
Gender and Work
A Research and Digitization Project at the Department of History
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Recent publications
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Women and Work
2023
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Att tilltala överheten: Suppliker som kulturarv och källa till kunskap
2022
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David versus Goliath: The Girjas Case: Public History in the Courtroom
2022
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Households
2022
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Review of Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen, Learning Law and Travelling Europe: Study Journeys and the Developing Swedish Legal Profession
2022
Verb of the month
Sent i november 1705 sammankallades häradstinget i jämtländska Hammerdal. På plats fanns lokala nämndemän, befallningsman, länsman och delar av allmogen, däribland Johan Jönsson från Gåxsjö som rest över 15 km i höstmörkret för att närvara. Vid tinget skulle Johan ta chansen att begära det han ansåg var sitt, en del av de 10 Caroliner i skottpengar som Olof Ersson från Sikås erhållit för tre fällda björnar. Under 1600- och 1700-talen likställdes rovdjur, såsom björn, med skaded
GaW3 has started

The third phase of the Gender and Work project (GaW3) is now in full swing. On the GaW blog, research assistant Linnea Henningsson has written a post on the kickoff meeting in January.
Bob Pierik receives dissertation prize
We congratulate Bob Pierik, former guest researcher in GaW, who is awarded the Dissertation Prize of the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH) for his dissertation Urban Life on the Move: Gender and Mobility in Early Modern Amsterdam!
Read more about the ASH prize and Bob Pierik's disseration here.

Jonas Lindström awarded by the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy

Jonas Lindström, research leader of the Gender and Work project, receives a prize from the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for his “significant contributions in the intersection between history, especially history of work, and digital humanities.”
Podcast episode on Gender and Work
Project leader Maria Ågren speaks about Gender and Work in a podcast episode from Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies.

The GaW database is being updated!
System developers at Umeå University are currently constructing a new version of the GaW database. Read more
Maria Ågren gets new funding

The Swedish Research Council has appointed professor Maria Ågren to Rådsprofessor. She gets 50 milions over a period of ten years.
Read more about this news in Swedish
Photo: Mikael Wallerstedt

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