My main research interests are agrarian social relations during the 18th and 19th centuries, gender history and labour history. Since January 2025, I work in the project "The benevolent patriarch? How crises reveal early modern households' labour organisation and the reach of patriarchal care across the Baltic Sea, 1723-1809", financed by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies. In this project, I study court cases regarding servants in Sweden and Finland during crises, such as harvest failures or epidemics, in order to understand what happens to servants in these situations, and in extent, how far-reaching the care of the early modern household was.

I am also working with servants' wages and household relations at large estates, and how wages have been used to control and relate to servants. The project "One's just reward? Servants' wages, terms of employment and tangible assets in a changing manorial economy, 1730-1870" is financed by Handelsbankens forskningsstiftelser.

Previously, I have studied gender division of work and economic chance in the project “Challenging the domestic. Gender division of labour and economic change studied through 19th century crofters’ households”, a three-year project funded by the the Swedish Research Council, at the Department of Economic History and International Relations at Stockholm University. In this project, I studied crofters’ households in the Swedish manorial economy.

I defended my thesis in Economic history in 2018 at the University of Gothenburg. In my thesis, Servants and masters (I husbondens bröd och arbete), I studied servants in agrarian households. I used theories on power relations derived from gender history and institutional theory in order to analyse the social relations that were created in the servant institution. Between 2019-2021 I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Economic History at Lund University, in the project “Dynamic peasants? Agency and inequality in Swedish modernization”. In this project, I studied the peasant farmers’ agency in the Diet of the four estates. In this project, I studied the peasant farmer politicians’ standpoint on the Servant Acts, in which I was analysing their double position as law makers and masters/employers to servants. Another part was about large landowners political acting in order to secure power over their tenants in the municipal voting procedures.

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