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Doctoral project: The making of the Filipino/a "homosexual" This doctoral project aims to investigate the history of how non-normative genders and sexualities were medicalized and pathologized in the…
Project: Beyond curiosity and wonder—understanding the Museum Stobaeanum This collaborative project is the first comprehensive study of the Museum Stobaeanum, Kilian Stobaeus’ (1690-1742) extensive…
Project: Huseby in the World Joseph Stephens was one of many young Scandinavian men in the 1860s who chose to make a career in colonial India. The British Empire’s large work market, characterized by…
Project: Kashmir from the Margins: Violence, Identity and Memory in Conflicted Spaces In this research project, I study emerging literature written in English from a conflicted space, Kashmir and how…
Project: Sovereignty and the Suppression of Piracy in Maritime Southeast Asia, c.1850-1910 The suppression of piracy and other forms of maritime violence was a keystone in the colonisation of…
Project: The Borders of Humanity: Linnaean Natural Historians and the Colonial Legacies of the Enlightenment In this project we explore how the formation of ethnographic knowledge gave rise to an idea…
Project: The Aru Islands: Trade, beliefs and colonial encounters on the fringe of Indonesia The project focuses on a part of the Moluccas in present-day Indonesia, the Aru Islands. These islands are…
Project: Shaping foreignness. The effects of state agency on social categorization processes in colonial Latin America, 1590-1700 This project in global migration history investigates the role of…
Project: Mapping Trajectories of Slavery and Bondage: Slave Routes and Zones of Coerced Labour in Eastern Maritime Southeast Asia, 1500-1900 The project analyses slavery and slave trade in the eastern…
Project: Making mission families The purpose of this project is to investigate how ideas and practises concerning family, household and home are constructed and negotiated within Scandinavian…
Project: Encountering Diplomacy in Early Modern Southeast Asia: Actors, Practices, Translation This project examines negotiations and cross-cultural communication in maritime Southeast Asia between…
Project: Women on their own to America and back again The focus of the project is the experiences of single women who emigrated to the United States in the early 20th century and later returned to…
Project: Intermediaries in Imperial Expansion: Connections and Encounters on the U.S. Frontiers, 1876–1916 The project focuses on a U.S. Cavalry officer, Hugh Lenox Scott (1853–1934), a…
Project: Future Food Cultures in the Anthropocene The dominant global diet is a major contributor to the climate crisis. A transformation faces considerable practical problems, but is also a major…
Project: In transit. Ocean liner travels to and from Asia in the early 20th century This project explores the roles of boat travel to and from Asia in forming early 20th century ideas and knowledge…
Project: Imperial Expansion and Intercultural Diplomacy: Treaty-making in Southeast Asia, c.1750−1920 This collaborative research project in Global and Diplomatic History investigates the often…
Project: Infrastructure and environmental impacts in colonial India Local constructions, global ideas: engineering and colonial infrastructure in Khandesh and Berar in the nineteenth century By…
Project: Captain Jack's riding whip – Swedish emigrants and indigenous peoples in North America A riding whip belonging to the Modoc leader Captain Jack is one the treasures at the Ethnographic Museum…