Ida Clara Blom#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 3394 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
Ida Clara Blom passed away November 26, 2016.
Positions Held
- 1987 Founding member and first President of the International Federation for Research in Women's History
- 1985 University of Bergen, Norway's first professor of women's history
- 1985 University of Bergen, Director of the board of Europe's first Research Centre in Women's History
- 1972 Dr. philos.
- 1961 University of Bergen, Lecturer in history
Fields of Scholarship
- Contemporary political history: Conflicting interests Denmark-Norway regarding Greenland
- Norway's position regarding the European Community
- Women's history: Women's work in family and society
- Women's control of reproduction
- History of diseases and the welfare state: tuberculosis, venereal diseases
- Women's organizations
- Theoretical approaches to women's history
Honours and Awards
- 2008 The university building housing the Centre for Research on Women and Gender as well as the Centre for Theory of Science named Ida Blom’s House
- 2006 Honorary Foreign Member of American Historical Association, 121st annual meeting
- 2001Commander of the Royal Order of St. Olav
- 1996 Member of Kungl. Vitterhets Historie- och Antikvitetsakademin in Sweden
- 1996 Honorary doctor at the University of Copenhagen
- 1993 Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
