This graduate school in applied history of education funds the training of 10 PhD-students, and provides training for 4 externally funded PhD-students.

Andreas Westerberg
Umeå University
Andreas examines the material and technical aspects of the school as a system within society. The project focuses on the Swedish education for teenagers over the past hundred years.
E-mail adress: andreas.westerberg@umu.se

Anna Ahlgren
Stockholm University
My thesis will address the construction of the ideal pupil as a subject. Using discourse analysis, I will identify and describe contemporary historical portrayals of the pupil, with focus on preferred traits and behaviors. My main supervisor is Johanna Ringarp.
E-mail adress: anna.ahlgren@edu.su.se

Badegül Eren Aydinlik
Umeå University
Badegül’s project focuses on Turkey’s teacher training colleges for women from the late Ottoman Empire to the early Republic of Turkey (1870-1945). Her main supervisor is Björn Norlin.
E-mail adress: badegul.eren@umu.se

Emma Hellström
Uppsala University
Emma’s thesis will deal with Christian education and secularization in elementary school in the twentieth century. She will also try to analyze how different groups were discussing the subject depending on their position in the field.
E-mail adress: emma.hellstrom@edu.uu.se

Linnéa Waldekranz
Örebro University
Waldekranz project focuses on the historical black box of preschool, where she studies early care and education from a local perspective. Her project will focus on Swedish kindergartens during 1940 – 1965 using board minutes, observational protocols and other unpublished archive materials to highlight the everyday operations in preschool. Her main supervisor is Johannes Westberg.
E-mail adress: linnea.waldekranz@oru.se

Martin Andersson
Umeå University
My PhD project will examine how the secularization process took place in the everyday lives of children growing up in the late 19th century and early 20th century Sweden. I will study this by looking at changes in memory culture in schools and homes.
E-mail adress: martin.andersson01@umu.se

Rebecka Göransdotter
Uppsala University
Göransdotter is problematizing the municipal girl schools as part of the democratization of the Swedish educational system by investigating the material conditions of the schools. The Swedish municipal girl schools existed between the years 1928-1968.
E-mail adress: rebecka.goransdotter@edu.uu.se

Sebastian Piepenburg
Örebro University
Sebastian investigates the archives of the Swedish National Board of Education (1920-1991). His main goal is to further understand the interplay between educational research and politics, and how this relationship has affected the development of the modern educational system in Sweden.
E-mail adress: sebastian.piepenburg@oru.se

Sophie Winkler
Örebro University
Sophie’s PhD project addresses the educationalization of the woman question during the late 19th century in Paris, Berlin, and Stockholm comparatively. The thesis will examine the struggle for the image and consequently the field of action of bourgeois women as it was carried out in the arena of education. Special focus will be put on the power of state statistics as a mechanism of (implicitly) constituting social reality – rather than merely describing it.
E-mail adress: sophie.winkler@oru.se

Viktor Johansson
Stockholm University
My PhD project explores the history of the Swedish “pupils movement” and pupil self-organization on upper secondary schooling in Sweden. My research will focus on the formation and potential transformations of pupils as a collective actor by deploying a social movement perspective on this phenomenon in the intersection between school and civil society.
E-mail adress: victor.johansson@edu.su.se
Externally funded PhD-students

Anne Helene Høyland Mork
University of South-Eastern Norway
Anne Helene examines teachers’ choice of resources when teaching history in upper secondary schools in Norway and Sweden. Her main supervisor is Merethe Roos and her co-supervisor is Henrik Edgren.
E-mail adress: Anne.H.Mork@usn.no

Carin Fröjd
Örebro University
Carin studies the recent history of vocational education. Her focus is on the dynamics between federally-driven policies and an emerging state-regulated vocational teacher profession in educational policy production. Her supervisor in Christian Lundahl and co supervisor is Andreas Berg.
E-mail adress: carin.frojd@oru.se

Chelsea Rodriguez
University of Groningen
Chelsea examines the conceptual history of mediocrity. Her supervisor is Johannes Westberg, and co-supervisor is Hilda Amsing.
E-mail adress: chelsea.rodriguez27@icloud.com

Franziska Primus
Örebro University
Franziska is working on her PhD thesis with the preliminary title UNESCO’s “Futures of Education”: The situatedness of and in futures in multilateral education policy discourses. Her main supervisor is Christian Lundahl, and her co-supervisors are Johannes Westberg and Florian Waldow.
E-mail adress: franziska.primus@oru.se