Academic interests and background
I am a historian on modern Norway, Scandinavia/Norden, and my publications span feminism and democracy, business, gender and entrepreneurship, the history of emotions and knowledge, theory and methods. I studied at the University of Bergen (UiB) and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and worked at Stein Rokkan Centre of Social Research (NORCE), Bergen, Forum for University History, at the University of Oslo (UiO), Norwegian Business School BI, and The Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, before returning to the UiO in 2017. I am currently serving as Head of Department (2025-28) and have previously represented permanent staff on The Departement Board of IAKH (2021-24). For the period 2024-27, I am also serving as head of board; The Centre for Gender Research (STK) on behalf of the Faculty of Humanities, UiO.
I am leading the research group Democracy, Freedom and Boundaries and was previously among the leaders of the interdisciplinary research project Nordic Branding: The Politics of Exceptionalism (2017 - 2021) financed by the UiO:Nordic. At the moment I participate in the ongoing research project Experiencing American Democracy (ExAm) under the UiO:Democracy.
Courses taught
HIS 4010: Historiske grunnlagsproblemer: Teori og historiografi (Theory and historiography - a compulsory course for new master students of history)
EXFAC03-Hark Examen facultatum for historie, arkeologi og konservering
HIS 4012:Theory in Practice: Classics of History
HIS 4220: Emosjoner i historisk perspektiv (Emotions in a historical perspective)
HIS 1000: Innføring i historiefaget (Introduction to the field of history)
ILN 2100/4100 Digital Humanities
PhD students
Sven Arild Storberget, Oslo MET (Down among the "history cultivators": A narratological, historiographical and professional historical analysis of four Norwegian lecturers as historians, ca. 1905 – 1960).
Mona Holm, UiO and Anno Museum (Dreams about «Nylænde». Transatlantic connections among women’s rights leaders and suffragists in Norway and the USA 1880-1925).
Terjei Johannesen Vågstøl, UiO and Volda University College (Notions of 'gender', 'Norway' and the 'Nordics' in the Norwegian solidarity movement, 1965-1990).