Annabel Brett

Philippe Cocatre-Zilgien

Maarten Delbeke

Peter Thule Kristensen

Professor of History of Architecture, Department of Architecture, Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation (KADK), Copenhagen, DK. My area of research is in the history of architecture, and in particular the early modern notions of privacy and how architects apply notions of history in architecture, both conceptually and materially. I am also Head of Interdisciplinary Teaching in Architecture across departments.

Karen Lauterbach

Associate Professor, Director at Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen

PhD. (2009), MA. (2000) in International Development Studies, Roskilde University

My research focuses on lived religion, perceptions of wealth and power and urban history in Africa – primarily Uganda and Ghana. In my recent publications, I have examined Christianity, trust, sites of wealth and power and urban spaces in Ghana, as a way to understand the relationship between history, the everydayness of religion and urban infrastructures. Furthermore, I teach core courses on Religion, Culture and Society in Africa, thematic courses on Religion, Popular Culture and the Media and supervise master theses on the African Studies programme at UCPH.

I look forward to focusing on questions related to social, spatial and religious dynamics between individuals and communities with the notion of privacy as an analytical category and to explore ways in which African cases, contexts and knowledges nuance the historic notions of privacy that the Centre has focused on so far.

E-mail: kjl@teol.ku.dk

Martin Almbjär

Postdoctoral Researcher

My academic interests range from diplomatic history in the Mediterranean in the eighteenth century to the development of the informal and formal credit markets in Sweden and Finland the early twentieth century. I have a penchant for mixing social, economic, political and administrative history in my research as I think that particular mix yields the most interesting results. The proportions vary from project to project.

I defended my thesis in 2016. It's topic is petitions submitted to the Age of Liberty Riksdag and their role in furthering political inclusion to groups that weren't represented in the Riksdag. I also investigate the role norms and administrative limitations played in shaping the interaction between the Riksdag and the petitioners, using March and Olsen's institutional theories on the Logic of Appropriateness. You can find the thesis here.

I am currently writing a book on Swedish diplomatic practices in eighteenth century Spain with a focus on the Swedish consuls in the port towns of Cadiz, Malaga, Alicante, Barcelona and in the port towns of Galicia. I am interested in the consular practices and how consuls executed their office in combination with the private business enterprises. The relationship between the consuls' public duties and their private affairs are yet to be studied in a Swedish context.

E-mail: mar@teol.ku.dk

Rebecca Arnheim

Postdoctoral researcher

My research focuses on the History of Art from the Italian early modern period. I am particularly interested in collecting practices and the agency of spaces during the sixteenth century. My current project stems from my doctoral dissertation. It examines the creation, exchange, collection, and display of portrait drawings in Italy from the mid-fifteenth century to the late sixteenth century. The intimate nature of the portrait drawing requires a more private display and reception, a facade I explore in my work.

Sara Ayres

Visiting Fellow

Sara Ayres obtained her doctorate from Birkbeck College, London, in 2012 with a thesis on the way in which Gustav Klimt's paintings were hung in women collectors' private domestic spaces, and then photographed and published within architectural journals (Oxford Art Journal, 2014). Between 2016 and 2018 she was the Queen Margarethe II Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Portrait Gallery in London, working on cultural transfer within the portraits of Danish-British consorts. In 2019 she was awarded a travel grant from the Paul Mellon Centre to study the reception of William Hogarth's prints in Denmark, specifically their display in print rooms inhabited by Caroline Mathilde af Storbritannien and Kristian VII at Hirschholm and Christiansborg Palaces. At the Centre for Privacy Studies she will be working on the Luxdorph Samling collection of pamphlets in the Royal Danish Library. She has edited collections on sculptural transfer between Norden and Europe (Sculpture and the Nordic Region, Ashgate, 2017) and on Danish-British consorts (The Court Historian, 2019). Her article on Anna of Denmark's British portraiture is forthcoming this year in the Journal for the Historians of Netherlandish Art.

E-mail: saa@teol.ku.dk
Room: 5C.0.09

Jelena Bakic

Her main research interests lie in the field of Italian Renaissance, marginal writings, history of emotions, querelle des femmes, and privacy studies. She gained a joint PhD degree in early modern European literature and cultural history from the University of Porto, Portugal and Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic, completed within the TEEME programme (Text and Event in Early Modern Europe). At the moment, she is a virtual research fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions School of Humanities - the University of Western Australia. Under supervision of dr. Diana Barnes, she works on dedicatory epistles and history emotions in Renaissance, arguing for the importance of analysis of female and male authored dedicatory epistles in the context of history of emotions. Recently, she obtained one month visiting professorship at the University of Bologna, where she works under supervision of Prof. Patrizia Caraffi, on querelle des femmes and history of emotions. Apart from this, she is an integrated researcher within the CITCEM – the transdisciplinary research centre “Culture, Space and Memory”, at the University of Porto, and a member of the project “Men for Women. Voces Masculinas en la Querella de las Mujeres” at the University of Sevilla.  

Liam Benison

BA (Honours) in English and MA in Early Medieval English Literature, University of Melbourne; PhD in Early Modern Literature, University of Kent and the University of Porto. Postdoctoral researcher, Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS), University of Porto.

My research investigates the meaning of early modern privacy through utopian literature. I am interested in how ideals of abolishing private property and achieving social harmony through surveillance conflict with ideal values of selfhood in utopian texts. I examine the texts' links to the intellectual discourse on privacy and related concepts of dissimulation, deceit, secrets, and silence. I also study the architectures and spatiality of the private and public in utopian visions, the emotions associated with the protection of personal knowledge, and the construction of knowledge about people and places as the discovery of secrets.

Ivana Bicak

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ivana Bicak works on the literary reception of anatomical and medical experiments in early modern Europe. She is officially based at the University of Exeter, where she is currently pursuing a Wellcome-funded research project on satires of experimental medicine in early modern Spain.

E-mail: ivb@teol.ku.dk

David Lebovitch Dahl

Affiliated researcher

Ph.D. in History, EUI; Cand.Mag. Italian, UCPH.

E-mail: dld@teol.ku.dk

Fabio Gigone

Affiliated researcher

PhD 

M.Arch., Università Iuav di Venezia My research focuses on the relationship between power and architecture in the Early Modern period. I am focusing on the architectural apparatuses deployed in Versailles, which defined the court and a new idea of privacy within the Louis XIV’s kingdom between 1682 and 1715. My research will consider a wide range of archival sources and will produce an autonomous body of design investigations based on the drawing tool. 

E-mail: fgi@teol.ku.dk 

Nuno Grancho

Affiliated researcher
Postdoctoral Researcher, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow

Architecture, University of Coimbra. Planning and Urban Design, University of Porto. PhD in Architecture and Urbanism, University of Coimbra.

Nuno Grancho is an architect, researcher, teacher, and historian of objects, buildings, cities, and landscapes. His work studies how spatial practices of power and resistance through architectures and cities of struggle shape the modernity and coloniality of South Asia from the early 16th century to the present day.

His research projects are focused on questions of human and material agency, the epistemology and geopolitics of architecture and urbanism as a technique of social intervention.

Of particular importance to his work and writings are the spatial-morphological arrangements in architecture and cities that identify and enable the private as withdrawal from the world and the public as engagement with that same world and simultaneously, the tension between these dichotomies.

From September 2021 until August 2024, he was a Postdoctoral researcher and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Centre for Privacy Studies, with the research project “Privacy on the move: two-way Processes, Data and Legacy of Danish metropolitan and colonial Architecture and Urbanism”.

E-mail: nuno.grancho@teol.ku.dk

Anni Haahr Henriksen

Affiliated researcher

PhD in History, University of Copenhagen. MPhil in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Cambridge University. MA in English and History, University of Copenhagen.

At the Centre for Privacy Studies, my work focuses on the mind as an inward private sphere in Elizabethan England (1558-1603). My work is multi-disciplinary, as I draw on legal, religious, political, and literary sources in order to trace the developing vocabulary related to a privacy of the mind emerging in the period. More specifically, I draw on the legislation of the Court of High Commission, the Edwardian and Elizabethan Homilies, the works of William Perkins and Justus Lipsius, and William Shakespeare’s long narrative poem The Rape of Lucrece.

The PhD thesis is now available online: https://teol.ku.dk/Forskning/publikationer/

Jesper Jakobsen

Affiliated researcher
Researcher at Division of Book History, Department of Arts and Culture, Lund University.

BA and MA in History, University of Copenhagen 2009; Ph.D. in History, University of Copenhagen 2017.

My research focuses on Print Culture and the practical implementation of urban regulation in eighteenth-century Scandinavia with a particular interest in the urban centres printing hubs of Copenhagen and Altona. This includes the social consequenses of the introduction of professional police forces, and the societal impact of increased production, dissemination, and commercialization of printed texts.

I curently work on a project called “The Scoundrel Years: Scandinavian impudence of the press and print industry, c. 1760-1800”. The project is funded by the Swedish Research Council.

E-mail: jesper.jakobsen@teol.ku.dk

Christine Jeanneret

Professor Emerita

I am a musicologist and an associate professor at the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen and Rosenborg Castle. My research focuses on early modern music, sound studies and aural history, with a particular interest for performance and staging, soundscapes and gender studies. I have held several positions and fellowships in Europe (University of Geneva, École française de Rome, University of Copenhagen, Centre de recherche du château de Versailles) and at leading institutions in the United States (Yale and Columbia Universities). My research has a wide impact, notably through my collaboration with several early music ensembles, and more recently with museums, in order to convey and share research in the unique forms of performance and exhibitions. In 2017 I was awarded Queen Margrethe II’s Rome prize for my outstanding research. I am currently working as a writer, sound artist and curator, preparing an innovative immersive soundscapes exhibition at Rosenborg Castle (opening in March 2025).

E-mail: christine.jeanneret@teol.ku.dk

Sanne Maekelberg

Affiliated researcher
Postdoctoral Researcher at the research section of History, Theory, and Criticism of the Department of Architecture, University of Leuven (KU Leuven)

PhD in architectural engineering, University of Leuven (KU Leuven)

My research focuses on Early Modern court architecture and the itinerant lifestyle of the nobility. As an architectural engineer I combine approaches from architectural history with an interest in digital visualization techniques, especially digital reconstructions and mapping.

E-mail: sma@teol.ku.dk

Asta Mønsted

Affiliated researcher 
Assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

PhD (2022), MA (2016) and BA (2013) in Prehistoric Archaeology at the SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen.

My research focuses on the archaeological remains, embedded worldviews and oral histories of the Greenlandic Inuit. At the Center for Privacy, I am investigating how the Greenlandic Inuit of the 19th century navigated the public and private spheres using filtered searches based on selected keywords. The primary sources for this study are orally transmitted stories collected in Greenland from 1735 to 1900 A.D.

Sari Nauman

Affiliated researcher

Senior Lecturer and Docent in history at the University of Gothenburg and Pro Futura Scientia XVII Fellow at Swedish Collegium of Advanced Studies, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

PhD in History, University of Gothenburg

My research focuses on Early Modern political culture, specifically relations of trust and uncertainty. Previously, I have studied the dwindling usage of political oaths, private relationships in diplomatic culture, and hospitality towards strangers. Currently, I am investigating refugee reception and internal displacement in the early eighteenth century, and during my time at the centre, I will especially focus on issues of solitude and precariousness.

The Swedish Research Council has previously (2020-2022) funded Sari Nauman's research, the title of that project is 'Hidden rebellions: Information control in Sweden, 1680-1720'.

E-mail: sna@teol.ku.dk

Oskar Jacek Rojewski

Postdoctoral Researcher

BA in History and Art History at the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland); MA in Cultural Heritage and Art History at the University of Valencia; PhD in Art History at University Jaume I and the University of Valencia; visiting fellow at Université Catholique de Louvain; assistant professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice.

He finished a postdoctoral stay at the University of Copenhagen, working on the Early Modern collections History with funding from The Generalitat Valenciana: subventions for the postdoctoral training APOSTD 2019 with the project “Private and public in the Cabinet of curiosities during the 16th Century”.

Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow at the University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, working on the mobility of Flemish court painters between Early Modern European courts

Solmaz Sadeghi

Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher at the Royal Danish Academy (IBD) and ETH Zurich (gta).

M.Arch., Ph.D. in History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano (AUIC). Thesis: Homo-Tech Wall, the evolution of the civic wall in the Tectonic Culture since 1850.

My research field lies within Architectural Construction and the City. In my current research, IBridge, I focus on early modern Inhabitable Bridges, walled-off paths, and gated communities to reveal the emergence of public privacy beyond the privatization of paths. IBridge focuses on Old London Bridge and the Pont de Notre Dame in Paris at the intersection of architecture and public policy, to analyze how privacy performs in the public realm far from private spaces. 

Parallel to my research, I currently teach at the Master Programme of Spatial Design at the Royal Danish Academy, where public privacy is embodied in shared interiors with tectonics.

At PRIVACY, IBridge relates to studies of early modern European law and privacy, social and political dimensions of early modern privacy, and religious culture and public control.

E-mail: skha@kglakademi.dk

Niccolo Valmori

Postdoctoral Research Associate at King's College, French Department.

I am working on the AHRC funded project "Radical Translations: the Transfer of Revolutionary Culture between Britain, France and Italy (1789-1815)". My focus is on the cultural transfer between France and Italy (in both directions) during the Revolutionary period.

Lee Palmer Wandel

Professor, Affiliated Faculty
WARF Michael Baxandall and Linda and Stanley Sher Professor of History, University of Wisconsin - Madison

At present, I am working on a book, tentatively titled The Matter of the Liturgy, on the changing understanding of the relationship between matter and divine revelation in the liturgy in the sixteenth century.  This book builds on work I have done on iconoclasm, the Eucharist, and the sixteenth-century rethinking of the nature of Christian knowledge.

E-mail: lpw@teol.ku.dk

Florian Wöller

Associate Professor at The Section of Church History, The Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.
 
My research concerns two areas in the first 1500 years of Church History: On one hand, I work on theology as a scientific discipline in the then newly founded universities of the late Middle Ages. On the other hand, I investigate street processions through late-antique cities, emphasizing their performative qualities. A central part of my research agenda focuses on conflicts between private and public forms of religion in street processions.
 
E-mail: flw@teol.ku.dk