Dr Mia Kuritzén Löwengart

Mia Kuritzén Löwengart's research interests are situated at the intersection of Social, Cultural and Business history, Bourgeois culture and Jewish and Diaspora studies.

In her doctoral dissertation (PhD, 2017), Mia studied how preconditions were created for the establishment of a symphony orchestra and a concert hall in Stockholm. She also identified Jewish donor networks, with other Jews as well as with non-Jews, which generated donations to the establishment of the concert hall. The results of her research for the dissertation are summarized in the article:’Legitimization and Institutionalization of Symphonic Music in Stockholm, 1890‒1926: From a Matter of Bourgeois Concern to Social Urgency,” in J.I. Suarez Garcia och R. Sombrino Sanchez (red.) Symphonism in Nineteenth-Century Europe,’Specvlvm Mvsicae’ series Brepols, Turnhout (2019).

Since 1 January 2021, she is leading the research project:” Jewish Economic Activity and Stockholm’s Transformation into a Modern Capital, 1860s-1920s”, funded by Torsten Söderbergs Stiftelse.