Members

The Research Group

Lisa Hellman (PI) is Professor of Global History at Lund University, and a Pro Futura fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. She works in the intersection between social, cultural, maritime, and intellectual history in East and Central Asia, with a special focus on gender. Her publications include ‘Enslaved in Dzungaria: what an eighteenth-century crocheting instructor can teach us about overland globalisation’, Journal of Global History (2021), and the monograph This house is not a home: European everyday life in Canton and Macao 1730–1830 (Brill: 2018).

James Daybell is Professor of Early Modern British History at the University of Plymouth and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. An expert in early modern gender, materiality, social, cultural and political history, he has produced more than fourteen books on subjects ranging from early modern correspondence, gender and politics, public history and heritage, including Women Letter Writers in Tudor England (Oxford University Press, 2006), The Material Letter (Palgrave, 2012) and (with Susan Broomhall) Glove Culture in Early Modern England (Amsterdam University Press, 2024). He is Principle Investigator on the AHRC-funded projects ‘Gendered Interpretations of the V&A and Vasa Museums’ and ‘Gender Power and Materiality in Early Modern Europe’, and the British Academy-Leverhulme funded project, ‘Women’s Early Modern Letters Online’ in collaboration with the Cultures of Knowledge project at the University of Oxford. He also co-writes and co-presents (with the TV presenter and historian Dr Sam Willis) the chart-topping Histories of the Unexpected weekly podcast. He is co-author of Histories of the Unexpected: How Everything has a History (Atlantic Books, 2018) and a series of Histories of the Unexpected books on The Romans, The Vikings, The Tudors and World War Two (Atlantic Books, 2019).

Susan Broomhall is Professor of Early Modern Studies and Director of the Gender and Women’s History Research Centre at the Australian Catholic University. She is the author of numerous monographs and edited collections exploring women and gender in the early modern world. Recent publications include Elite Women and the Italian Wars, 1494-1559, with Carolyn James (Cambridge University Press, 2024); Evangelizing Korean Women and Gender in the Early Modern World: The Power of Body and Text (ARC Humanities Press, 2023) and Encounter, Transformation and Agency in a Connected World: Narratives of Korean Women, 1550-1700 (Routledge, 2023).

Svante Norrhem is Associate Professor of History at Lund University. His research interests have focused on early modern Scandinavian and European history. He has published several books and articles on women of the time as political, diplomatic and economic actors. Among those publications are “Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800” (James Daybell&Svante Norrhem, eds.) This led him to the HERA-funded research project Marrying Cultures. Queens Consort and European identities, 1500-1800 (Helen Watanabe O´Kelly, PI) in which the role of consorts in early modern Europe with special reference to cultural transfer, influence and integration was examined. He has also studied Sweden’s political and financial relations with France, Austria and Denmark in the 17th and 18th centuries. In two separate research projects he asked questions about resources, diplomacy and co-operation both between states and individual transnational actors. The project results are published in “Flattering Alliances. Scandinavia, diplomacy and the Austrian-French balance of power, 1648-1740”, and “Mercenary Swedes. French Subsidies to Sweden 1631-1796.”

Along with Susan Broomhall and James Daybell, among others, he has also collaborated with the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) and the Vasa Museum (Stockholm) in a project on objects and gender.

He recently completed a research project on servants and how working in aristocratic households enabled them to access education and pursue careers. A monograph written together with Anna Nilsson Hammar is forthcoming on Routledge.

Ming Gao Ph.D. is a multilingual historian of Japan and East Asia at the Department of History, Lund University. His research focuses on epistolary practices in East Asia, the medical humanities, gendered violence, and women’s history. He can be contacted at drgao20@gmail.com.

Cecilia Lundström is project assistant at Moved Apart. She has a broad academic background, but her main academic focuses lie on media; its usages and possibilities for spreading ideas across the world. Some of her works include studies on using video games as tools to spread global political messages. Besides Moved Apart, she works in the project Secrets to Patents (Lund University and Copenhagen University) and with the Global Diplomacy Network as well as NordGlob. She also holds a temporal position as communications officer at the Department of History, Lund University.

The Advisory Board