Maria Sjöberg

Maria Sjöberg (born 1960) is a Swedish historian. Sjöberg is one of the founding editors of the Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon, an online biographical dictionary of Swedish women first published in 2018. Sjöberg is a professor at the Department of Historical Studies of the University of Gothenburg, focusing on the history of gender in the early modern period.

Biography Maria Sjöberg was born in 1960. She studied at Stockholm University, completing a bachelor's degree in 1986. Sjöberg continued her studies at the (Institute of Urban History), a research institute affiliated with Stockholm University, defending her PhD thesis in 1993.

Sjöberg began as a faculty member at the University of Gothenburg in 1998. In the late 2010s, she collaborated with Lisbeth Larsson to compile the Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon (SKBL), an online biographical dictionary of notable Swedish women. The dictionary was launched on International Women's Day in 2018 with 1000 articles, and has expanded since. , Sjöberg has authored 54 articles of the SKBL.

Selected publications

In English

In Swedish