Description of research and teaching

I am university researcher at the Centre for Nordic Studies (CENS), University of Helsinki. I specialize in political, economic and intellectual history, especially the history of economic thought and economic policy in the Nordic countries. My doctoral dissertation in political history (2019) examined the debates on economic and industrial democracy in Finland and Sweden from the 1960s until the 1990s. I have published articles on Nordic liberalism, social democracy and industrial relations and on the theory and methodology of historiography in journals such as Contemporary European History, Contributions to the History of Concepts and Scandinavian Journal of History.

I am currently affiliated with two research projects: Neoliberalism in the Nordics led by Professor Jenny Andersson at Uppsala University and funded by Riksbankens Jublieumsfond, and Neoliberalisation of Nordic Democracy, led by Professor Johan Strang at CENS and funded by the Academy of Finland. 

My research interests include:

• intellectual and conceptual history
• history of political ideologies
• history and theory of democracy
• history of economics and economic policy
• history of working life and labour market relations
• theory and methodology of historiography
• history of the Nordic countries

I have taught undergraduate courses in political history as well as in the Master's programme in European and Nordic studies. In 2023-2025 I worked as university teacher of contemporary history at the University of Turku.