Visiting Scholar at PRIVACY

Therese Tamm Selander is a visiting PhD student at PRIVACY 3 September-30 November 2018.

Her field of research is the practices of women and children in the Evangelical revival movement of the 19th  century, primarily in Sweden. Her research interests include everyday life, materiality and the social dimensions of the life of individual Christians.

During her visit at PRIVACY she will primarily focus on the practices of private praying, writing and reading of the evangelical philanthropist and writer Mathilda Foy (1813-1869), using perspectives from “Lived Religion”.  One question in the study will be to explore how these practises are interconnected and related to the social settings and the consequences of that in terms of privacy. Therese looks forward to working with the Privacy-scholars on how to understand privacy in a wider cultural and historical context.

Therese Tamm Selander is a PhD student in Church History at Uppsala University, Sweden. She has her background as an Occupational Therapist and has her Cand.theol degree from Uppsala University, Uppsala and Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Oslo. She is a member of the Nordic Network for Revival Research (NORDVECK).

We are looking forward to working with Therese at Centre for Privacy Studies.