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I am a candidate-trained historian specializing in quantitative history, with a strong interest in crime, punishment, and asymmetric societal conditions in the early modern period. I wrote my master's thesis on the tracing of soldiers, servants, apprentices, imprisoned, and bound people in newspapers around the year 1800, constructing a database of 10,000 such announcements. Each new announcement feels like encountering a new person subjected to asymmetric power dynamics, which drives my passion to tell their stories. I am currently a PhD student at Aalborg University, exploring the same absconding advertisements in my research project. The large lines of the project investigate the use of advertisements as vigilantism, in relation to other power mechanisms, particularly how law enforcement operated in the same period. Presently, I am reviewing many old court protocols, police correspondence, and especially German literature. My project, titled 'Bortrømt uden Årsag,' is funded by the Carlsberg Foundation.
Aalborg University • Aalborg
Researching absconding advertisements and exploring their implications in early modern society.
Requirements apply generally to Master's programs across departments including Sociology, Business, and Engineering at Aalborg University.