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Doctoral projects at the Department of Economic History

The Department of Economic History hosts a dynamic and diverse community of some 25 active doctoral students. They come from different backgrounds, and many have been recruited internationally. With singular exceptions, the doctoral students are recruited by different research projects at the department. While contributing to the overall research aims of the projects, they also develop their own independent agenda.

Below is a list of the active PhD students and the title of their ongoing PhD project. 

Tommy Andersson: Dying Young in a Changing Society: Social inequality, family context, and the causes of child mortality in 19th century Sweden

Johanne Arnfred: I fabrikernas skugga: hantverkarna under det industriella genombrottet

Fatima de Arriba Moreno: Migrant selection and labor market integration in Sweden and Denmark, c. 1985-2020

Nadia Barbieri: Intergenerational similarities in health across time and space

Isa Barraclough: Two centuries of family influence on the transmission of health and survival

Martin Bergvall: The emergence, spread and development of divorce in Sweden 1880-2010

Hanne Clivemo: Manufacturing gender inequality

Benjamin Chatterton: Colonialism and the socio-economic impact of the indigenous people: The case of Cape Colony

Johanna Fink: The Greening of Swedish Energy Innovations

Nick Ford: Origins of the knowledge economy Higher education and Scandinavia’s economic development

Peter Holmström: Gender differences in Academic Survival and Achievements: The impact of child penalty, co-publishing, and collaboration early in career

David Husfeldt: Innovation och företagens tillväxt

Jessica Kees: Escaping Segregation: A Longitudinal Analysis of Socio-Spatial mobility, neighborhood policy and immigrant integration in Sweden and Denmark

Fredrik Kopsch: Housing markets, regulation and distribution of values

Jonas Kreutzer: Environmental Innovation — a Case Study of the Swedish Forest Industry since 1970

Gun Lauritson: Tore Lauritzson - Mannen som kom in med kylan

Dominic Mealy: W(h)ither the State? The Marketisation of Public Services in Western Europe, 1970-2020

Nicolas Meffe: Geographic and Social disparities access to benefits of innovation through division of labour in mid nineteenth to mid twenteeth century USA

Youssouf Merouani: Inventing while cooking dinner? Women’s work and patenting during the French industrialization

Kimberly Montanes Medina: Hidden Waters, Visible Changes: Community Resilience in the Colombian Caribbean

Liuyan Shi: Tuberculosis and beyond: the intended and unintended effect of BCG vaccine on health and socioeconomic outcomes over the life course in 20th century Sweden

Anton Svensson: The conditions of the elderly before the welfare state – Stockholm 1500 to 1880

Last updated: 26 Feb 2026