I work at the Division of History, Art History and Religious Studies (HKR) on Campus Valla, where I am also responsible for the research environment Social sciences education research and (together with Maritha Johansson) responsible for the doctoral programme Pedagogic practices in subject-specific education. My professorship is funded by the Catharina Högbom and Michael Cocozza Foundation.
Before I took up my position as professor of local history, I worked for twelve years as an associate professor and senior associate professor of history at Linköping University, and before that as a historian at Uppsala University and the University of Gävle. My research has dealt with local history, history of education, historiography and history education, and has been funded by, among others, the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish National Heritage Board, the Swedish School Research Institute and the Ridderstad Foundation.
I am assistant editor at the journal Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. I have at times been director of studies in history and responsible for the history teacher education at Linköping University. As a visiting researcher or guest teacher, I have been with UNC Chapel Hill, the University of Calcutta and Sheffield Hallam University. I have also been president of Sweden’s History Teachers’ Association and of Linköping’s associations archive.
