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Carolina Uppenberg is a Researcher at the Department of Economic History and International Relations at Stockholm University. Since April 2021, she has served as Principal Investigator for the project "Challenging the domestic. Gender division of labour and economic change studied through 19th century crofters' households," a three-year project funded by the Swedish Research Council that examines gender division of labor in crofters' households between southern Sweden's manorial economy (Skåne) and western Sweden's proto-industrial economy (Sjuhärad area).
Dr. Uppenberg earned her PhD in Economic History in 2018 from the University of Gothenburg with her dissertation "Servants and masters (I husbondens bröd och arbete)," which analyzed power relations in agrarian households using gender history and institutional theory frameworks. Between 2019-2021, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Lund University's Department of Economic History working on the project "Dynamic peasants? Agency and inequality in Swedish modernization," where she studied peasant farmers' agency in the Diet of the four estates.
Her research focuses on agrarian social relations during the 18th and 19th centuries, gender history, and labor history, with particular attention to how gender division of labor interacted with economic structures during Sweden's transition toward industrialization. Dr. Uppenberg employs interdisciplinary approaches combining economic history with gender studies and institutional theory to examine servant institutions, crofters' households, and power dynamics in historical contexts.
Dr. Uppenberg's scholarly output reveals consistent thematic focus across multiple publications, demonstrating deep expertise in historical labor systems, gender relations in agrarian settings, and the intersection of economic change with social structures in 18th-19th century Sweden. Her work spans economic history, gender studies, and labor history with methodological sophistication that bridges theoretical frameworks from multiple disciplines.
At Stockholm University, Dr. Uppenberg teaches courses including "Arbete, makt och genus i Sverige sedan 1850" (Work, Power and Gender in Sweden since 1850), "Gendering global political economy: contemporary and historical perspectives," and "Feminist economics," while also providing master's essay supervision. Her current research project funded by the Swedish Research Council represents significant recognition of her scholarly contributions to understanding historical gender divisions of labor.
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