Johanna Pettersson Fürst is an Associate Research Fellow in the Global Politics and Security Programme at UI, specializing in research on issues of borders and border politics, as well as food as a security issue.
Johanna’s current project, “What Shall We Eat? Food as a Security Policy Issue in Sweden 1900–2025” (2024–2028), examines political processes through which food and foodstuffs enter onto or disappear from the security policy agenda, with a focus on Swedish food preparedness over the past century.
In her previous project, “Between Free Movement and Hard Borders: The Implementation of Internal Border Controls as a Challenge to or Extension of European Integration” (2019–2023), Johanna studied the use of border controls within Schengen, particularly in relation to the refugee crisis of 2015 and the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on questions concerning the relationship between national sovereignty and integration within the European Union.
Johanna received her PhD in Political Science from Uppsala University in 2018. During her doctoral studies, she was a visiting researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Barents Institute at the University of Tromsø. She has taught Political Science, primarily International Relations, Public Administration, and International Migration and Ethnic Relations. Johanna is currently employed as a researcher at Uppsala University.