Ph.D. Fellow at the Department of History and Classical Studies, AU with the project: A friend in joy and in need: Experiences and life with substances in Denmark 1920-1955.
The project examines the use of intoxicants in Denmark before criminalisation in 1955. Ida Dorph Nørskov works both with the medical conceptualisation of substance use as a disease from the 1870s up to 1960, as well as patient-oriented by means of patient records from the two largest mental hospitals of the time (Sct. Hans Hospital and Middelfart Mental Hospital).
Areas of expertise: history of psychiatry, patient records from psychiatry (empirical material), intoxicants and cultural and social history in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The project are financed by the Carlsberg Foundation (Carlsberg Foundation Humanities PhD Fellowships).
BA 1st semester: Historical Survey: Mind and Malady: History of Psychiatry from the Enlightentment to Present Times, Autumn 2025
Selection of former employments:
2023-2024 Research Assistant, Link-Lives (National Archives of Denmark)
2023 Archivist, City Archive of Copenhagen
2018-2021 Student assistant, intern and freelancing journalist, DR (Danish Broadcasting Coperation).
