About
Pål Csaszni Halvorsen has a PhD in sociology, and currently works on a project about cultural life in Norway during the German occupation (1940-1945) and treatment of writers in the purge after the occupation.
Halvorsen is responsible for two courses that are taught in English at OsloMet; BIBV3040 - Digital media and culture, og MBIB4890 - Digital cultural heritage. He also holds lectures on media and sociology of literature in other courses. Halvorsen supervises BA- and MA-students.
Halvorsen has been visiting researcher at the Center for Cultural Sociology ved Yale university (2017-2018) and at Eötvös Lorand University (ELTE) in Budapest (2024). His research has been published in Poetics, Gender and Education, Journal of Youth Studies og Nordic Journal of Cultural Policy.
He has served as the president for the Norwegian Sociological Association (2024-2026), and chairman for the Norwegian Journal of Sociology (2024-2026).
Research methods: Mostly qualitative methods, text analysis, participant observation, interviews and focus group interviews.
Field of study
Sociology of culture Sociology of literature Social theory Class analysis
Research groups
Research projects
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Publications and research
Scientific publications
Halvorsen, Pål Csaszni
(2026).
Cultural Sociology and Literature.
Spillman, Lynette (Ed.).
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Sociology.
Oxford University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197852729.003.0143
Halvorsen, Pål Csaszni
(2026).
Litterært landssvik. Forfatterne som ble etterforsket i landssvikoppgjøret.
ISBN: 9788245053166.
334 p.
Fagbokforlaget.
https://doi.org/10.55669/oa7912
Halvorsen, Pål Csaszni
(2026).
The House Before the Dark Set in. Norwegian Writers’ Constructions of Reality in Five Novels, 1930–1940.
Holand, Astrid Marie; Ravnå, Per Bjarne; Aarup, Frederik Grønbæk; Solverson, Elizabeth Jean; Olsen, Karianne Sørgård; Ellingsen, Tanja (Ed.).
Reality in Our Times. Reaching Reality Beyond the Post-Truth Condition. p. 211-232.
De Gruyter Brill.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111703886-009
Holand, Astrid Marie; Ravnå, Per Bjarne; Aarup, Frederik Grønbæk; Solverson, Elizabeth Jean; Olsen, Karianne Sørgård; Ellingsen, Tanja; Ford, Dom;
Johannessen, Stig O.
; Christophersen, Axel; Larrea, Beñat Elortza;
Halvorsen, Pål Csaszni
; Ojala, Martta Karoliina; Mohammed, Jowan Abbas; Stjernström, Olof Andreas; Wollan, Gjermund; Dyrstad, Jørgen
(2026).
Reality in Our Times. Reaching Reality Beyond the Post-Truth Condition.
ISBN: 9783111703886.
394 p.
De Gruyter Brill.
https://doi.org/https://www.degruyterbrill.com/doc
Hjellbrekke, Johannes;
Halvorsen, Pål Csaszni
; Jakobsen, Kjetil Ansgar; Arneberg, Sofie
(2025).
Literary practices, capital structures and political position-taking: The Norwegian writers during World War II.
Poetics.
Vol. 109.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101981
Jakobsen, Kjetil Ansgar;
Halvorsen, Pål Csaszni
(2024).
Special issue: ‘Authoritarianism and culture’.
Acta Sociologica.
Vol. 67.
https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993241232810
Halvorsen, Pål
(2024).
Egalitarian Consecration. The making of egalitarian Norway and historical elite institutions.
ISBN: 9788245049459.
149 p.
Fagbokforlaget.
https://doi.org/10.55669/oa3702
Halvorsen, Pål
;
Ljunggren, Jørn
(2020).
A new generation of business masculinity? Privileged high school boys in a gender egalitarian context.
Gender and Education.
Vol. 33.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2020.1792845
Halvorsen, Pål
(2020).
A sense of unease: elite high school students negotiating historical privilege.
Journal of Youth Studies.
Vol. 25.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2020.1844169
Halvorsen, Anne;
Halvorsen, Pål
(2019).
Managerial responses to expectations about innovation in municipal welfare
services.
Støkken, Anne Marie (Ed.).
Tjenesteutvikling ved ulike former for samarbeid. p. 45-60.
Fagbokforlaget.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4981589
