Meeting minutes of the Kristiania chapter of the Female Teachers' Mission Association (LMF), 1923
Meeting minutes of the Kristiania chapter of the Female Teachers' Mission Association (LMF), 1923. The Mission Archives, Stavanger.

Women and Words in Christianity

What happens when Christian women try to forge new connections between themselves and words, experimenting with new ways of writing, reading, listening, and speaking?
​Setting: The "mission feminists" in Norway during the time of the first-wave women's movement.
Watercolor of Umpumulo mission station in the Natal Colony by missionary Hans Christian Leisegang, 1866Picture
Watercolor of Umpumulo mission station in the Natal Colony by missionary Hans Christian Leisegang, 1866. The Mission Archives, Stavanger.

Mission Station Christianity 

How does Christian place-making affect how Christianity is practiced? How does it affect ideas about gendered and racialized bodies within those spaces?
Setting: Norwegian mission stations in Southern Africa during the time of British colonial expansion.
Organogram of the NMS main administration. NMS Yearbook 2003.
Organogram of the NMS main administration. NMS Yearbook 2003.

Organized Christianity:
​Stories of Change

How are changing knowledge practices in a Christian institution tied to changing practices of femininity and masculinity?
​Setting: The Norwegian Mission Society (NMS), a 150-year-old Christian non-governmental organization, navigating large changes at the start of the twenty-first century.

Reading: Subject, Scholars, Students

How do understandings of reading as a research subject relate to how we use reading as a scholarly method in our work, and how we teach discipline-specific reading to students in our classes at university? In addition to exploring the role that reading plays in my historical case studies and in my own method, I have also begun conducting classroom (SOTL) studies of student reading.