Out of some 300 applications to HCAS in the fall 2020 fellowship call, 13 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 2021. 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.
Furthermore, HCAS will host visiting fellows participating in the Erik Allardt Fellowship program, which promotes academic exchange between Sweden and Finland, and in the Kone Foundation Fellowship program for Baltic, Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian scholars.
The next call for the Core Fellowship and the Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Arts will open on 16 August and close on 9 September 2021.
Core Fellows:
Keith Brown, Research Director
Field of research: Antropology, ethnology, folklore
Project title: Democratic Alternatives: Oral History, Civil Society and the Practices of
Pluralism
Fellowship period: 16.8.2021 - 15.8.2022
Charlotte Epstein, University Researcher
Field of research: Political Sciences
Project title: Decolonising Political Action
Fellowship period: 1.1.2022 - 15.8.2023
Sean Griffin, University Researcher
Field of research: Theology and religious studies
Project title: The Sacred Reign of Vladimir Putin: Orthodoxy, Media, and the Politics of
Memory
Fellowship period: 15.8.2022 - 14.8.2024
Ted Hopf, Research Director
Field of research: Political sciences
Project title: A Constructivist History of Khrushchev's Cold War, 1958-1964
Fellowship period: 16.8.2021 - 15.8.2022
Robert Mason, Research Director
Field of research: History and archaeology
Project title: The politics of the gender gap in voting: the United States in comparative
perspective, c. 1968–c. 2000
Fellowship period: 16.8.2021 - 15.8.2022
Kati Nieminen, Postdoctoral Researcher
Field of research: Social sciences
Project title: Appropriated narratives of resistance
Fellowship period: 1.9.2021 - 31.7.2024
Lilian O'Brien, University Researcher
Field of research: Philosophy
Project title: The Committed Mind
Fellowship period: 1.9.2021 - 31.7.2023
Heikki Patomäki, Research Director
Field of research: Political sciences
Project title: World Statehood: The Future of World Politics
Fellowship period: 1.1.2022 - 31.12.2022
Anat Pick, Research Director
Field of research: Arts, literature, musicology
Project title: Simone Weil and Cinema: Looking, Eating, Letting Be
Fellowship period: 16.8.2021 - 15.8.2022
Herman Schwartz, Research Director
Field of research: Political sciences
Project title: Money is the Root of All Power: Can US Dollar Dominance Continue?
Fellowship period: 16.8.2021 - 15.8.2022
Tero Toivanen, Postdoctoral Researcher
Field of research: Social sciences
Project title: The Climate of the Far Right – Ideological and Materialist Articulations of
Environmentalism in the Finnish and European Far Right
Fellowship period: 16.8.2021 - 15.8.2024
Svetlana Vetchinnikova, Postdoctoral Researcher
Field of research: Linguistics and philology
Project title: Language at the individual level: a radical usage-based approach
Fellowship period: 1.9.2021 - 31.7.2024
Soile Ylivuori, Postdoctoral Researcher
Field of research: History and archaeology
Project title: Electrifying Bodies: Electric Medicine, Gender, and Knowledge in the British
Atlantic World, c.1740-1800
Fellowship period: 1.9.2021 - 31.7.2024
Kone Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Arts:
Ayesha Hameed
Project title: Land Line
Fellowship period: 16.8.2021-15.8.2022
Angela Moreno
Projet title: ‘Comic Prose’: blending Japanese manga techniques and prose writing as a creative publishing alternative to traditional industry standards
Fellowship period: Fall 2021
Kone Foundation Fellows:
Anastasia Fedotova
Project title: Red deer and Russian aristocracy in the long 19th century
Fellowship period: 23.8.-22.12.2021
Current affiliation: St. Petersburg branch of the Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Science
Urmas Sutrop
Project title: What motives make a narrative a Snow White fairy tale (type ATU 709) and which colours do different versions of the tale contain?
Fellowship period: 23.8.-22.12.2021
Current affiliation: University of Tartu
Denys Teptiuk
Project title: Perspective shift via sensitive referential devices in reported speech constructions of Finno-Ugric languages
Fellowship period: 23.8.-22.12.2021
Current affiliation: University of Tartu
Erik Allardt Fellows:
Maria Kuteeva
Project title: A Bakhtinian analysis of struggles over language in multilingual university settings
Fellowship period: 23.8.-22.12.2021
Current affiliation: Stockholm University
Stefan Gelfgren
Project title: Why do Christian churches build congregations online – or not?
Fellowship period: 17.1.-16.6.2022
Current affiliation: Umeå university
More information:
HCAS Research Coordinator Kaisa Kaakinen, +358 2 941 22493, kaisa.kaakinen@helsinki.fi