This is an overview of my published work. Note that various items are linked to published content on the Internet.

Books:

Wasteland with Words (London: Reaktion Books, 2010). 288 pages. 

Icelandic Culture II. Written in the Honor of Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon 50 Years Old (Reykjavik, 2007). 156 pages. 

Academic Liturgy. Humanities and the Society of Scholars (Reykjavik: The Centre for Microhistorical Research, 2007). – Akademísk helgisiðafræði: Hugvísindi og háskólasamfélag (Reykjavík: Miðstöð einsögurannsókna, 2007).

The History War: Essays and Narratives on Ideology (Reykjavik: The Icelandic University Press, 2006). – Sögustríð: Greinar og frásagnir um hugmyndafræði (Reykjavík: Háskólaútgáfan, 2006).

From Re-evaluation to Disintegration: Two Examination Theses, One Preface, Three Interviews, Seven Articles, Five Photographs, One Postscript and Some Obituaries From the the Humanities. , The Nameless series. Edited by Hilma Gunnarsdóttir, Jón Þór Pétursson and Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon. Published by the Center for Microhistorical Research and the Reykjavik Academy, 2006. – (Frá endurskoðun til upplausnar. Tvær prófritgerðir, einn formáli, þrjú viðtöl, sjö fræðigreinar, fimm ljósmyndir, einn eftirmáli og nokkrar minningargreinar af vettvangi hugvísinda. Ritstjórar Hilma Gunnarsdóttir, Jón Þór Pétursson og Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon (Reykjavík: Miðstöð einsögurannsókna og ReykjavíkurAkademían, 2006).

Metastories: Memory, Recollection, and History. Anthology from Icelandic Popular Culture 11. Published by the Icelandic University Press, 2005. 429 pages. - Sjálfssögur. Minni, minningar og saga. Gestaritstjóri Soffía Auður Birgisdóttir. Sýnisbók íslenskrar alþýðumenningar 11 (Reykjavík: Háskólaútgáfan, 2005).

Dreams of Things Past: Life Writing in Iceland. Anthology from Icelandic Popular Culture 9. Published by the Icelandic University Press, 2004. 427 pages. - (Fortíðardraumar. Sjálfsbókmenntir á Íslandi. Gestaritstjóri Guðmundur Hálfdanarson. Sýnisbók íslenskrar alþýðumenningar 9 (Reykjavík: Háskólaútgáfan, 2004)).

Soft Spots. Published by the Center for Microhistorical Research and The Reykjavík Museum of Photography, 2004. 141 pages - (Snöggir blettir (Reykjavík, 2004)).

 

Rumor, Scandals, Trials in History. Eight extended review essays. Edited by Hilma Gunnarsdóttir og Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon. An online publications in Icelandic – www.kistan.is 2003

 

Pieces and Molds. About Microhistory and Lost Time. Incidence 5. Co-authorship with Carlo Ginzburg and Davið Ólafsson. Published by the Reykjavik Academy and Bjartur Publishing, 2000. 147 pages. - (Molar og mygla. Um einsögu og glataðan tíma. Atvik 5. Meðhöfundar Carlo Ginzburg og Davíð Ólafsson. Ritstjórar Ólafur Rastrick og Valdimar Tr. Hafstein (Reykjavik, 2000)).

The Sound of Divine Revelation. A Diary, Autobiography, Letters and Poems of Magnus Hj. Magnusson. Anthology from Icelandic Popular Culture 2. Published by the Icelandic University Press, 1998. 423 pages. - (Kraftbirtingarhljómur Guðdómsins. Dagbók, sjálfsævisaga, bréf og kvæði Magnúsar Hj. Magnússonar, skáldsins á Þröm. Sýnisbók íslenskrar alþýðumenningar 2 (Reykjavík: Háskólaútgáfan, 1998)).

Microhistory - Conflicting Paths. Eight Essays and One Sculpture. Sigurdur Gylfi Magnusson and Erla Hulda Halldordsottir, (eds.). Published by the Icelandic University Press, 1998. 247 pages. - (Einsagan - ólíkar leiðir. Átta ritgerðir og eitt myndlistarverk. Ritstjórar Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon og Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir (Reykjavík: Háskólaútgáfan, 1998)).

Brothers from the Stranda Commune. Diaries, Love Letters, Private Letters, Autobiography, Notebooks and Handwritten Material from the 19th Century.Anthology from Icelandic Popular Culture. Published by the Icelandic University Press, 1997. 323 pages. - (Bræður frá Ströndum: Dagbækur, ástarbréf, almenn bréf, sjálfsævisaga, minnisbækur og samtíningur frá 19. öld. Sýnisbók íslenskrar alþýðumenningar (Reykjavík: Háskólaútgáfan, 1997)).

Education, Love and Grief. A Micro-Historical Analyses of the 19th and the 20th Century Peasant Society in Iceland. Studia Historica 13. Published by the Institute of History and the Icelandic University Press, 1997. 339 pages. - (Menntun, ást og sorg. Einsögurannsókn á íslensku sveitasamfélagi 19. og 20. aldar. Sagnfræðirannsóknir 13 (Reykjavík: Háskólaútgáfan, 1997)).

The Continuity of Everyday Life: Popular Culture in Iceland 1850-1940. Doctoral dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, 1993. 416 pages.

Modes of Living in Reykjavík 1930-1940. Studia Historica 7. Published by the Institute of History and Menningarsjóður, 1985. 160 pages. - (Lífshættir í Reykjavík 1930-1940. Sagnfræðirannsóknir 7 (Reykjavík: Bókaútgáfa Menningarsjóðs, 1985)).

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Articles in English:

"Social History as "Sites of Memory"? The Institutionalization of History: Microhistory and the Grand Narrative." Will be published in Journal of Social History March 2006.

"Iceland: a 20th-Century Case of Selective Modernization." Encyclopedia of Europe 1914-2004. Scribner World History European Series. Editors in Chief Jay Winter and John Merriman (New York, 2006).

"Iceland: Through the Slow Process of Social and Cultural Change." Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Editor in Chief Peter N. Stearns (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).

"The Singularization of History: Social History and Microhistory within the Postmodern State of Knowledge." Journal of Social History, 36 (Spring 2003), pp. 701-735.

"Barefoot Historians: Education in Iceland in the Modern Period." Co-author Davíð Ólafsson. Writing Peasants. Studies on Peasant Literacy in Early Modern Northern Europe. Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt and Bjørn Poulsen (eds.). Landbohistorisk Selskab (Århus 2002), pp. 175-209.

"Barefoot Historians: Education in Iceland." Co-author Davíð Ólafsson. Rustica Nova. The New Countryside and Transformations in Operating Environment. Kalle Pihlainen and Erik Tirkkonen (eds.) (Turku, 2002), pp. 165-178. Printed paper given at a conference in Finland 1999.

"The Contours of Social History - Microhistory, Postmodernism and Historical Sources." Mod nye historier. Rapporter til Det 24. Nordiske Historikermøde. Bind 3. Redigeret af Carsten Tage Nielsen, Dorthe Gert Simonsen og Lene Wul (Århus, 2001), pp. 83-107.

"From Children's Point of View: Childhood in Nineteenth Century Iceland." Journal of Social History, 29 (winter 1995), pp. 295-323.

"World War II in the Lives of Black Americans: Some Findings and an Interpretation." Co-authorship with John Modell and Marc Goulden. Journal of American History, 76 (December 1989), pp. 838-848.

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Articles in Icelandic:

"Aðferð í uppnámi. Tuttugasta öldin vegin." ("Method Facing a Dilemma. Re-evaluating the 20th Century"). Saga, 41 (vor 2003), pp. 15-54.

"Að stíga tvisvar í sama strauminn. Til varnar sagnfræði. Síðari grein." ("To Step Twice in the Same Stream. In Defense of History. Second Part"). Skírnir, 177 (vor 2003), pp. 127-158.

"Að kasta ellibelgnum. Hugmyndafræði sagnfræðilegrar heimildaútgáfu." ("To Through Out the Old. The Ideology of Text Publication"). 2. íslenska söguþingið 30. maí - 1. júní 2002. Ráðstefnurit II. Riststjóri Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir (Reykjavík, 2002), pp. 144-159.

"Fanggæsla vanans. Til varnar sagnfræði. Fyrri grein." ("In the Name of Old Habits. In Defense of History. First Part"). Skírnir, 176 (haust 2002), pp. 371-400.

"Einsaga á villigötum?" ("Microhistory on the Wrong Track?"). Íslenskir sagnfræðingar. Seinna bindi. Viðhorf og rannsóknir. Ritstjórar Loftur Guttormsson, Páll Björnsson, Sigrún Pálsdóttir og Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon (Reykjavík: Mál og mynd, 2002), pp. 467-476.

"Sársaukans land. Vesturheimsferðir og íslensk hugsun." ("Country of Pain. Imigrations to Canada and the United States and the Icelandic Mind"). Burt - og meir en bæjarleið. Dagbækur og persónuleg skrif Vesturheimsfara á síðari hluta 19. aldar. Sýnisbók íslenskrar alþýðumenningar 5. Davíð Ólafsson og Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon tóku saman (Reykjavík: Háskólaútgáfan, 2001), pp. 9-69.

"Einvæðing sögunnar." ("The Singularization of History"). Molar og mygla. Um einsögu og glataðan tíma. Atvik 5. Meðhöfundar Carlo Ginzburg og Davíð Ólafsson. Ritstjórar Ólafur Rastrick og Valdimar Tr. Hafstein (Reykjavik, 2000), pp. 100-141.

"Magnús og mýtan." ("Magnús and the Myth."). Kraftbirtingarhljómur Guðdómsins. Dagbók, sjálfsævisaga, bréf og kvæði Magnúsar Hj. Magnússonar, skáldsins á Þröm. Sýnisbók íslenskrar alþýðumenningar (Reykjavík: The Icelandic University Press, 1998), pp. 11-89.

"Félagssagan fyrr og nú." ("Social History Now and Then"). Einsagan - ólíkar leiðir. Átta ritgerðir og eitt myndlistarverk. Ritstjórar Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon og Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir (Reykjavík: The Icelandic University Press, 1998), pp. 17-50.

"Kynjasögur á 19. og 20. öld? Hlutverkaskipan í íslensku samfélagi." ("Modern Fairy Tales? Gender Roles in Icelandic Society"). Saga, (spring 1997), pp. 137-177.

"Heimskuleg spurning fær háðulegt svar: Orð og æði - minni og merking." ("Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer! Words and Actions - Memory and Meaning." Co-authorship with Jón Jónsson. Published by the Institute of History). Íslenska söguþingisð 28.-31. maí 1997. Ráðstefnurit II. Meðhöfundur Jón Jónsson (Reykjavík, 1998).

""Dauðinn er lækur, en lífið er strá." Líf og dauði á nítjándu öld." (""Death is a river, but life is a straw": Death in Nineteenth Century Iceland"). Eitt sinn skal hver deyja. Dauðinn í íslenskum veruleika. Ed.: Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson (Reykjavík: Mokka-Press, 1996), pp. 128-142.

""Jeg er 479 dögum ýngri en Nilli." Dagbækur og daglegt líf Halldórs Jónssonar frá Miðdalsgröf." (""I am 479 Days Younger than Nilli." Diaries and Daily Life of Halldór Jónsson from Miðdalsgröf"). Skírnir, 169 (fall 1995), pp. 309-347.

"Siðferðilegar fyrirmyndir á 19. öld." ("Moral Models in the Nineteenth Century"). Ný Saga, 7 (1995), pp. 57-72.

"Alþýðumenning á Íslandi 1850-1940." ("Popular Culture in Iceland 1850-1940"). Íslensk þjóðfélagsþróun 1880-1990. Ritgerðir. Ritstjórar: Guðmundur Hálfdanarson og Svanur Kristjánsson (Reykjavík: Félagsvísindastofnun og Sagnfræðistofnun, 1993), pp. 265-320.

"Hugarfarið og samtíminn. Framþróunarkenningin og vestræn samfélög." ("Mentality and Modern Times. The Modernization Theory and Western Societies"). Ný Saga, 2 (1988), pp. 28-39.

"Vesturgata 30." ("The Family at Vesturgata 30"). Sagnir, 6 (1985), pp. 6-12.

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Book reviews:

"Proto-Industrialization in Scandinavia: Craft Skills in the Industrial Revolution." By Matts Isacson and Lars Magnusson, Journal of Social History, (winter 1988), pp. 396-398.

"Family and Household in Iceland 1801-1930: Studies in the Relationship Between Demographic and Social-Economic Development, Social Legislation and Family and Household Structures." By Gísli Ágúst Gunnlaugsson, Journal of Social History, (fall 1990), pp. 188-190.

"Conflicting Paths. Growing Up in America." By Harvey J. Graff, Journal of Social History, (spring 1997).

"Rethinking Home. A Case for Writing Local History." By Joseph A. Amato (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2002). Journal of Social History, 2006.

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