Fredrik Engelstad is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 sociologist. He has written several books.

He is the son of writer Carl Fredrik Engelstad

Carl Fredrik Engelstad

Carl Johan Fredrik Engelstad was a Norwegian writer, playwright, journalist, translator and theatre director.-Personal life:...

 and physician Vibeke Engelstad, and a nephew of archivist Sigurd Engelstad

Sigurd Engelstad

Sigurd Engelstad was a Norwegian genealogist and archivist.Engelstad was born in Hadsel as the son of jurist Sigurd Engelstad and older brother of writer Carl Fredrik Engelstad...

. He is married to professor Irene Johnson.

Engelstad earned the dr.philos. degree in 1989. He was an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oslo

University of Oslo

The University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...

 from 1991 to 2007, and has been a Professor since 2008. He was a research director at the Norwegian Institute for Social Research

Norwegian Institute for Social Research

The Norwegian Institute for Social Research is a social science research institute based in Oslo, Norway.It was founded in 1950 by Vilhelm Aubert, Arne Næss, Eirik Rinde, and Stein Rokkan. It cooperates closely with the University of Oslo and the Research Council of Norway, but is a contract-based...

 from 1986 to 2007, and has been the director of the Institute for Social Research since 1997.

He has been a Visiting Fellow at Yale University

Yale University

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 (1981), the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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 (1993), the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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 (1996) and the Northwestern University

Northwestern University

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 (2006).

Selected works

• Fredrik Engelstad, ed. (1999) Om makt. Teori og kritikk. Oslo: AdNotam Gyldendal
• Fredrik Engelstad, Carl Erik Grenness
  Carl Erik Grenness
  Carl-Erik Grenness is a Norwegian professor of psychology.Grenness has spent most of his career as a Professor at the University of Oslo, and has been active in many aspects of psychology, including philosophical psychology, behavioural analysis, organisational psychology and organisational studies...
  
  , Ragnvald Kalleberg and Raino Malnes (1998), Samfunn og vitenskap. Oslo: AdNotam Gyldendal
• Fredrik Engelstad (1992), Kjærlighetens irrganger. Sinn og samfunn i Bjørnsons og Ibsens diktning. Oslo: Gyldendal
• Fredrik Engelstad (1990), Likhet og styring. Deltakerdemokratiet på prøve. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget
• Dag Østerberg and Fredrik Engelstad (1992), Samfunnsformasjonen. 3. edition. Oslo: Pax