Tim van Gerven (Amsterdam, 1989) successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Amsterdam in July 2020. His dissertation studied Scandinavism as a primarily cultural movement, which, notwithstanding its failure as a political mobilizer, strengthened and extended national consciousness-raising in the various Scandinavian nationalities by stressing common ethnolinguistic, mythological and historical roots. He currently works as a teacher in Modern European History at the departments for History and European Studies.