Camilla; Tenold, Stig (2008). Globalisation and Norwegian Shipping Policy, 1850-2000. (external link)
- Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Brautaset, Camilla (1998). Family households and unemployment during years of crisis: New estimates 1926-1939. (external link)