Izabela A. Dahl
Izabela Dahl is an associate professor and senior lecturer in history whose main research interests concern modern and contemporary European history. Her projects are linked to the fields of migration and refuge studies, humanitarian aid and relief activities, the history of anti-Semitism, European memory culture, and international relations in the Baltic Sea area, with special attention given to democratization processes. Her analysis is driven by an interest in social power structures and social categorisations that pre-condition cultural and social contexts. Epistemologically her work is inspired by discourse analysis, intersectionality, narrativity and the use of oral sources in history writing, as well as source pluralism. Approaches that are often applied in her investigated empirical studies include sensitivity to the gender dimension, processes of social inclusion and exclusion, and social categorization.