I am working as a postdoctoral 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.
In my PhD thesis (2025), I have analyzed the concepts of authority and subordination in the sermons of Swedish and Finnish local clergy, 1790–1820.
In the DEPE ERC project, my research examines how concepts related to improvement, benefit, and welfare were used in the Swedish Diet (Riksdag) of the 18th century. I am particularly interested in the Estate interests associated with the use of these concepts. My primary source material consists of the minutes of the plenary sessions of the four political Estates of the realm.
I am particularly interested in the views expressed among the clergy Estate. In my PhD Thesis (2025), I examined 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, 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.
I am a chairperson of The Finnish Society of Church History, and a board member of The Finnish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
