Dr. Angelina Palmén

Biography

Angelina Palmén is a postdoctoral research fellow specializing in the intersection of social and cultural history with economic business history, with a particular focus on modern European Jewish history. Her research interests include gender and women's history, feminism, visual culture, and the histories of work and consumption through digital humanities. She is affiliated with the historical research digitization project Gender Work (GaW) led by Professor Maria Ågren. Palmén received her BA, MA, and PhD (expected in 2024) from the University of Oxford. She has held various fellowships, including the Leo Baeck fellowship in German-Jewish history and the Posen Foundation fellowship in Jewish History, Society, and Culture. Her doctoral dissertation, titled “Producing New Women: Work, Consumer Culture, and Jewish Clothing Companies in Wilhelmine Germany,” was shortlisted for the Coleman Prize by the Association of Business Historians. In her current postdoctoral project at Uppsala University, she examines the activism of Jewish women in Stockholm and Berlin in the early twentieth century through the lenses of intersectionality and social entrepreneurship. The project is funded by the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland.

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