Email: pipsen wisc. Curriculum Vitae. I am a historian of gender, women, feminism, race and colonialism in Scandinavia and the larger Atlantic world. I am particularly interested in thinking about whose stories count and are told in historical narratives.
In my two major research streams, I seek to write decolonial histories of people who are underrepresented in dominant narratives about colonial encounters and social movements. This work built on my longstanding interest in cultural encounters, travel writing, and interracial marriage in the Atlantic world.
In recent years I have been increasingly interested in Africans and race in Scandinavia. I have written about race and colonialism in H. I am developing classes on the topic, and I look forward to working with students interested in the history of feminism, particularly in Scandinavia. I was educated at Copenhagen University, where I received an M. I began teaching at UW in Whitehead Durham: Duke University Press, Varying topics.
In Daughters of the Trade , Pernille Ipsen follows five generations of marriages between African women and Danish men, revealing how interracial marriage created a Euro-African hybrid culture specifically adapted to the Atlantic slave trade.
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