My research interests include modern history from a social-historical perspective, with a focus on the history of the Nordic countries. Specific areas of interest involve examining social phenomena from an intersectional perspective, based on the three analytical categories of class, gender, and ethnicity, and how they interact in historical events. My research is characterized by a bottom-up perspective on political agency.

I am currently a researcher in the project Ethnonationalism in Finland, funded by SKF.

I am also the PI for the research project Minority Experiences and Industrialization (MOI). In the project, we investigate industrialization processes and their impact on political debate and local communities during the post-war period in Swedish-speaking Finland.

In previous research projects, I have studied Swedish-speaking antifascism in Finland during the interwar period, class and nationalism in the Swedish-speaking labour movement after World War II, and class struggle in Swedish in Finland.

I received my PhD in 2015 with a dissertation in Swedish. The dissertation was awarded both the Mauritz Hallberg Prize by the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland (SLS) and the Rudolf Meidner Prize by the Labour Movement Archives and Library (in Sweden).

After my PhD, I worked as a university lecturer in Nordic history in 2017 and as a senior lecturer in the same subject in 2024. I have served as a postdoctoral researcher, funded by scholarships and working within various research projects in the history department at Åbo Akademi University.

From 2019 to 2021, I worked as a research fellow (SLS researcher) in political history at the University of Helsinki.

In 2021-2022, I worked as a project researcher within the SLS project 'The Finland-Swedish Antifascism.'

I have also co-authored a popular historical biography about the Swedish-speaking Finnish communist Allan Wallenius. I wrote the book together with journalist Annvi Gardberg. The book was published in the fall of 2022 in Swedish.

In the fall of 2024, I published a local historical major work of Pojo Municipality 1866-2008, a commissioned history published in both Swedish and Finnish.

The so-called 'third mission' is an important part of my work as a researcher. I am actively involved in associations and engage in public education outside the academic community.

I have extensive teaching experience at the university level and a strong interest in higher education pedagogy and didactics, particularly in how to teach history.

I have worked as a university lecturer in Nordic history at Åbo Akademi on two occasions, in 2015 and 2017, and as a senior lecturer in Nordic history at Åbo Akademi University in 2024. In the latter role, I served as acting professor of Nordic history, with responsibilities including, among other things, the graduate seminar in Nordic history.

I have taught at the Turku University, the University of Helsinki, and the Open University at Åbo Akademi University.

I have supervised several master's theses in history and am currently the co-supervisor of three doctoral dissertations at Åbo Akademi University.