Before coming to Lund, I studied history at the University of Oslo (BA/MA).

My dissertation explores two aspects of Copenhagen and Christiania (present-day Oslo), ca. 1775–1815. Firstly, I am interested in the techniques - paper-based, bodily, and verbal - employed by the the police and its attendant bureaucracy to establish control and order in urban spaces. Second, I aim to map how an increasing number of urban transactions and interactions became mediated through writing and numbers, exemplified by phenomena such as street numbers, addresses, newspapers, the postal system, and maps.

The dissertation seeks to shed entirely new light on the organisation of the two cities, both empirically and theoretically.

Theoretically, I am inspired by practice-oriented approaches to (book) history and media theory following Kittler, especially cultural techniques.