Research
Sport history, cultural history of sports, media history:
Teaching
Sports history, intellectual history, media history, sustainable development
Short biography
Gudmund Skjeldal, b. 1970, is assistent professor the Institute of Sport and Social Sciences and he defended his thesis: “An intellectual history of the amateur concept in the Norwegian sports public sphere, 1866-1907” in 2022.
He graduated Master in Intellectual History in 2001 (University in Oslo). He is an author of several non-fiction books – a biography on the poet Nordahl Grieg (2012), a history of the newspaper Bergens Tidende (2017), and an essay on the tennis tournament and venue Wimbledon (2017), among them. Skjeldal was a professional cross country-skier in the 1990’ies, nowadays an amateur tennis player and nature photographer.