Nationality Norwegian Alma mater University of Oslo | Name Geir Hogsnes | |
Born 2 December 1950
Snasa, Norway ( 1950-12-02 ) Died 3 June 2009(2009-06-03) (aged 58)
Oslo, Norway Fields sociology (labor market, wages) Institutions Norwegian Institute for Social Research
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
University of Oslo | ||
Geir Lennart Høgsnes (2 December 1950 - 3 June 2009) was a Norwegian sociologist. He did research on labor and wages, and spent the better part of his academic career at the Norwegian Institute for Social Research and the University of Oslo. He was a professor until 2009, when he was found dead in his home under uncertain circumstances.
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Academic career
He hailed from Snåsa. He obtained the mag.art. degree (PhD equivalent) in sociology at the University of Oslo in 1981, and took the dr.polit. degree in 1994. He was a researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Social Research from 1981 to 1998, was an associate professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology from 1996 to 1998 and the University of Oslo from 1999 to 2000. In 2000 he became a professor at the University of Oslo. He headed the Department of Sociology and Human Geography from 2002 to 2007.
He was the editor of the journal Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning from 1999 to 2005.
He has been interviewed about the disparity between men's and women's earnings and on strike actions by Norwegian workers. He has also done research on the role of women, elderly workers and immigrants in Norway's labor market.
Death
Høgsnes was found dead with his wife, whom he had married three months earlier, in their Uranienborg apartment on 3 June 2009. His wife, a Chinese citizen, reportedly wrote a goodbye letter styled to her family in Chinese. Other clues were scarce, but the police speculated that his wife was behind the death, or that it may have been a double suicide.