Jani Marjanen

Jani Marjanen is doctoral student in the Academy of Finland–funded project Early Finnish ‘Debates’ at the Centre for Nordic Studies (CENS) at the Renvall Institute in Helsinki. He also acts as the secretary of the seminar-series Conceptual History and Related Items also affiliated with CENS. He holds an MA in history (2006, University of Helsinki).

Previously he has worked as a coordinator of the Network for the Study of the Public Sphere (homepage in Finnish only) at the University of Helsinki and as an assistant editor of Historisk Tidskrift för Finland (homepage in Swedish only), a Swedish-language historical journal published in Finland.

His academic interests focus on late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century Finnish and Scandinavian history, conceptual history and the study of the public sphere from a historical perspective. He is currently working on a dissertation on the political language of the Finnish Economic Society. He teaches irregularly at the Renvall Institute.

Contacts: jani.marjanen(at)helsinki.fi.

Selected publications include:

‘Undermining methodological nationalism: Histoire croisée of concepts as transnational history’, Mathias Albert, Gesa Bluhm, Jan Helmig, Andreas Leutzsch & Jochen Walter (eds.), Transnational Political Spaces: Agents – Structures – Encounters, Frankfurt/New York: Campus 2009 (Reihe Historische Politikforschung 18), pp. 239–263.

‘Järjestö- ja kansalaistoiminta’, Pertti Haapala & Raisa Maria Toivo (toim.), Suomen historian kartasto, Karttakeskus 2007.

‘Begreppshistoria i Finland’, Historisk Tidskrift för Finland 92 (2007:1).

Jani Marjanen, Henrik Stenius and Jussi Vauhkonen (eds.), Research on the Study of the Nordic Welfare State. Papers from the August 2003 Conference in Helsinki, Renvall Institute Publications 16, Helsinki: Renvall Institute 2004.