{"id":2,"date":"2020-02-21T08:52:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T08:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uni.hi.is\/vilhelmv\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2021-05-10T08:45:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T08:45:25","slug":"about_me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/vilhelmv\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a PhD in history from the University of Iceland and currently work as the director of the University of Iceland Research Centre in Northwest Iceland, which is a full-time academic research position. I am also editor of the peer-reviewed journal <a href=\"https:\/\/saga.sogufelag.is\/?lang=en\">SAGA<\/a>, an Icelandic-language journal of history.<\/p>\n<p>My main research focus is on coercive labour relations and the power relations of everyday life in preindustrial Iceland, particularly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Other research fields which I work on occasionally include the history of Icelandic immigrants in North America, the regional history of NW-Iceland, the role of arbitration commissions in nineteenth century Iceland and historical theory and methodology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a PhD in history from the University of Iceland and currently work as the director of the University of Iceland Research Centre in Northwest Iceland, which is a full-time academic research position. I am also editor of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/vilhelmv\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1540,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/vilhelmv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/vilhelmv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/vilhelmv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/vilhelmv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1540"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/vilhelmv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/vilhelmv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/vilhelmv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/vilhelmv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}