Academic interests
My research interests are within economic and social history and business history. My main research areas concerns (1) formal education and practical learning for innovation and economic performance, and how these played out in different industries and (2) access to education, educational opportunity and the historical impact of education on social mobility, and differences in this regard between genders and regions. I am the program leader of The value of social background, education, academic performance and work experience: Following the life course of Scandinavian high school, technical school and university-level graduate cohorts 1880-1920 funded by Handelsbankens Forskningsstifelser where we use Scandinavian biographies as main sources.
Courses taught
June 2020 - June 2022: EKHA62 Hållbar utveckling – debatt, teori och empiri, bachelor course (course coordinator), the Department of Economic History, Lund University.
January 2020 - June 2022: EKHK30 Teori och metod, bachelor course, the Department of Economic History, Lund University.
Autumn 2018 - November 2021: EKHA61 Miljöhistoria ur ett ekonomiskt perspektiv, bachelor course (course coordinator), the Department of Economic History, Lund University.
Spring 2019 – autumn 2019: EKHA22 Världens ekonomiska historia, bachelor course, the Department of Economic History, Lund University.
Spring 2017: HIS 1300 MET, bachelor course, the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, the University of Oslo.
Autumn 2016 and autumn 2017: HIS1110 Røros kobberverk i tidlig modern tid, bachelor course (course coordinator), the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, the University of Oslo.
Background
My academic background is in Economic History. I hold a Doctorate in Economic History from the University of Geneva, Switzerland (2015), and a Master's degree in Latin American Studies, from the University of Bergen (2008). I worked as postdoctoral fellow at the IAKH, on the project Copper in the Early Modern Period. A Comparative Study of Work and Everyday Life in Falun and Røros from 2015 to 2018, and I was a visitor at the Centre for Business History at Copenhagen Business School for one year (2016-2017). I then moved on to the Department of Economic History, Lund University in 2018. I was postdoctoral fellow at Lund until August 2020. I was subsequently engaged as researcher and senior lecturer, and gained the title docent at Lund. I am currently head of research training at IAKH.
Awards
May 2016 – May 2017: Scholarship for postdoctoral fellows, The Research Council of Norway. Stay abroad at the Centre for Business History, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Copenhagen.
Positions held
July 2022 - present: Associate Professor, the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, the University of Oslo.
January 2022 – June 2022: Senior Lecturer, the Department of Economic History, Lund University.
September 2020 – December 2021: Researcher, the Department of Economic History, Lund University.
April 2018 – August 2020: Postdoctoral fellow, the Department of Economic History, Lund University.
December 2015 – October 2018: Postdoctoral fellow, the Department of Archaeology,
Conservation and History, the University of Oslo.
May 2012 – June 2012: Research assistant, the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, the University of Oslo.