Kaisa Harju
MA
Doctoral Student
History, Culture and Communication Studies
Faculty of Humanities
Kaisa Harju is a doctoral student in History of Science and Ideas at the University of Oulu. Her thesis Exporting Expertise: Somalia-Finland Tuberculosis Control Support and Training Project, 1980–1990 examines cross-cultural transfer of medical knowledge and practices in the context of the Finnish development co-operation. Harju is also a member of two research projects: Experienced meanings and memories of global citizenship in Finnish development work 1950-2020 (the Kone foundation, 2017–19); and Mobile healers, politics and development in sub-Saharan Africa 1870–2000: Transformations, contestations and innovations (Academy of Finland, 2019–2023 ).
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- History of medicine and health
- Development cooperation
- Christian missions
- Cultural encounters
- Material culture
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