I am a historian of science, religion, and political economy, specialised in northern Europe. I obtained my doctorate in history at the University of Oxford in 2022, and subsequently worked there as a British research council postdoctoral fellow in 2023. I also held various short-term fellowships in the USA, Italy, Sweden, and the Netherlands.
I am a European research council postdoctoral researcher at Jyväskylä since 2024, within the ERC-Consolidator project 'De-centring political economy in the eighteenth century: rethinking growth, wealth, and welfare in the Swedish Empire' led by professor Ere Nokkala. In this project, running until 2028, I am working on the links between political economy and colonial expansion in early modern Sweden.
I am also an associate researcher at Oxford, and an associate fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
More details about my research, along with open access links to all my publications can be found on my personal website:
My research interests encompass the following areas:
• History of political economy, colonialism, and slavery
• History of science, medicine, and religion (1500-1900)
• Natural science and environmental history
• History of the body, race, and sexuality
• History of literature and satire
• European, Atlantic, and Nordic history
I am currently focusing on two projects:
• Within the ERC-Consolidator 'De-centring 18th century political economy', I am working on a monograph exploring the history of political economy and colonialism in Sweden, 1700-1815. This monograph builds on my previous research on natural science, religion, and political economy in northern Europe. My publications in this area range from the history of Swedish imperial science (Etudes Germaniques, 2021) to debates over colonisation, race, and slavery (Intellectual History Review, 2023), sexuality, population, and entomology (Revue de Synthèse, 2024), and the links between Linnaean science and race (forthcoming, 2025).
• I am also working on a new biography of the Swedish parliamentarian, philosopher and mystic theologian Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). I have written and lectured about various aspects of Swedenborg's life and thought (most recently in Politica Hermetica, 2023) and I have a broader interest in currents related to his ideas and posterity.
In my previous research, I wrote on the history of astronomy and literature. I have published on the links between cosmology, the afterlife, and the plurality of worlds (Annals of Science, 2020) extending to travelogues and satire. My article on the subject has become one of the most-read in the Annals of Science, and I recently published a popular academic blogpost on this research for the Voltaire Foundation (see my personal website).
