Out of 328 applications in the fall 2023 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.
The Collegium selected Jaison Waite as the new Postdoctoral Fellow in the Arts. The Kone Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Arts 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 Helen Beebee, Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds, as the new Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor in Studies on Contemporary Society for the 2024–2025 academic year.
Furthermore, HCAS will host visiting fellows participating in the Kone Foundation Fellowship program for Baltic, Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian scholars.
The next calls for the Core Fellowship and the Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Arts will open in mid-August 2024 and close in mid-September 2024. 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:
Helen Beebee (Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds)
Fellowship period: 15.8.2024 – 14.8.2025
Core Fellows:
Peter Arkadiev
Field of research: Linguistics
Current affiliation: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Project title: Complex Morphology and Narrative Structure: A View from the Northwest Caucasian Languages
Fellowship period: 1.12.2024–30.11.2026
Bill Bell
Field of research: English literature
Current affiliation: Cardiff University
Project title: Utopian Things: The ulterior lives of objects from Thomas More to the present
Fellowship period: 15.8.2024–14.8.2025
Patryk Dziurosz-Serafinowicz
Field of research: Philosophy
Current affiliation: University of Gdańsk
Project title: Observation Selection Effects in Data Gathering
Fellowship period: 1.12.2024–30.11.2026
Annastina Kallius
Field of research: Social anthropology
Current affiliation: University of Helsinki
Project title: Counter-Enlightenment in the 2020s? Foundations of Illiberal Political Philosophy
Fellowship period: 15.1.2025–14.1.2028
William King
Field of research: International history
Current affiliation: German Historical Institute
Project title: Petitioning the European Community
Fellowship period: 15.8.2024–14.8.2026
Julia Lajus
Field of research: History of science
Current affiliation: Columbia University
Project title: Ice and Fish in the Warming Arctic Ocean
Fellowship period: 15.8.2025–14.8.2027
Janne Mattila
Field of research: Islamic studies
Current affiliation: University of Helsinki
Project title: The Formation of Islamic Virtues
Fellowship period: 1.9.2024–31.8.2026
Emma Polyakov
Field of research: Theology and religious studies
Current affiliation: Merrimack College
Project title: The Idea of the Holy Land: Interreligious Contestation and the Construction of Sacred Space
Fellowship period: 1.9.2024–31.8.2026
Jitka Stollova
Field of research: Literature
Current affiliation: University of Cambridge
Project title: Vaclav Havel’s Plays: European Heritage
Fellowship period: 15.8.2024–14.8.2027
Tim Stuart-Buttle
Field of research: History
Current affiliation: University of York
Project title: Gratitude and Grace in Early Modern Political Thought (Hobbes)
Fellowship period: 15.8.2024–14.8.2025
Satu Venäläinen
Field of research: Social psychology
Current affiliation: University of Jyväskylä
Project title: Affective Dynamics of Contemporary Digital Participation Around Divisive Issues
Fellowship period: 1.9.2024–31.8.2026
Kone Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Arts:
Jason Waite
Fields: Contemporary art history and theory, contemporary art
Current affiliation: Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford
Project title: Experimental Post-Disaster Interspecies Infrastructure in Fukushima
Fellowship period: 16.9.2024–15.9.2025
Kone Foundation Fellows:
Tatiana Kachkovskaia
Field of Research: Linguistics
Project title: Socially-Induced Variation in Intonation
Fellowship period: 15.8.2024–14.8.2025
Peeter Selg
Field of Research: Political Science
Current affiliation: Tallinn University
Project title: Beyond wickedness: a relational explanation of the loss of failure as the central problem in modern political theory and practice
Fellowship period: 15.8.2024–14.12.2024