Eirinn Larsen

Researcher and Doctor in History and Civilisation from the European University Institute, Florence – Italy (www.iue.it)

Research interests and experience:
Comparative research in business education and systems of management training. Social history and welfare-state research. Comparative history. Women’s and gender history.

Participant of the EU project «Creation of European Management Practices» 1999 – 2001. http://www.fek.uu.se/CEMP/

Participant of the project Autonomy, Transparency and Management, three reform programs in health care: a comparative project (2003 – 2007).

Editorial experience

Editorial secretary of Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (1997 – 1999, 2004 – 2005)

Member of the editorial board of Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (2003 – ) www.universitetsforlaget.no/tidsskrifter/samfunnsfag

Selected publications:

• Eirinn Larsen (2005) Invisible Strategies. Gender in French and Norwegian Business Education, 1870 – 1980 (Thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor in History and Civilisation at the European University Institute, Florence – Italy)
• Eirinn Larsen (2003). «Kjønn i norsk ’eliteutdanning’ – i lys av fransk élitism». I: S. Christensen, H. Espeli, E. Larsen, K. Sogner Kapitalistisk demokrati? Norsk Næringsliv gjennom 100 år (Oslo, Gyldendal): 149 – 186.
• Eirinn Larsen (2003). «Cultures of Content: A Comparison of French and Norwegian Business Schools». I: R. Amdam, R. Kvålshaugen, E. Larsen eds. Inside the Business Schools (Copenhagen, Abstrakt – Liber): 155 – 177.
• Eirinn Larsen (1999). «Fra likestilling til mangfold. To tiår med kvinner og ledelse i bedriften». I: Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (2): 114 – 125.
• Eirinn Larsen (1997). «The American introduction of ’maternalism’ as a historical concept». I: Nordic Journal of Women’s Studies (NORA) (No. 1/Vol. 5): 14 – 25.

Mail: eirinn.larsen@rokkan.uib.no / eirinn.larsen@iue.it