On this page you can find a summary of my academic interests and current projects. I am happy to hear from prospective collaborators regarding research inquiries, workshops, and grant applications.

Research interests

My academic research and interests span the following fields:

• History of science, medicine, and religion (since 1500)
• History of political economy and colonialism
• Natural history and environmental history
• History of the body, race, and sexuality
• History of literature and satire
• European and Nordic history.

Research projects

I am currently focusing on two projects:

•   I am working on a monograph investigating the links between 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 have written a popular blogpost on this research for the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford (2023, see Publications).