Research

Publications

Peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters:

  • Loehr, J., Lynch, R., Mappes, J., Salmi, T., Pettay, J., & Lummaa, V. (2017). Newly Digitized Database Reveals the Lives and Families of Forced Migrants from Finnish Karelia. Finnish Yearbook of Population Research, 52, 59-70. https://doi.org/10.23979/fypr.65212
  • Danielsbacka, M., Aho, L., Lynch, R., Pettay, J., Lummaa, V. & Loehr, J. (2020) Settlement of Karelian evacuees during and after World War II in their new environment. In: Mats Frilund, Mila Oiva & Petri Paju (eds.) Digital, Computational and Distant Reading of History. Emergent approaches within the new digital history. Helsinki University Press.
  • Lynch, R. F., Lummaa, V., Middleton, K.M., Panchanathan, K., Rotkirch, A., O'Brien, D., Danielsbacka, M. and Loehr, J. (2019). Integration involves a trade-off between fertility and status for World War II evacuees. Nature Human Behaviour 3: 337-345.
  • Lynch, R. F., Lummaa, V., Loehr, J. (2019) Self sacrifice and kin psychology in war: threats to family predict decisions to volunteer for a women's paramilitary organization. Evolution and Human Behavior.
  • Lynch, R. F., Lummaa, V., Briga M., Chapman, S., Loehr, J. (2020) Child volunteers in a women’s paramilitary organization in World War II have accelerated reproductive schedules. Nature Communications.

    2;11(1):2377. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15703-0

  • Pettay, J. E., Lummaa, V., Lynch, R. F., Loehr, J. (2021) Female-biased sex ratios in urban centers create a “fertility trap”
    in post-war Finland. Behavioral Ecology.

Master theses:

  • Aho, L. (2018) Ecology of human dispersal: Factors affecting settlement of Karelian evacuees during World War II in their new environment. MSc thesis, University of Turku, Department of Biology.
  • Salmi, T. (2018) The implementation of an extensible software framework for natural language data mining. MSc thesis, Tampere University of Technology

Outreach for general public

  • Loehr, J. (2019) Siirtokarjalaisten tie kansainvälisiin tutkimuksiin. Karjalan Kunnat 1:18-19.
  • Loehr, J. (interview) Podcast: Uusi naapuri -podcast, osa 4: Muistaminen on todistamista. Millaista on suomalaisten naapureiden historia, ja mistä me olemme vaienneet?
  • Loehr, J. (presentation) Siirtokarjalaisten tie kansainvälisiin tutkimuksiin.
    • 14.6.2019 Karjalan Liitto: Kesäjuhlat, Hämeenlinna
    • 31.8.2019 Vuosalmen Savolaisten sukuseura, Valkeakoski
    • 16.11.2019 Karjalan Liitto: Pitäjä- ja sukumarkkinat, Helsinki (Karjalatalo)
    • 3.3.2020 Juuret Muolaassa seminaaritilaisuus