Out of some 400 applications to the Core Fellowship positions in the Fall 2019 fellowship call, 10 researchers were selected to HCAS for terms ranging from one semester to three years. The HCAS Core Fellowship Program offers researchers the opportunity to concentrate on their research projects without administrative duties and encourages interdisciplinary cooperation between scholars working in different fields of study.
The next Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor in Studies on Contemporary Society will be Karen Knop, Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, who will spend the academic year 2020-2021 at the Collegium. HCAS will also host visiting fellows participating in the Erik Allardt Fellowship program, which promotes academic exchange between Sweden and Finland, and the Kone Foundation Fellowship program for Baltic, Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian scholars.
Furthermore, two postdoctoral artists funded by the Kone Foundation will join the Collegium in January 2021. The Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Arts Program promotes new forms of dialogue between art and scholarship. In addition to being practicing artists, all the HCAS Art Fellows hold PhDs, and they take part in the weekly Fellows' Seminar where the HCAS Fellows present their research projects.
The next call for the Core Fellowship and the Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Arts will open on 17 August and close on 10 September 2020.
Core Fellows:
Heath Cabot, University Researcher
Field of Research: Antropology, ethnology, folklore
Project title: Rights in Crisis: Humanitarian Governance and Solidarity on Europe’s Mediterranean Margins
Fellowship period: 05.1.2021–16.8.2021
Current Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
Mimmo Cangiano, Postdoctoral Researcher
Field of Research: History and archaeology
Project title: The Red and the Black. Interpretations of Marxism in Fascist Philosophy, Literature, and Cinema
Fellowship period: 16.8.2021–15.8.2023
Current Affiliation: Harvard University
David J. Collins, University Researcher
Field of Research: History and archaeology
Project title: Disenchanting Albert: Magic in the Service of Disenchantment
Fellowship period: 17.8.2020–16.8.2021
Current Affiliation: Georgetown University
Christine Daigle, Research Director
Field of Research: Philosophy
Project title: Rethinking the Human: Posthuman Vulnerability and its Ethical Potential
Fellowship period: 17.8.2020–16.8.2021
Current Affiliation: Brock University
Maria Khachaturyan, Postdoctoral Researcher
Field of Research: Linguistics and philology
Project title: Bilingualism at home and in church: a holistic study of language contact in social contexts
Fellowship period: Fall 2021-31.8.2024
Current Affiliation: University of Helsinki
Xin Liu, Postdoctoral Researcher
Field of Research: Social sciences
Project title: Ecological Assetization: New Configurations of Economy and Ecology
Fellowship period: 17.8.2020–16.8.2023
Current Affiliation: University of Helsinki
Ryan Mullins, University Researcher
Field of Research: Theology and religious studies
Project title: From Divine Timemaker to Divine Watchmaker
Fellowship period: 17.8.2020–16.8.2022
Current Affiliation: University of St. Andrews
Magnus Ryner, Research Director
Field of Research: Social sciences
Project title: Lost Decades: Germany, the United States, and the Political Economy of Transatlantic Relations after Bretton Woods
Fellowship period: 17.8.2020–22.8.2021
Current Affiliation: King’s College London
Kateryna Savelieva, Postdoctoral Researcher
Field of Research: Psychology
Project title: The Finnish Baby Bust: Psychosocial Factors Driving Falling Fertility in Finland
Fellowship period: 17.8.2020–16.8.2023
Current Affiliation: University of Helsinki
Corijn Van Mazijk, Postdoctoral Researcher
Field of Research: Philosophy
Project title: The Scope of Intentionalism: Phenomenology and the Contents of Consciousness
Fellowship period: 2.1.2021–16.8.2023
Current Affiliation: University of Groningen
Kone Foundation Postdoctoral Fellows in the Arts:
Angela Beatriz Moreno Acosta
Project title: ‘Comic Prose’: blending Japanese manga techniques and prose writing as a creative publishing alternative to traditional industry standards
Fellowship period: 2.1.-30.6.2021
Pedro Jose Silva Vieira de Oliveira
Project title: On Temporalities of (Colonial) Sonic Biometrics
Fellowship period: 2.1.2021-31.12.2021
Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor in Studies on Contemporary Society:
Karen Knop
Field of Research: Law
Project title: What should Foreign Relations Law Be?
Period: 17.8.2020-16.8.2021
Current affiliation: University of Toronto
Erik Allardt Fellowship:
Frans Svensson
Field of research: Philosophy
Project title: Descartes’ Ethical Perfectionism
Fellowship period: 17.8.2020 - 31.12.2020
Current affiliation: University of Gothenburg
Kone Foundation Fellowship:
Dmitry Dubrovskiy
Project title: History on Trial: Russian memorial laws and counter-extremism litigation
Fellowship period: 24.8. – 23.12.2020
Current affiliation: Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Gustavs Strenga
Project title: How to speak with Russians? A language of diplomatic gift-exchange between Livonians, Hanseatics and Muscovites during the late 15th and 16th centuries
Fellowship period: 24.8. – 23.12.2020
Current affiliation: Tallinn University
Kirsti Jõesalu
Project title: Remembering and staging communism at (East) European museums: the case of Estonian history and cultural museums in comparative approach
Fellowship period: 24.8. – 23.12.2020
Current affiliation: University of Tartu
Liia Rebane
Project title: 16th century bookbindings of the National Library of Finland
Fellowship pediod: 24.8. – 23.12.2020
More information:
HCAS Research Coordinator Kaisa Kaakinen, +358 2 941 22493, kaisa.kaakinen@helsinki.fi