I'am a political scientist and professor in gender studies at the Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies at Stockholm University. My research intresests are gender and sexualities in relation to insecurities/crises and war-making; in particular topics concerned with the politics of gendered protection. Currently my research deals with gender and hertigization processes, gendered Cold War memories, and the changing role of the cultural heritage in times of war and geopolitical insecurity. I am also focused on understanding the role of gender/sexualities in Sweden's abandoning neutrality, and how the Nato-membership will affect national identity and Swedish gender exceptionalism.

In the ongoing project "The remaking of collective memories in times of war and geopolitical tensions" the aim is to understand how military conflict and a deteriorating security environmnet influcence the production of collective memories and historical narratives of war and conflict. 

My publications include several books on gender and nationalism and on feminist theory and methodology.  I have also done extensive work on the Swedish constitutional monarchy as a gendered institution and re-evaluated the Stockholm syndrome from a feminist perspective. My work on gender and heritagization, protection, war-making, and crisis narratives appears in International Feminist Journal of Politics, International Journal of Heritage Studies, Critical Military Studies, Cooperation and Conflict, and Journal of Cold War Studies. I have published the volume Gendering Military Sacrifice. A Feminist Comparative Analysis (Routledge 2019, with Maria Wendt).