Academic interests
My research looks at how science communicates. In the nineteenth century, an astounding array of scientific images, diagrams, and models was printed, copied, and transferred between major European capitals and peripheries alike. They contributed to the stabilization of a scientific way of seeing at a time when natural science and religion were competing for authority. In my thesis, I trace three widely circulated motifs - a microscopic view of a drop of water teeming with microbial life, a fetus in its mother's womb, and the Earth as seen from space - to investigate the historically specific problems they were mobilized to solve. By combining close visual analysis with media theory and the history of science, I make the argument that they became ideograms for a scientific movement that fought hard to convince the public that it was able to carry the weight of cosmology.
Positions and awards
Representative for temporary academic staff, IKOS Department board, 2025.
Editorial member of Babylon. Nordic Journal for Middle East Studies.
Recipient of The Norwegian Historical Association's (HIFO) Fritt ord-stipend for 2024.
Background
Visiting researcher, The Warburg Institute, University of London, 2025.
Project coordinator/Research assistant, IKOS, 2019-2023.
MA in History, University of Oslo, 2023.
BA in Middle Eastern Studies with Arabic, University of Oslo, 2019.
BA in History, University of Oslo and Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2017.