She holds an Honorary Doctorate from Uppsala University, and continues her research on racial biology, photography and international scientific networks as an affiliated member of the Center for Nordic Studies (CENS) at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
As a Senior Lecturer in Arts at Dalarna Audio Visual Academy, at Dalarna university, her main interest is historical documentary production and new possibilities for exploring, understanding, and mediating history. She has developed a set of new courses on "Film as a Narrative Medium for Cultural Hertage and History.”
She has published seven books on Swedish history, early medieval and prehistoric times but also modern history, and made several historical documentaries for Swedish Televison.
She made her debut with the book ”Spåren av kungens män. Om när Sverige blev ett kristet rike”, on the making of the Swedish kingdom and its christianization. The book won the August prize for non-fiction in 1996.
Her biography on the Swedish racial biologist professor Herman Lundborg (1868-1943) "Käraste Herman. Rasbiologen Herman Lundborgs gåta” has been translated to German "Herman Lundborg. Rätsel eines Rassenbiologen” by Krister Hanne (published 2020 by Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag- Verlag, Berlin) This is a highly praised an fascinating story, and it is the first book ever written on the physician and professor Herman Lundborg who headed the world’s first State institute for racial biology in Uppsala, Sweden, from 1922 to 1935, and was internationally well renowned for his research, especially among German-speaking supporters of racial hygiene. Like many of his German colleagues he supported the Nazis. Lundborg was obsessed by the threat of racial mixing between Sámi, Finns and Swedes. On his travels in the north, he was drawn to a woman of Finnish-Sámi descent, and had a child with her. The book was nominated for the August prize for best non-fiction of the year in Sweden.
