Lisa Skogh is currently working on her doctoral dissertation “Liebhaberin of the Arts. The Collecting and Patronage of Hedwig Eleonora of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp (1636-1715)” in the Department of Art History at Stockholm University. Since 2010 Lisa is also affiliated with CELL on external funding. Lisa’s research mainly focuses on concepts of early modern princely collections of arts in Sweden as well as at some selected North German courts such as Gottorp and Husum, which can be linked to Hedwig Eleonora’s activities as a collector and on her networks of influence.

Lisa’s general research interest concerns early modern elite women’s roles as patrons and collectors, forming libraries or art collections, Kunst- and Wunderkammer collections, widowhood and patronage, but also the courts as centres of learning, networks of influence, including the reception and display of patronage during the seventeenth century in Northern Europe and Scandinavia.