The GaW team
Current team members
The project leader of GaW is Professor Maria Ågren. The major part of the funding has been secured in Maria Ågren's position as a Wallenberg Scholar and a Rådsprofessor of The Swedish Research Council. Maria Ågren presents and represents the project in many international and national contexts. She is responsible for the budget and funding of the project.
Jonas Lindström and Karin Hassan Jansson are the research leaders of the project. They are responsible for seminars, workshops and meetings but mainly focus on GaW research. Jonas Lindström is also in charge of further developing the GaW database.
There are three PhD students in the project:
- Sigrid Ejemar writes her dissertation on the livelihoods of minorities in Denmark-Norway in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- Caroline Lindroth writes her dissertation on how women and men supported themselves in and around Sala silver mine from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century
- Carolina Menker writes her dissertation on how old people supported themselves and were supported by others in the eighteenth century.
Sofia Ling is the project coordinator. She leads the work of research assistants and trainees and works with quality assurance of the database content.
Hélder Carvalhal is a researcher within GaW, who is dedicated to labour in early modern and modern South Europe. He is assembling a dataset concerning a Portuguese case study.
Jezzica Israelsson is a researcher within GaW. As a part of GaW, she wrote her doctoral thesis on women's and men's petitioning in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Currently, she is working on an application for a research project connected to the GaW database.
Örjan Kardell is a research assistant and researcher. He mainly works on the petition project (coordinated by GaW), where he registers and indexes petitions sent to the Governor’s Administration of the province of Örebro in the 18th century.
Linnea Henningsson works as a research assistant. She transcribes court records from the Swedish province of Västmanland and registers cases in the database.
Anna Karlström is doing an internship within GaW. She transcribes court records from eighteenth-century Jämtland, Sweden. She is studying for a master's degree in Early Modern History at Uppsala University.
Angelina Palmén is a researcher affiliated with the GaW project. Her work, funded by the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, examines Jewish women’s non-profit activities in Berlin and Stockholm at the turn of the twentieth century through the lens of entrepreneurship.
Previous members and associated
- Almqvist, Ingrid, the advisory board of the database
- Bennett, Judith (USA), scientific advisory board
- Brun, Anders, image analysis
- Bujokova, Eliska (UK), guest researcher
- Dahlqvist, Bengt, the advisory board of the database
- Danielsson, Bo, the advisory board of the database
- Dober, Birgit (Austria), guest researcher
- Edin, Per-Anders, the advisory board of the database
- Edvinsson, Sören, the advisory board of the database
- Eibach, Joachim (Switzerland), scientific advisory board
- Engblom, Robin (Finland), registrator
- Erickson, Amy Louise (UK), guest researcher, scientific advisory board
- Falk, Markus, research assistant
- Fiebranz, Rosemarie, researcher
- Florin, Christina, scientific advisory board
- Grandin, Jenny, transcriber
- Gräslund Berg, Elisabeth, researcher
- Hailwood, Mark (UK), scientific advisory board
- Hardwick, Julie (USA), guest researcher
- Hofmeester, Karin (the Netherlands), guest researcher
- Holgersson, Ulrika, scientific advisory board
- Hunt, Margaret, scientific advisory board
- Jacobsson, Benny, researcher
- Jansson, Daniel, transcriber
- Karlsson, Jessica, transcriber
- Laske, Caroline (Belgium), guest researcher
- Lennersand, Marie, researcher
- Lindegren, Jan, scientific advisory board
- Lindström, Dag, researcher
- Lindqvist, Ellinor, computational linguistics
- Mattisson, Anki, the advisory board of the database
- Mispelaere, Jan, researcher
- Nivre, Joakim, computational linguistics, the advisory board of the database
- Ogilvie, Sheilagh (UK), guest researcher
- Oja, Linda, forskare, databasens referensgrupp
- Pettersson, Eva, computational linguistics
- Pettersson, Niklas, trainee
- Pettersson, Thorleif, the advisory board of the database
- Pierik, Bob (the Netherlands), guest researcher
- Pihl, Christopher, PhD student and researcher
- Prytz, Cristina, researcher
- Rafai, Romain, trainee
- Rogers, John, the advisory board of the database
- Runefelt, Leif, scientific advisory board
- Rydén, Göran, researcher
- Sandvik, Hilde (Norway), scientific advisory board
- Sarasúa, Carmen (Spain), guest researcher
- Sennefelt, Karin, scientific advisory board
- Shepard, Alexandra (UK), scientific advisory board
- Söderberg, Johan, scientific advisory board
- Torstendahl, Rolf, scientific advisory board
- Ulväng, Marie, researcher
- Wahlberg, Fredrik, image analysis
- Vainio-Korhonen, Kirsi (Finland), guest researcher, scientific advisory board
- van den Heuvel, Danielle (the Netherlands), scientific advisory board
- Wienberg, Asger, trainee
- Wilkinson, Tomas, image analysis
- Vorminder, Sarah, trainee and research assistant
- Wærn-Carlsson, Carl Mikael, researcher
- Åhlman, Christoffer, PhD student
- Österberg, Eva, scientific advisory board
- Östholm, Hanna, researcher
- Östman, Ann-Catrin (Finland), guest researcher, scientific advisory board