I am working as a project researcher on the ERC project “De-Centering Eighteenth-Century Political Economy: Rethinking Growth, Wealth and Welfare in the Swedish Empire”, led by Associate Professor Ere Nokkala. I study the Estate interests in the Swedish parliamentary debates on political economy and improvement of conditions during the 18th century.
Additionally, I am a PhD Candidate in History at the Department of History and Ethnology. In my PhD thesis, I analyze the societal views in the sermons of Swedish and Finnish local clergy, 1790–1820.
In my PhD Thesis, I examine how clergymen – who had an important role as the channels of communication in their respective local communities – defined the societal order, as well as the roles of Authorities and subjects in sermons that they held amidst the changes and continuities of power politics at the turn of the 1800s. As a scholar, I am particularly interested in source materials related to the relationship between religion and society, both from linguistic, material and interpretive-historical perspectives. Besides the theme of my thesis, I have familiarized with the uses of early modern sermon and devotional literature, the church historiography, and the practical use of source materials related to early modern ecclesiastical communication.
Research groups: Early Modern Morals and Comparative Study of Political Cultures.
Board member of The Finnish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and The Finnish Society of Church History.
