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Emma Vikström serves as a Senior Lecturer at Örebro University's School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, where she specializes in historical intersections of pedagogy, gender, and eugenics with particular emphasis on Ellen Key's intellectual legacy and its European reception.
Her research spans Pedagogy, History of Education, Gender History, History of Eugenics, Educational Philosophy, and European History, examining how early 20th-century educational theories engaged with biological determinism, motherhood constructs, and utopian social engineering. Vikström critically analyzes the tension between progressive educational ideals and exclusionary eugenic practices within Scandinavian and broader European contexts.
Publication analysis reveals consistent thematic focus on Ellen Key's contested legacy across three core trajectories: the institutionalization of eugenics in Swedish educational policy, transnational circulation of maternalist ideologies during 1890-1939, and pedagogical utopias/dystopias in interwar reform movements. Her work demonstrates how educational discourse served as both vehicle for feminist advancement and conduit for biopolitical control.
