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Emma Vikström

Research fellow in History

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YA, Norra Beteendevetarhuset, NBET.B.344 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

My research interests lie in the field of inclusion and exclusion in historical educational contexts and I am currently working in the project Education and Disability in History (EDUDIS).

In a previous postdoctoral project (2024–2026), I examined the relationship between race biology and gender in Swedish educational debates, with a particular focus on the inclusion and exclusion of girls and women from higher education during the first half of the twentieth century.

In my doctoral thesis, The Creation of the New Human, I explored the relationship between eugenics and education in the writings of the Swedish educator and author Ellen Key (1849–1926). I analysed how eugenics was integrated into Key's pedagogy as part of her educational aims, proposed learning content and ideas about socialization, with the goal of 'improving' humanity.

I am also co-editor of the journal Utbildning & Demokrati – tidskrift för didaktik och utbildningspolitik.

Historisk Tidskrift, Stockholm: Svenska Historiska Föreningen 2026, Vol. 146, (2) : 273-303
Spjut, Lina; Vikström, Emma
Historicizing IQ testing: intelligence assessments and their role in Norwegian society from the 1900s to the present, Cambridge: Open Book Publishers 2026 : 73-100
Ydesen, Christian; Hovland, Brit Marie; Vikström, Emma
Nordic Journal of Educational History, Umeå: Umeå University 2024, Vol. 11, (1)
Vikström, Emma
NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, Routledge 2022, Vol. 30, (2) : 154-157
Vikström, Emma
Örebro Studies in Education, 63
Vikström, Emma
Moderna pedagogiska utopier, Huddinge: Södertörns högskola 2021 : 53-78
Vikström, Emma
Personhistorisk Tidskrift, Stockholm: Personhistoriska samfundet 2018, Vol. 114, (1) : 9-27
Vikström, Emma
Nordic Journal of Educational History, Umeå: Umeå University 2018, Vol. 5, (1)
Vikström, Emma

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1 July 2026 until 30 June 2031