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Eleonor Marcussen is a senior lecturer in colonial and post-colonial history at the Department of Cultural Sciences, Linnaeus University, and a member and co-cluster leader of the LNU Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. Before coming to LNU first as a postdoc and then researcher, among other things, she previously taught World History at North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh until 2018 and was MWK-COFUND Fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt. Her monograph – ‘Acts of Aid: Politics of Relief and Reconstruction in the 1934 Bihar–Nepal Earthquake’ – examines the organization of relief and reconstruction work by civil society and the state in India in the 1930s. Currently, she is involved in research projects on Indian railroads and the Kamprad Family Foundation-funded project, Turning Points. Conditions of entrepreneurship in Småland Province across 100 years.