CURRICULUM VITAE
1. SURNAME Smith
2. NAME Peter Scharff 3. DATE OF BIRTH 20 September 1971 4. NATIONALITY Danish
5. CIVIL STATUS Married
6. EDUCATION
Institution Roskilde University
Date: from (months/year) to (months/year)
1991-1998
Degree(s) or diploma(s) Masters degree in History and Social Sciences
Institution Copenhagen University
Date: from (months/year) to (months/year)
1999 – 2002 Degree(s) or diploma(s) PhD in History
Institution The Danish Institute for Human Rights
Date: from (months/year) to (months/year)
12-27 March 2004 Degree(s) or diploma(s) Human Rights Course
Institution Oxford University/UNHCHR/APT
Date: from (months/year) to (months/year)
2006 (eight week distance learning course + workshop) Degree(s) or diploma(s) Course on Prevention of Torture
Institution Ankerhus
Date: from (months/year) to (months/year)
2008-2009
Degree(s) or diploma(s) Management course 7. LANGUAGE SKILLS
Mark 1 to 5 for competence, where 5 is the highest
Language Passive Spoken Written
Danish 5 5 5
English 5 5 4
German 3 2 2
Swedish 5 4 3
8. MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES
Founding member of the research network Scandinavian Studies of Confinement.
Member of “Børneforum” (“Childrens forum”). An expert advisory group within the Danish Prison Service.
Member of “OPCAT-rådet” (the OPCAT Council) administered by the Danish Ombudsman.
Member of the steering committee for the project “Dads behind bars” in Vestre Prison in Copenhagen.
9. OTHER SKILLS (E.G. COMPUTER LITERACY, ETC.)
10. PRESENT POSITION
Senior Research Fellow at DIHR
Visiting Senior Research Fellow at The Royal Danish Defense College
11. YEARS WITHIN THE COMPANY Eight years at DIHR (from January 2004)
12. KEY QUALIFICATIONS
I have extensive experience of conducting interdisciplinary research in many different settings, on several different topics, and based at different institutions including the University of Cambridge, the
University of Copenhagen, the Danish National Archive, and the Danish Institute for Human Rights.
During the last decade my research has focused on two different fields: 1) prisons and human rights, prison history, and ideologies of punishment; 2) the history of the Waffen SS and the Nazi war of extermination at the Eastern front. Two focal areas within the first field has been the use and effects of solitary confinement in prisons, and the problems and rights of children of imprisoned parents, and I have published extensively on both topics in books and articles in Denmark and internationally. I have also within these and related fields worked systematically and methodologically with a
combination of research, project work, dialogue, partnerships, awareness raising, and advocacy in an attempt to create concrete reforms and human rights implementation in Denmark and
internationally.
13. SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE (IN NON-EU MEMBER COUNTRIES)
USA 2000 Visiting Scholar at NYU (New York University)
14. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Date: from (months/year) to (months/year)
January 2010 -
Location Copenhagen, Denmark
Company The Danish Institute for Human Rights
Position Senior Research Fellow
Description
Date: from (months/year) to (months/year)
January 2010 -
Location Copenhagen, Denmark
Company The Royal Danish Defense College Position Visiting Senior Research Fellow Description
Date: from (months/year) to (months/year)
August 2007 – December 2009
Location Copenhagen, Denmark
Company The Danish Institute for Human Rights
Position Research Director
Description
Date: from (months/year) to (months/year)
January 2004 – July 2007
Location Copenhagen, Denmark
Company The Danish Institute for Human Rights
Position Senior Research Fellow Description
Date: from (months/year) to (months/year)
2002-2003
Location Copenhagen, Denmark
Company University of Copenhagen
Position Affiliated Lecturer
Description
Date: from (months/year) to (months/year)
1999-2002
Location Copenhagen, Denmark
Company University of Copenhagen
Position PhD scholar
Description
Date: from (months/year) to (months/year)
1998-1999
Location Copenhagen, Denmark
Company The National Archive
Position Archivist
Description
Date: from (months/year) to (months/year)
October 2003 – September 2004
Location Cambridge, UK
Company Cambridge University, Clare Hall College
Position Visiting Fellow (awarded the Carlsberg Clare Hall Visiting Fellowship) Description
Date: from (months/year) to (months/year)
2002-2003
Location Lund, Sweden
Company Lund University
Position Affiliated Lecturer
Description
15. OTHERS
Main Research Interests:
Prisons and human rights; Solitary confinement internationally and in Denmark; Children of
emprisoned parents; Prison practises and prison history internationally and in Denmark; Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; The American treatment of presumed terrorists at Guantanamo, at facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan; Danes in the Waffen SS and nazi warfare.
My list of publications:
http://menneskeret.dk/hvad+arbejder+vi+med/fokusomr%c3%a5der/forskning/publikationslister/pet er+scharff+smith
