Short presentation

My research investigates the social spaces produced in church-historical contexts. I specialize in the period from around 1600 to 1800, and the areas of France, New France (Québec/Canada), Denmark, and the Danish West Indies. I am particularly interested in female mysticism, spiritual intimacy, and letter writing, as well as religiously conditioned labor and slavery practices in pre-industrial society.

My current research project is financed by the Carlsberg Foundation and explores the place of religion in the production of social spaces stemming from the Herrnhut sugar plantation Posaunenberg on the slave island of St. Thomas, and in the pre-industrial village of Hellebæk in North Zealand, which was owned by the Schimmelmann family and produced weapons for the Danish king, among other things.

All aspects of my research are informed by the interdisciplinary approach to historical studies developed at the Centre for Privacy Studies, where I am the leader of the research theme BELIEF (read more here).

I hold a Master's degree in Theology (Copenhagen, 2018) and a dual PhD-degree (2023) in church history and French literature from the University of Copenhagen and Université Rennes 2, respectively. I have taught church history at all levels, from bachelor's to Ph.D.

I give public talks on women in church history, mysticism, Christianity and slavery, Christians' Church on Christianshavn, as well as the Schimmelmann family and other slave-trading elites in 18th-century Denmark.