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Brincker, Benedikte

Areas of Research: Benedikte Brincker’s research spans two main areas: Nationalism studies and public administration. Her work focuses on the emergence and development of nation states and national welfare states in Europe. In this context she focuses especially on two elements: 1) the development of mass standardized compulsory educational systems across European nation states and 2) the construction of ‘national art’ in Europe. In recent years, Brincker has expanded this research agenda into the Arctic and has carried out field work into primary and lower secondary state schools (folkeskoler) in Greenland. This research engages with interactions between nation-building and education in Greenland and taps into public administration by engaging with public governance especially public service motivation among native and migrant workers. Benedikte Brincker is an associate professor at Copenhagen Business School. Previously she was an assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen (Dept. of Sociology). She holds a Ph.D. in Social and Political Science from the London School of Economics. From 1st January 2018, Benedikte Brincker is Vice Head of Department of the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy managing the area of education and teaching.