Niklas Eriksson Author & Editor

Simon Ekström is a professor in ethnology at Stockholm University, Sweden. Amongst his research interests are maritime heritage and museums, materiality and death, and human relations to the sea. Currently he is working on a project depicting the use and circulation of restored guns from the age of the sailing fleet.

Niklas Eriksson is an Associate Professor in Archaeology at Stockholm University. He specializes in Maritime Archaeology in widest sense – theories methods and materials – and his books include Urbanism under Sail (2014), Riksäpplet (2017), and Stormaktsskärgård (2022).

Anna Maria Forssberg is a historian and Associate Professor working as a researcher at the Vasa museum. She specializes in European warfare and war propaganda in the seventeenth century. She is currently doing research on the people of Vasa and the everyday life of naval families in early modern Sweden. Forssberg takes a special interest in material culture and museum collections as sources of knowledge.

Leos Müller is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Maritime Studies at Stockholm University. He specialises in global and maritime history and long-term history of neutrality. His latest publications include Sveriges första globala århundrade (2008) and Neutrality in World History: Themes in World History (2009).