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Eirinn Larsen is a Professor and Head of Department at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo (UiO), where she has been serving as Head of Department for the period 2025-2028. She previously represented permanent staff on The Department Board of IAKH (2021-2024). Her academic career includes positions at the Stein Rokkan Centre of Social Research (NORCE), Forum for University History, Norwegian Business School BI, and The Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research before returning to UiO in 2017.
Larsen studied at the University of Bergen and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Her scholarly profile is built on extensive research in modern Norwegian and Scandinavian history with particular focus on gender, democracy, and nation branding.
- Modern Norway and Scandinavia/Norden history
- Feminism and democracy
- Business and gender history
- History of emotions and knowledge
- Theory and historiography
- Nordic nation branding and exceptionalism
Her recent publications reveal a strong focus on gender equality as a tool for Nordic nation branding, women's suffrage history, and the historical development of gender roles in business and agriculture. She examines how global indexes position the Nordics as gender equality leaders while questioning whether this branding serves genuine equality or reinforces global hierarchies.
Larsen leads the research group Democracy, Freedom and Boundaries and participates in the ongoing research project Experiencing American Democracy (ExAm) under UiO:Democracy. She previously led the interdisciplinary project Nordic Branding: The Politics of Exceptionalism (2017-2021) funded by UiO:Nordic.
As an educator, Larsen teaches several courses including HIS 4010: Historiske grunnlagsproblemer (Theory and historiography), HIS 4012: Theory in Practice: Classics of History, HIS 4220: Emotions in a historical perspective, and ILN 2100/4100 Digital Humanities. She currently supervises four PhD students working on topics related to gender, democracy, and Norwegian history.
