Dr Anna Knutsson
Anna Knutsson is an affiliated postdoctoral researcher at Clare Hall College and a visiting scholar at the Centre for History and Economics and the Faculty of History.
Anna Knutsson is an affiliated postdoctoral researcher at Clare Hall College and a visiting scholar at the Centre for History and Economics and the Faculty of History. After doing an MPhil at Cambridge University, she pursued a PhD in history at the European University Institute. She graduated in 2019 with a thesis about smuggling in Sweden during the eighteenth century. Since then, she has taken up an international postdoctoral fellowship at Uppsala University in collaboration with Cambridge University and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her current research deals with illegal trade and its impact on northern European peripheries, particularly Greenland and the Faroe Islands, at the dawn of the modern era.
Select publications
Monographs
- Anna Knutsson, Shadow Economies in the Globalising World: Smuggling in Scandinavia, 1766-1806, (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023).
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Anna Knutsson & Hanna Hodacs, When coffee was banned: strategies of labour and leisure among Stockholm’s poor women, 1794–1796 and 1799–1802, Scandinavian Economic History Review, Vol 71, No 2, 2023, 176-198.
- Anna Knutsson, ‘Free Trade for Protectionists: A Customs Officer’s Struggle to Establish Adam Smith’s Economic Thought in Sweden’, Intellectual History Review, Vol 32, No 2, 2022, 281-297.
- Anna Knutsson, ‘Clandestine commerce: retailing contraband textiles in late eighteenth-century Sweden’, History of Retailing and Consumption, Vol 5, No 3, 2019, 261-275.
- Anna Knutsson & Charlotte Bellamy, ‘From valet to smuggler: A microhistorical study of a French intermediary in Stockholm, 1775–1832’, Revue d’histoire nordique, Vol 27, No 2, 2018, 115-140.
- Anna Knutsson, ‘Out of the Darkness into the Market, The Role of Smuggling in creating a Global Market of Textiles in Late Eighteenth Century Sweden’, The Journal of Dress History, Vol 1, No 1, Spring 2017, 66-73.
Chapters
- Anna Knutsson, ‘Försäljning av utländska modevaror under protektionismens ok’, in My Hellsing & Johanna Illmakunnas eds. Shopping i 1700-talets Stockholm, (Stockholmia, September 2023).
