Aleksander Osipov ([email protected])
Alexander Osipov is a postdoctoral fellow at the Karelian Institute, the University of Eastern Finland. He received his diploma in history (2002) and Candidate of Sciences degree (2006) from Petrozavodsk State University, Russia. He completed his PhD at the University of Eastern Finland in 2022.
His research interests have ranged from the 19th century Finnish migration and the Russian Civil War to post-Soviet decolonization and environmental history. He is presently examining state-building processes and strategies in the post-Soviet space from an environmental history perspective. His study explores the role of natural landscapes in state-building in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Alina Kuusisto ([email protected])
I work as a project researcher at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland. In gained my PhD in 2017 in Finnish history. I have studied higher education policy, history of education and agriculture, Finnish and European cross-border cooperation, as well as the local and regional history of North Karelia and Eastern Finland in 1800s and 1900s .
Anssi Vainikka ([email protected])
We study fishing-induced evolution, management of recreational fisheries, and behavioural and life-history evolution of fish. We also link fisheries topics to traditional limnology and aquatic ecology. We explore the relationships between well-being and biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems, and ways to improve the status of aquatic nature and wellbeing gains derived from aquatic ecosystems.
Ari Tervashonka ([email protected])
Dr. Ari J. Tervashonka is chairman of Holistic Science association and chairman of Finnish Methodology Society. He is a member of national committee of history of technology and science. His research focuses on theory history, intellectual history, philosophy of science and academic mentoring of students. Tervashonka’s methodological research focuses on qualitative methodology, systematic analysis and its variations.
Research interests
- Systematic analysis
- Intellectual history and theory history
- Philosophy of science
- Methodology (mostly for complex qualitative problems and functionality-based interpretations)
- Interdisciplinary projects and communications
- Mentoring of academically excellent students
- Systems theories
Aytac Yurukcu ([email protected])
Doctoral Researcher, working on recent research project:
“Imperial War, Collective Memories and National Identities in the Borderlands of Europe: Identity Formation among Peripheral Minorities during and after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78”.
KM-19-11076 Finnish Government Scholarship Pool, EDUFI, “First Encounter of Two Nations in Balkans in the History of Relations between Finland and Turkey; Finnish Soldiers and War Reports During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78”.
TM-21-11709 / Finnish Government Scholarship Pool, EDUFI, “War Propaganda and the Role of Media in Comparative Perspective: Analysing the Media Sources of the Russo-Turkish War 1877-78”.
My research interests include journalism, media, press, war correspondence, diaries and reminiscences late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Also my research area specialises in identity and nationalism, historical image studies, intellectual history, cultural history, mapping and cartography. Currently, I am a reviewer for International Journal of Cartography ICACI/IJC and I am in the Editorial Board of The World History Bulletin (2020/2022), an official publication of the World History Association.
I wish to thank the following teachers and professors, who often went against the grain and got into trouble for that and dedicated a lot of their time to my learning and academic development, far beyond what their formal duties required. In order of their appearance in my life: Mustafa Gezer (Secondary School “Aliço School Koyunyeri”, Edirne), Docent Bülent Atalay (Trakya University, Department of History, Edirne), Prof. Hüseyin Mevsim (Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Georgraphy, Ankara), Prof. Jeremy Smith (University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu), Docent Teuvo Laitila (University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu).
César Soares de Oliveira ([email protected])
César Soares de Oliveira is a legal scholar who specializes in applying theoretical debates within public international law to specific areas in international environmental law. In particular, his research interests lie in the Law of the Sea, the Law of Treaties, Polar Law, and the study of coherence and consistency within international environmental regimes. He also has a general interest in comparative legal history and in Ecological Law.
Soares de Oliveira has a background in international relations and also holds a master’s degree in International and Comparative Law (MICL) from the University of Eastern Finland (UEF). He is currently pursuing his doctoral degree at UEF in association with the Law in Water and Environmental Governance Research Group at the Centre for Climate Change, Energy, and Environmental Law (CCEEL).
Dawid Bunikowski ([email protected])
I am a legal philosopher of Polish descent, residing in Eastern Finland (North Karelia, Joensuu). I did my PhD in Poland in 2009 (on law and morality: abortion, euthanasia, human fertilisation, cloning, pornography, prostitution, same-sex couples, etc.). I did different postgraduate studies in: 1) human resources management, 2) economics, 3) MBA-sustainable and inclusive leadership, 4) Jews in Poland, 5) Diploma in iure matrimoniali et processuali/Canon law for lawyers. I carried out my postdoctoral research at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF, School of Law), in 2013-2015 (on the recent global financial crisis as an axiological crisis: the crisis of law and the crisis of morality; business ethics/corporate governance). My Docent title was granted by the University of Lapland in 2022 (in the field of philosophy of law in the Arctic).
I am Associate Member at the Oxford University: https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-dawid-bunikowski/
I have been a Visiting Researcher at the UEF School of Theology since 2020. Additionally, I am a University Professor at the State University of Applied Sciences in Wloclawek (Department of Administration) in Poland. I am a Lecturer at the University of Guyana (Department of Law) in Guyana. I am a former Visiting Professor at Carleton University (Department of Law and Legal Studies) in Ottawa, Canada.
I am a law and religion scholar. I work on state church relations, religious freedom, Catholicism and Judaism, but also on relations between law, morality and religion. My main research interests concern as well: law and morality, law and politics, law and society, law and anthropology, law and language, etc. Much of my research has covered indigenous cultures in the Arctic like customary laws, recognition of indigenous rights or protection of sacred sites. I am also to ethical foundations of economy.
Moreover, I do “all things Polish”.
While in the School, I teach:
- ”Controversies and challenges of religion and law in Europe”,
- “Religion in Poland” (REES/Aleksanteri institute-course),
- “Good governance, the rule of law and religious freedom as approaches to sustainable development in the Global South” (UniPID course).
I also taught here (2022/2023):
- “Jews and Judaism in Poland, Russia, the Baltic countries and East Central Europe”,
- “Ukrainian-Polish relations: history, politics, culture, law, religion”.
Moreover, while in social sciences (2023/2024), I am the coordinator of the YUFE course “Global Migration and European Identity” and have taught “Populism in East Central Europe”.
Digital History for Literature in Finland (DHL-FI)
Dominique van de Klundert ([email protected])
Dominique van de Klundert is a visiting postdoctoral researcher from Aotearoa New Zealand, working between UEF and the University of Rijeka courtesy of the YUFE programme. Her doctoral research developed a media archaeology-informed ‘stereographic’ methodology for de/colonising visual heritage research, combining 3D photographic imaging with the Latin American personal-political oral history narrative form of testimonio to simulate a conversation among residents of contested UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Bolivia and Palestine.
Other projects analysed the evidentiary status and heritage qualities of the documentary photographs of early Australian photographer J.W. Lindt and critically investigated the use of criminal death masks in the intersecting practice of phrenology and development of neuroscience at the University of Melbourne’s medical school. Having served as a travel and academic editor, she also supported innovative research dissemination in video format as a participant in the ‘Science & Startups’ programme of the Berlin University Alliance.
Her current project investigates the ways in which eco-discourse around designated international ‘dark sky’ communities combating light pollution in Europe and the UK suggests a resurgence of the notion of ‘planetary’ heritage integrated with more-than-human wellbeing.