Department of World Cultures

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Faculty

Sylvia Akar

Axel Fleisch

African Linguistics, African Studies, and Luso-African Studies

Anu Korhonen

Cultural History, Early Modern Body, Early Modern Britain, Early Modern Europe, Historical Theory, and Renaissance Studies

Rein Raud

Anthropology, Area Studies, China studies, Chinese Philosophy, Cognitive Anthropology, Critical and Cultural Theory, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Theory, Culture, and Culture and Cognition

Risteilyt Tallinnaan

Eesti and Tallinna
Post-Docs

Ria Berg

Classical Archaeology, Instrumentum domesticum, Pompeii (Archaeology), Pompeii, Roman Domestic Space, Roman archaeology, Gender Studies, Roman Pottery, Roman Small Finds, and Roman bronze vessels

Eva Johanna Holmberg

Cultural History, Cultural Intermediaries In The Early Modern Mediterranean, Early Modern History, History, Renaissance Studies, and Travel Writing

Mari Rahkala-Simberg

Anthropology, Ethnographic Methods, Ethnography, Gender, Modern Greece, Monasticism, Pilgrimage, Pilgrimage and Art, Reflexivity (Sociology), and Religion

Katja Ritari

Celtic Studies, Early Medieval History, Early Medieval Ireland, Hagiography, Medieval Studies, Medieval Theology, and Old Irish Language and Literature

Taru Salmenkari

Anthropology, China, Civil Society and the Public Sphere, Democratic Theory, Democratization, East Asian Studies, Korea, Urban Geography, Civil Society - NGOs, and Korean Studies

Marja Vierros

Classics, Egyptian language, Greek Language, Latin Language and Literature, Multi- & Bilingualism & Biliteracy, and Sociolinguistics

Eeva-Maria Viitanen

Ancient water systems, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Domestic Architecture (Roman), and Pompeii (Archaeology)

pirjo kristiina virtanen

Amazonia, Amerindian Studies, Anthropology, Ethnohistory, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Politics, Indigenous Studies, Latin American Studies, and Mobility/Mobilities
Graduate Students

Patricia Berg

Ancient Egyptian Architecture, Ancient Egyptian History, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Cultural History, and Egyptian Archaeology

Laura Buchholz

Latin Epigraphy, Roman History, Roman municipal life, and Southern Latium

Enkhtungalag Chuluunbaatar

Integration/assimilation theory, Intercultural Communication, and Peacekeeping

Nadja Debenjak

Archaeoastronomy, Archaeology, Astroarchaeology, Classical Archaeology, Minoan Archaeology, Ancient Shipwrecks, Anthropology, and Near Eastern Archaeology

Kai Juntunen

Classical Archaeology, Greek Epigraphy, Latin Epigraphy, Roman Army, Roman Empire, Roman Frontiers (Archaeology), Roman History, Roman archaeology, Roman military archaeology, and Roman military history

Elisa Järnefelt

Jonna Katto

African studies, Mozambique, gender and nationalism, post-structuralist feminist theory, spatial theory, cultural geography, local histories, narrative inquiry, life history, language and African Women Studies

Don Killian

Africa Nilo-Saharan Linguistics, Articulatory Phonetics, Endangered Languages, Fieldwork in linguistics, Khoisan languages, Language Documentation, Phonetics, Phonology, and Typology

Sanna-Ilaria Kittelä

Ancient Greek tragedy, Narratology and ancient drama, Reperformances of ancient drama, Classical Reception Studies, Classical philology, Euripides, Greek Tragedy, and Greek drama

Karolina Kouvola

Ancient Warfare, Indo-European Studies, Medieval Scandinavia; Viking Age, religious and magical practices; icelandic sagas, Mythical-Heroic Sagas, and Viking Studies

Iiro Laukola

Callimachus, Hellenistic poetry, Lycophron, and Ptolemaic Period

Janne Mattila

Arabic Philosophy, History of the Islamic World, Islamic History, Islamic Intellectual History, Islamic Philosophy, Kalam (Islamic Theology), Medieval Islam, Medieval Islamic History, Neoplatonism, and Medioevo

Teemu Meriläinen

African Studies and Comparative Politics, Democratization, Authoritarian Regimes, Regime Change, Concept Analysis, Measurement

Teemu Naarajärvi

China, Chinese Politics, East Asian Politics, East Asian Studies, and International Relations

Inka Nokso-Koivisto

Arabic Philosophy, History of Hermetic Philosophy, History of Science in Islam (History), Islamic History, Islamic Studies, Medieval Islam, and Sufism

Virpi Perunka

Ancient Egyptian Religion, Ancient Nubia, Andean Archaeology, Archaeology, Archaeology of Mining, Ceramic Analysis (Archaeology), Egyptian Archaeology, Egyptology, Landscape Archaeology, and Nubian-Egyptian Relations

Miika Pölkki

Buddhist Philosophy, East Asian Studies, Japanese Buddhism, Japanese Literature, Japanese Philosophy, Japanese Studies, Japanese politics, and Literary Theory and Criticism (Literature)

Sampsa Rannala

Bakhtin, Media Spectacle studies - Douglas Kellner, Guy Debord., Risk and Vulnerability, and theories of sovereignty, biopolitics (in Agamben, Foucault, Negri), 'new' securitisation developments, empire and imperialism, feminist philosophy and theory, political philosophy, political sociology, qualitative methodology, critical theory.

Mia Rikala

Ancient Egyptian Religion, Cognitive Science of Religion, Comparative Religion, Egyptology, and Near Eastern Archaeology

Juha Saarinen

International Relations of Middle East, Military Orientalism, Political Violence and Terrorism, Strategic Studies, Violent Non-State Actors, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Iranian Foreign Policy, Political Islam, and Security Studies

Henry Salas Lazo

Latin American Studies

Ito Sanae

Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology

Riikka Tuori

Hebrew Language, Hebrew Literature, Jewish History, Jewish Literature, Jewish Mysticism, Jewish Studies, Karaism, and Medieval Jewish History
Undergraduates

Kati Helenius

African Studies, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, and Programming Languages

Nikolai Kälviäinen

Greek Language, Historical Linguistics, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Stylistics, and Syntax

Tommi Vainikainen

Anatolia, Ancient Near East Studies, Archaeology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, Egyptology, Levantine Archaeology, Mesopotamian Archaeology, Aegean Prehistory (Archaeology), and Ancient Water Technology
Members

Sanna Aro-Valjus

Anatolian Studies, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Hittite, Hittitology, Near Eastern Archaeology, Near Eastern Studies, Anatolian History, Assyrian Empire, and Assyrian Studies

Maria Colliander

Harri Kettunen

Archaeology, Languages and Linguistics, Latin American Studies, Maya Archaeology, and Maya Epigraphy

Kalle Korhonen

Digital Humanities, Evolutionary Biology, Greek Language, Greek Sicily, Language Evolution, Languages and Linguistics, Latin languages, Medieval Sicily, Multi- & Bilingualism & Biliteracy, and Onomastics

Maria Pakkala

Islam and Judaism, Islamic Studies, Middle East & North Africa, Middle East Politics, Muslim-Jewish polemics, Qur'anic Studies, Arabic Dialects, Dialectology, Interreligious Dialogue, and Interreligious Polemics

Jaana Toivari-Viitala

Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Ancient Egyptian history and culture, Ancient Egyptian language, and Deir el-Medina Studies

Erik van Dongen

Ancient Anatolia, Ancient Greece (Anthropology), Ancient History, Ancient Near East, Archaeology, Assyriology, Hittitology, Iron Age Greece (Archaeology), Levantine Archaeology, and Luwian
Alumni

janina svaetichin

Intercultural encounters and Latin American Studies

janina svaetichin

Cross-Cultural Studies, Cultural Sociology, Cultural Studies, InterCultural Studies, and Latin American Studies
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