Henrika Tandefelt
Erik Allardt Fellow, SCAS.
Adjunct Professor (Docent) of History, University of Helsinki
Henrika Tandefelt received her Ph.D. in History from the University
of Helsinki in 2007. She has taught at
the University of Helsinki
and worked on various research and publishing projects at
the Society of Swedish
Literature in Finland, most recently (2014)
as a metadata expert in the database project ‘Albert Edelfelts brev’
[Albert Edelfelt’s Letters Online]. Her fields of research include
eighteenth-century political culture, imagery
and ceremonies, the
cultural history of manors and country houses and the political
and cultural history of
elites and nobility.
Tandefelt’s publications include the monographs (in Swedish)
Konsten att härska: Gustaf III inför sina
undersåtar (The Art
of Ruling: Gustav III and His Subjects, 2008) and Borgå 1809:
Ceremoni och fest
(Borgå 1809: Ceremony and Festivity, 2009),
also translated into Finnish. Tandefelt has edited many
anthologies, including Riksdag, kaffehus och predikstol: Frihetstidens
politiska kultur 1766–1772 (Political
Culture in Sweden’s Age of
Liberty, 1766–1772, with Marie-Christine Skuncke, 2003) and Sarvlax:
Herrgårdshistoria under 600 år (Sarvlax: The History
of a Country House, 2010). She has,
together with
Maria Vainio-Kurtakko, edited a special issue of Historisk Tidskrift för Finland (Historical
Journal of Finland,
2/2013), bringing together scholars
from Sweden and Finland researching the history
of country
houses.
Tandefelt is the Finnish review editor of Sjuttonhundratal:
Nordic Yearbook for Eighteenth-
Century Studies,
and a member of
the board of Historisk Tidskrift för Finland.
Tandefelt’s current research deals with different aspects of the
ideals and material culture of the nobility in
a changing nineteenth-century world, and elite marriage strategies and emotions
in nineteenth-century Finland.
During her stay at SCAS, Tandefelt
will work on marriage norms, ideals and strategy in the Finnish
family von Born, and Hanna Palme, née von Born.
This information is accurate as of the academic year 2014-15.
