Out of 450 applications in the fall 2021 Core Fellowship call, 11 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.
Two postdoctoral artists funded by the Kone Foundation will join the Collegium in August 2022. 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 Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies at the University of Edinburgh, as the new Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor in Studies on Contemporary Society for the academic year 2022–2023.
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 fleeing the war in Ukraine. The names of the new Kone Foundation Fellows will be published shortly.
The next calls for the Core Fellowship and the Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Arts will open in August and close in early September 2022. The dates will be announced on the HCAS website by the end of June 2022.
Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor in Studies on Contemporary Society
Mona Siddiqui (Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies, University of Edinburgh)
Project title: Faith and Fidelity in Islamic Thought
Fellowship period: August 2022 – July 2023
Core Fellows
Adrian Blau, Research Director
Field of research: Political Science, Philosophy
Current affiliation: King's College London
Project title: Thought Experiments in Political Theory and Philosophy: A New Methodology
Fellowship period: 15.8.2022–14.8.2023
Kristin Ferebee, Postdoctoral Researcher
Field of research: English literature
Current affiliation: University of Ghent
Project title: Frontier of Unsettlement: New Organizations of Human-Nonhuman Nature in the Arctic
Fellowship period: 15.8.2022–14.8.2025
I An Gao, Postdoctoral Researcher
Field of research: Sociology
Current affiliation: University of Helsinki
Project title: Care in relationships: Re-centering Indigenous Older Women's Voices
Fellowship period: 15.8.2022–14.8.2025
Katja Kujanpää, Postdoctoral Researcher
Field of research: Theology
Current affiliation: University of Helsinki
Project title: Scriptural Authority and the Construction of Early Christian Identities
Fellowship period: 15.8.2022–14.8.2025
Charles Kurth, University Researcher
Field of research: Philosophy
Current affiliation: Western Michigan University
Project title: Taming the Passions: Emotion Cultivation and the Development of Moral Agency
Fellowship period: 15.8.2022–14.8.2024
Walter Rech, University Researcher
Field of research: Law
Current affiliation: University of Helsinki
Project title: Targeted Killing and International Law, 1600–1800
Fellowship period: 15.8.2022–14.8.2024
Cris Shore, Research Director
Field of research: Anthropology
Current affiliation: Goldsmiths University
Project title: Metricised Management, Market-Making and University Futures
Fellowship period: 15.8.2022–14.8.2023
Merja Stenroos, Research Director
Field of research: English philology
Current affiliation: University of Stavanger
Project title: Micro-patterns as a method of reconstructing linguistic pasts
Fellowship period: 15.8.2022–14.8.2023
Liubov Vetoshkina, Postdoctoral Researcher
Field of research: Education
Current affiliation: University of Helsinki
Project title: Capturing transformation of academic work with digital materiality
Fellowship period: 15.8.2022–14.8.2025
Mariëlle Wijermars, University Researcher
Field of research: Media Studies
Current affiliation: Maastricht University
Project title: The Platformisation of Authoritarian Control in Russia
Fellowship period: 15.8.2022–14.8.2023
Nina Öhman, Postdoctoral Researcher
Field of research: Musicology
Current affiliation: University of Helsinki
Project title: Audible Subversion: African American women singers and gospel vocal expression
Fellowship period: 15.8.2022–14.8.2025
Kone Foundation Postdoctoral Fellows in the Arts
Mark Aitken
Field: Film
Project title: The Presence of Absence: Trauma, empathy and Sámi knowledge in the age of Arctic exploitation
Fellowship period: 15.8.2022–14.8.2023
Thomas Cardwell
Field: Painting
Project title: On Patches and Paintings: The Heavy Metal Battle Jacket as Mnemosyne Atlas
Fellowship period: 15.8.2022–14.8.2023