Mary Hilson is professor at the Department of History and Classical Studies, Aarhus University. Before moving to Aarhus in 2015 she was employed at the Department of Scandinavian Studies, UCL. Her research interests include modern social, political and cultural history, with a focus on the Nordic countries and the Nordic region in its transnational contexts.

She is currently (May 2024) in the early stages of developing a new project on the history of animals, food and farming in the period c.1860-1930. In previous (and ongoing) research she has studied the Nordic model and how images of the Nordic countries are constructed and circulated transnationally; and the history of the consumer co-operative movement in the Nordic countries and beyond.