Visiting researchers

Doctor, Senior Researcher

Ongoing projects:

• Book project: Differential doings, europes in margins, with (Re/Presenting Europe), Utrecht University
• Book project: Collective conversations on living methods in the post/colonial European classroom
• Founding Member: Initiating and establishing European Scholars and Artists of Colour Network (ESACNet)
• SaK diaries with
• Rhizome collective with
• Katha with
• : teaching staff with

Expertise and research interests:

• Postcolonial Europe
• Postcolonial feminisms
• Postcolonial urban geography
• Critical migration studies
• Critical border studies (lead as and with racialised scholars/knowers)
• Black Intersectional European Studies

Email: kolar.aparna(a)helsinki.fi

Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow (University of Granada, Spain)

Ongoing project:

• : Socio-cultural Transformation and Urban Adaptation of the Trans Tiberim Area in Rome from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Kone Foundation Grant 2022-2025)

Expertise and research interests:

• The city of Rome
• Roman urbanism and architecture
• Landscape archaeology
• Ancient roads
• Roman intellectual life

Email: antonio.lopezgarcia(a)helsinki.fi

PhD in Political Science (University of Vienna)

Docent, International Relations (Tampere University), Public Policy (University of Eastern Finland)

Ongoing projects:

• Embodied Security: Arts-Based Approaches to International Relations and War Studies

Expertise and research interests:

• International Relations (IR) Theory
• Ukraine and Eastern Europe in IR Scholarship
• Feminist Security Studies and Gender
• Interpretive Methodologies and Research Methods
• Uses of the Past and Collective Memory in International Politics
• The Language of International Politics

Email: lina.klymenko(a)helsinki.fi

PhD Candidate in Political Science, Université libre de Bruxelles

Research projects:

• Evidence use and contestation in environmental policymaking at the EU Parliament: a discursive approach

Expertise and research interests: 

• Expertise and evidence-based policymaking
• EU institutions and governance
• EU Parliament and political groups
• EU environmental policies
• Marine and biodiversity policies

Doctoral researcher, Nanjing University

Research projects:

• A Comparative Study of the Codification History of Chinese and Roman Codes from the Third to the Fifth Centuries (China Scholarship Council 2024-2025)

Expertise and research interests:

• Roman Law
• Comparative Legal History

Postdoctoral fellow, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Research projects:

• Principal Investigator for OppGen+EU: "Opposition to Gender+ Equality in Europe and the role of the EU: A Case Study Analysis"

Expertise and research interests:

• European Union Gender Equality and LGBTI Policies
• Anti-Gender and Far-Right Populist Opposition to Gender Equality and LGBTI Rights in the EU
• Intra-Feminist Debates: Prostitution, Surrogacy and Trans Rights

Doctoral researcher, Philipps Universität Marburg

Research projects:

• VORTEX (Coping with Varieties of Radicalisation into Terrorism and Extremism)

Expertise and research interests:

• Radicalisation
• Deradicalisation
• Knowledge production
• Epistemic communities
• European studies

Associate Professor in Human Rights Studies, Lund University

Docent, Social and Cultural Anthropology (Universities of Helsinki and Jyväskylä), International Law (University of Turku)

Research projects:

• Book project ‘Looping for Human Rights: An Ethnographic Theory of Expansion’ (2023-2024, funder Riksbankens Jubileumsfond)
• Book project ‘Movement in the Rights Direction: An Ethnography of the UN Human Rights Committee’

Expertise and research interests:

• Contemporary Human Rights Phenomenon
• History of Human Rights
• Ethnography of International organizations, expertise and bureaucracy
• UN human rights monitoring

Postdoctoral researcher, Tampere University 

DPhil Oxford 

Research projects:

• Transnational Knowledge Networks in Higher Education Policymaking (Research Council of Finland 2021-2025, Tampere University) 

Expertise and research interests: 

• European union and education policy: actors, institutions, and policy instruments
• Europeanisation of education
• Higher education policymaking and governance
• Education policy networks and knowledge politics

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Doctoral researcher, Comparative and European Legal Studies, University of Trento

History of Roman Law 

Expertise and research interests: 

• Legal history 

• Roman law 

• Classical archaeology 

• Ancient history 

• Roman Epigraphy

• North Africa 

• Land law