Helena Bergman
Associate Professor
Senior Lecturer
Associate professor in History, specializing in gender history. Subject coordinator, History. Director of PhD level studies/ Historical studies & UVS/History.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F918
I am an associate professor in History, specializing in gender history. My research interests include welfare state history, history of knowledge and professions, as well as childhood and family history. A recent project focused on the intersections of knowledge and policy within Swedish welfare politics, by the example of alcohol and substance abuse (together with Johan Edman, Lena Eriksson, and Katarina Winter). In current research, I combine the approaches of gender, childhood and knowledge history and investigate Swedish 20th century knowledge production about children's, adolescents' and pregnant women's alcohol and food consumption.
A recent publication in English is the article ”Acceptable use: Morality and credibility struggles in Swedish 1960s alcohol and illicit drug (ab)use research and policy”, together with Lena Eriksson, Minerva vol. 60 (2022), p. 419-440.
The researcher is not participating in any projects at this moment.