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). 

  

 

Editorial/Leader article

• Camilla Brautaset; Jari Ojala (2018). Research on international trade and transport - a generational shift?. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Jari Ojala (2016). Business as usual. (external link)

Conference lecture

• Camilla Brautaset (2016). Missionaries as Migrants. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2007). Norsk skipsfart i det 19.århundre - overgangen fra å være en regional til å bli en global næring. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2019). Martin Luther King Booktalk: To the Promised Land. Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice.. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Jørgen Peter Christensen (1999). How to establish foreign trade series in Norwegian Historical National Accounts: Exports of cod-products as case. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2009). Merchant and Missionaries. A project proposal. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2006). Changes in Economic Gravity. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Stig Tenold (2006). Waiving the rules to rule the waves – globalisation and Norwegian shipping policy, 1850-2000. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Stig Tenold (2009). Norwegian Maritime Histories. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2000). Where did they go? On the discrimination of female labourers during the years of crisis: Network of Social Inequality. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2016). Roundtable, The Fate of Nations Project NTNU. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2016). Different Stories. A book proposal. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2014). Transnational Encounters Between China and Norway, 1890-1937 (keynote). (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2019). Institusjonalisert kapitalisme? Krakk, Kriser og Kristiania Børs ved inngangen til det 20. århundre. (external link)
• Stig Tenold; Camilla Brautaset (2006). Waiving the rules to rule the waves - globalisation and Norwegian shipping policy, 1850-2000. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2014). The historical context: citizens and state through revolution and reform (keynote). (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2007). Commentator to papers presented at the session: "Roads to capitalism". (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2010). Processes of internationalisation in a cultural and historical perspective – Scandinavian encounters with China. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2009). Steamships. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Stig Tenold (2012). From sailing northern seas to world wide shipping. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2012). Merchants and Missionaries 1890-1937. (external link)
• Youssef Cassis; Camilla Brautaset (2004). How to measure business performance. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Stig Tenold (2009). East of Aden. Norwegian Merchant Shipping in Asia, 1880-1920. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2018). Sailing along the Silk Road. Norwegian trade with China before 1937. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Stig Tenold (2009). East of Aden. Norwegian Merchant Shipping in Asia, 1880-1920. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2007). The Nordic Countries and European integration: Economic and political history and it's relevance for today. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2007). The Nordic countries and the European integration: All roads lead to Rome - or do they?. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2019). Institusjonalisert Kapitalisme? Krakk, Kriser og Kristiania Børs ved inngangen til det 20. århundre. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2015). Foreign Direct Investments, Trade and Economic Globalisation, 1880-1939. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Ola Honningdal Grytten; Elisabeth Bjørsvik (2006). Norwegian Historical National Accounts. Current status. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2006). Methodology. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2018). Glem aldri den nasjonale ydmykelsen - historiske perspektiver på stormakten Kina. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2017). Norske økonomiske interesser i Kina ca. 1890-1940. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Stig Tenold (2012). The Handmaidens of the Sea. Norwegian Merchant Shipping ca. 1700-2000. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2007). Comments on professor Robert Marks book: The Origins of the Modern World. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2012). East of the Sun - West of the Moon. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2007). Globalisation - 200 years of experience. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2007). Globalisering - 200 år med en internasjonal økonomi?. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2016). Network Societies and Global Lives. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2014). Merchants and Missionaries – Connecting China, Norway and beyond. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Stig Tenold (2009). Lost in Calculation? Norwegian Merchant Shipping in Asia, 1870-1914. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Stig Tenold (2009). Norwegian Maritime Histories. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2019). 100 års børshistorie på 10 minutter. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2004). Current status and future progress of the project. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Youssef Cassis (2004). The Performance of European Business in the 20th Century: Some results. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Stig Tenold (2009). Lost in Calculation? Norwegian Merchant Shipping in Asia, 1870-1914. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2008). Handelspolitikk i det 19.århundre. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2008). Globalisation. 200 years of experience. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2012). Wallem & Co: Shipping and Business Networks in the Far East. (external link)
• Terence Gourvish; Camilla Brautaset (2004). Principles, methodologies and possibilities: Belgian firms and the European business performance project. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2017). Wallem. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2015). Migration and business - the role of human capital. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2016). Norwegians in China: Merchants, Missionaries, Migration. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2019). Numbers in History. History in Numbers.. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Regina Grafe (2005). The quiet transport revolution : Norway’s sailing fleet in the 19th century. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Youssef Cassis (2004). The Performance of European Business in the 20th Century: Some methodological issues. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2005). The Performance of European Business in the 20th Century: A project update. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Stig Tenold (2009). Norwegian Maritime Histories. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2017). Norway in China and China in Norway: Histories of globalisation from below. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (1999). Norwegian economic thought and economic policy 1814-1905: Notes on current views and empirical findings. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2000). Handelsflåten og Trelasteksporten. Noen nye beregninger. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Camilla Brautaset (2018). Opium, traktater og tolkninger. Norske utenriksstasjoner i Midtens rike. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2011). When distance matters: the output of the Norwegian merchant fleet, 1830-1865. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2005). Introduction. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2014). 1814 og Alt Det Der : det nasjonaløkonomiske byggverket kjem på plass, 1816-1822. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2018). Med skandinaviske vikingskip på kinesiske sedler. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2018). En maritim silkerute. Norge, Kina og den første globaliseringsbølgen. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Christopher M. Dent (2013). Introduction: diversity and development in Asia. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Regina Grafe (2004). A long distance affair: Shipping and global integration in the 19th century. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2018). Anna Jakobsen og Cheng Xiuqi - en kjærlighetshistorie. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2013). Merchants and missionaries. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Karina Hestad Skeie; Malin Gregersen (2018). Møter med Kina: En introduksjon. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2018). Tran: En transnasjonal historie. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2018). Norges første statsbesøk?. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2002). The emergence of an independent Norwegian economic policy: some notes on current views and empirical findings. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Lars Fredrik M. Øksendal (2013). Fortellinger og Forklaringer i Økonomisk Historie. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2004). Bruttofraktinntekter i norsk skipsfart 1830-1865. (external link)

Academic monograph

• Camilla Brautaset; Gunhild Johnson Ecklund; Lars Fredrik M. Øksendal (2019). Børsen. Markedsplass og møteplass 1819-2019. (external link)

Academic article

• Ola Honningdal Grytten; Camilla Brautaset (1998). Family households and unemployment during years of crisis: New estimates 1926-1939. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Stig Tenold (2008). Globalisation and Norwegian Shipping Policy, 1850-2000. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Stig Tenold (2010). Lost in Calculation? Norwegian Merchant Shipping in Asia, 1870-1914. (external link)
• Stig Tenold; Camilla Brautaset (2008). Globalisation and Norwegian shipping policy, 1850-2000. (external link)

Lecture

• Camilla Brautaset (2012). Kina som globalt møtested: Norske erfaringer i historisk perspektiv. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2014). 1814 og Alt Det Der. Hva betydde politisk selvstendighet for norsk næringsutvikling?. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2014). Kina og Tibet. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2018). Møter med Kina. Norsk diplomati, næringsliv og misjon, 1890-1937. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Karina Hestad Skeie (2018). Møter med Kina. (external link)
• Ingunn Lunde; Ingvild S. Gilhus; Mikkel Ekeland Paulsen et al. (2020). What makes a successful dissertation (both monographs and article-based)? Experiences from previous evaluation committee members. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2005). Forskning innan økonomisk historie. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2006). Er globalisering et nytt fenomen?. (external link)
• Karina Hestad Skeie; Camilla Brautaset (2018). Møter med Kina Bokbad. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2014). Finansdepartementet 200 år. (external link)

Media interview

• Camilla Brautaset (2007). Fra kontanter til kort. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2015). Russlandskonflikten og handelsblokader i historisk perspektiv. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; P1 NRK (2007). Tulipaner og økonomiske bobler. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2014). Kinas historie er fremtiden. (external link)
• Sverre Ole Drønen; Camilla Brautaset (2018). Historien viktig for å forstå Kina i dag. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2012). Dramatiske forandringer på få år. (external link)
• Njord Vegard Svendsen; Camilla Brautaset (2018). Historia ser annleis ut i Bergen enn i Beijing. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2007). Pengesedler: En kollektiv illusjon?. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2012). Forsker på misjon og handel. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2010). Blandet karakter til Wikipedia. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2014). China´s history shapes the future. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2008). I utakt med inntekten. (external link)

Introduction

• Camilla Brautaset; Malin Gregersen; Karina Hestad Skeie (2018). Møter med Kina: en introduksjon. (external link)

Media feature article

• Camilla Brautaset (2008). Økonomiske kriser. Det var verre før. (external link)

Research report

• Camilla Brautaset; Regina Grafe (2006). The Quiet Transport Revolution: Returns to Scale, Scope and Network Density in Norway's Nienteenth-Century Sailing Fleet. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (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)
• Rasmus Tore Slaattelid; Camilla Brautaset; Pär Ola Sandin et al. (2016). Tematiske profilområde ved HF. (external link)

Book anthology

• Camilla Brautaset; Malin Gregersen; Karina Hestad Skeie (2018). Møter med Kina. Norsk diplomati, næringsliv og misjon 1890–1937. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Christopher M. Dent (2013). The Great Diversity: Trajectories of Asian Development. (external link)

Master’s thesis

• Per Kristian Sebak; Camilla Brautaset; Mats Fromreide Svendsen (2016). Med flytende hoteller gjennom urent farvann - Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskabs cruisevirksomhet 1920-1939. (external link)
• Håvard Størksen Ullensvang; Camilla Brautaset; Pål Thonstad Sandvik (2021). Hvordan arvet man et skipsmeglerfirma? En aktørstudie av skipsmeglere fra Joachim Grieg & Co. analysert ut fra en brevsamling 1927-1931. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Martine Jensen (2007). Barne- og ungdomsarbeid i den Bergenske handelsflåten 1800-1900. (external link)
• Åsmund Sæbø; Camilla Brautaset; Pål Thonstad Sandvik (2021). Bananas of the Caribbean, en studie av bergenske skip i den amerikanske fruktfarten 1886-1911. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset; Beate Husetuft (2007). Likskap på for lova? Den norske boikottlova mot Sør-Afrika og Namibia 1986/87. (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Olga Medvedeva; Camilla Brautaset (2017). Norwegian Employees of the Chinese Customs Service, 1890-1927. (external link)

Journal review

• Camilla Brautaset (2005). Kurt Jacobsen; Jydsk Telefon - Verdens Bedste Telefonselskap. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2016). I främmande hamn: Den svenska och svensk- norska konsulattjänsten, 1700–1985. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2005). Søren Federspiel; En Fond i Fokus. Egmont Fondens Almennyttige Virksomhed 1920-2002. Set i Et Samfundsmessig Perspektiv. (external link)

Conference poster

• Camilla Brautaset (2007). Discussing chapter contribution to forthcoming book on European business performance. (external link)

Radio or TV participation

• Camilla Brautaset (2019). Børsens historie. (external link)
• Camilla Brautaset (2008). Den internasjonale finanskrisen høsten 2008. (external link)

Non-fiction book chapter

• Camilla Brautaset (2014). Da gode råd var dyre. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Merchants and Missionaries (project leader)

The History of Oslo Stock Exchange (2016 - 2019)