Out of 268 applications in the fall 2022 Core Fellowship call, 12 researchers were selected to the Core Fellowship Program for terms ranging from one 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.
A postdoctoral artist funded by the Kone Foundation will join the Collegium in August 2023. The Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Arts Program promotes new forms of dialogue between art and scholarship. In addition to being practicing artists, all HCAS Art Fellows hold PhDs and take part in the weekly Fellows' Seminar where the HCAS Fellows present their research projects.
HCAS will also welcome David Schlosberg, Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of Sydney, as the new Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor in Studies on Contemporary Society for the spring 2024.
Furthermore, HCAS will host visiting fellows participating in the Kone Foundation Fellowship program for Baltic, Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian scholars. In March 2022, Kone Foundation granted additional funding for the program to support researchers affected by the war in Ukraine.
The next calls for the Core Fellowship and the Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Arts will open on 22 August 2023 and close on 14 September 2023. You may find more information on the instructions for applicants on the HCAS website.
Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor in Studies on Contemporary Society
David Schlosberg (Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of Sydney)
Fellowship period: January – July 2024
Core Fellows
Franco De Angelis, Research Director
Field of research: History and archaeology
Current affiliation: University of British Columbia
Project title: Why Rome? A Long-Term Comparative Perspective
Fellowship period: 15.8.2023–14.8.2024
Kirby Deater Deckard, Research Director
Field of research: Psychology
Current affiliation: University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA)
Project title: Individual and Context: Development of Individuality in Families in Finland
Fellowship period: 15.8.2023–14.8.2024
Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, University Researcher
Field of research: Linguistics and philology
Current affiliation: National University of Singapore
Project title: Expressing Alternatives in Human Language
Fellowship period: 1.8.2023–31.7.2025
Frog, University Researcher
Field of research: Anthropology, ethnology, folklore
Current affiliation: University of Helsinki
Project title: Materialities of Oral and Oral-Derived Texts
Fellowship period: 15.8.2023–14.8.2025
Paul Frosh, Research Director
Field of research: Media and information studies
Current affiliation: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Project title: The Persistence of Media: The Memory of Photography in the Early 21st Century
Fellowship period: 1.9.2023–29.2.2024
Nicole Hassoun, Research Director
Field of research: Philosophy
Current affiliation: Binghamton University
Project title: Beyond the Pandemic: Health, Welfare, and Creative Resolve
Fellowship period: 15.8.2023–14.8.2024
Elina Helosvuori, Postdoctoral Researcher
Field of research: Sociology
Current affiliation: Tampere University
Project title: Scarred Environments: Activism in the Era of Fertility Decline
Fellowship period: 1.1.2024–31.12.2026
Lina Klymenko, University Researcher
Field of research: Political sciences and administration
Current affiliation: Tampere University
Project title: The Language of War: Historical Analogies in Ukraine’s Resistance to Russian Aggression
Fellowship period: 15.8.2023–14.8.2025
Friederike Lüpke, Research Director
Field of research: Linguistics and philology
Current affiliation: University of Helsinki
Project title: Convivial Multilingualism in Language, Society and Education
Fellowship period: 15.8.2023–14.8.2024
Mona Mannevuo, University Researcher
Field of research: History and archaeology
Current affiliation: University of Turku
Project title: Weary Workers: The Problem of Fatigue in Finnish Occupational Medicine, 1945–1955
Fellowship period: 1.1.2024–31.12.2025
Kerkko Nordqvist, Postdoctoral Researcher
Field of research: History and archaeology
Current affiliation: University of Helsinki
Project title: Corded ware pastoralists in a boreal hunter-gatherer environment: cultural traditions and identities in the 3rd millennium BCE Finland
Fellowship period: 1.9.2023–31.8.2026
Piotr Zuk, University Researcher
Field of research: Sociology
Current affiliation: the Karkonosze University of Applied Sciences
Project title: In the Shadow of Populism and the War in Ukraine: Challenges for Energy Transition and Environmental Policy under the Conditions of the Crisis of Democracy
Fellowship period: 30.8.2023–29.8.2025
Kone Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Arts
Astrid Joutseno
Fields: Gender Studies, Medical Humanities, Music
Project title: Inheriting Grief, Searching for Stories: Academic and Artistic Research into Musical Kinship
Fellowship period: 1.9.2023–31.8.2024
Kone Foundation Fellow
Oleksiy Tolocho
Field of Research: History and archaeology
Current affiliation: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Project title: Saints, Relics and Miracles in Medieval Rus’
Fellowship period: 21.8.2023–20.6.2024
Erik Allardt Fellows
Mia Lövheim
Field of Research: Sociology of religion
Current affiliation: Uppsala University
Fellowship period: 23.8.2023–22.12.2023
Patricia Mindus
Field of Research: Philosophy
Current affiliation: Uppsala University
Fellowship period: 9.1.2024–8.6.2024