Contacts

About me

From January 2024 onwards, I'm the research director of the Finnish Literature Society in Helsinki. At Tampere University, I lead the Research Council of Finland's research project "Unequal War: Vulnerability, Stress and Survival in the Finnish Army during World War II" (2023–2027).

Research topics

Social and cultural history of the Second World War 

Experience, memory, emotion and trauma as the objects of history

History of nationhood and nationalism

Gender history, especially war and masculinities in the twentieth century 

History of psychiatry and psychology in Finland and Germany 

Experiences of violence and the postwar society

Research unit

HEX – Research Council of Finland's Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences

About me

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working in Tampere Institute for Advanced Study and the Research Council of Finland's Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences (HEX). My research centers on the history of private and collective war experiences through topics such as wartime letter writing and soldiers’ life courses. I am especially keen on exploring novel approaches to address these historical phenomena with large digital datasets.

My central research topics are wartime letter writing and intimate relationships, which I studied in my PhD dissertation "Social Lives in Letters: Finnish soldiers' epistolary relationships, intimate practices, and emotionality in World War II" (Tampere University, 2021). I lead project “DIGIKÄKI – Digital History and Handwritten Sourced”, in which we have digitized wartime letters and analyze them quantitatively. I am a member of project “Unequal War: Vulnerability, Stress and Survival in the Finnish Army during World War II”, funded by the Research Counsil of Finland 2023–2027, that examines the socially uneven demographic consequences of World War II in Finland. Together with epigenetics researchers, we are also investigating the transgenerational effects of Finnish soldiers' war stress in project “TREES – Transgenerational Epigenetic Effects of War Stress”.

Research topics

Social and cultural history of World War II

Wartime letter writing and intimate relationships

Demographic history of Finnish society in World War II 

Digital history