Henry Oinas-Kukkonen Senior Lecturer, Docent, General History and Finnish and Scandinavian History Office: HU 348 Office hour: Wednesday 12-13 Phone: +358 8 553 3319 e-mail: henry.oinas-kukkonen(at)oulu.fi

Research and teaching:

• History of the International Relations; USA and the World
• Cold War History; the Occupation of Japan, USA and the Cold War Finland
• ICT History; ICT Innovators and the diffusion of innovations
• Methodology of History; paleography

Research projects:

• USA and the Japanese Communist Movement 1947 - 1952
• USA and the Cold War Finland
• ICT Development in the Oulu Region
• ICT Innovators and the diffusion of innovations
• ICT History Lab
• Oulu Advanced Research on Software and Information Systems (Oasis)

Publications:

List of publications

Ten most important publications

1. Tolerance, Suspicion, and Hostility. Changing U.S. Attitudes toward the Japanese Communist Movement, 1944-1947. Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press, 2003. 242 p. ISBN: 0-313-32200-7.
2. Alaskan ”Uusi Suomi” turvasatamaksi talvisodan pakolaisille.  (”New Finland” in Alaska: imaginations about a safe haven for the Winter War refugees).  Faravid 35/2011. Pohjois-Suomen Historiallinen Yhdistys r.y., Rovaniemi 2011.
3. “From Bush to Engelbart: 'Slowly, Some Little Bells Were Ringing'”. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, April-June 2007 (Vol. 29, No. 2)   pp. 31-39.
4. Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, Harri Oinas-Kukkonen and Veronika Sušová. ”Methods for History of Computing: A Classification of Methods and State of Art of Contributions in History of Nordic Computing Research”. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, History of Nordic Computing 3. Vol. 350, pp. 444-452. Springer: New York, 2011.
5. "Kuvasoturi Thérèse Bonney True Comicsin talvisodan sankarina”. (Fotofighter Thérèse Bonney as a Winter War Heroine in True Comics). Talvisota kokemuksena. Studia Historica Septentrionalia 63. Kari Alenius & Olavi K. Fält (toim.). Pohjois-Suomen Historiallinen Yhdistys, Rovaniemi 2011.
6. Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, Jouni Similä and Petri Pulli, ”Main Threads of ICT Innovation in Oulu in 1960—1990”. Proceedings of Session 90, IEHC 2006, XIV International Economic History Congress, Helsinki, Finland, August 21-25, 2006. 31 p. http://www.helsinki.fi/iehc2006/sessions81_124.html
7. “High Variability in the US Estimates of the Immediate Post-World War II Political Transition in Finland and Japan”. Nation-Building, National Identity and the Wider World – Japan and Finland in Transition, 1945 – 1990. Studia Historica Septentrionalia 60. Pohjois-Suomen Historiallinen Yhdistys, Rovaniemi, 2010. pp. 91-104.
8.  “US Estimate of the Japanese Communist Party’s Approach to the “Yardstick Elections” in 1947”. Faravid 29/2005. ACTA SOCIETATIS HISTORIAE FINLANDIAE SEPTENTRIONALIS. Historical Association of Northern Finland, Rovaniemi 2005. pp. 143 - 153. ISSN 0356-5629.
9.  “To Be Escorted Without Fanfare: Allowing Nosaka Sanzô to Return to Japan.” Faravid 28/2004 ACTA SOCIETATIS HISTORIAE FINLANDIAE SEPTENTRIONALIS. Historical Association of Northern Finland, Rovaniemi 2004. pp. 149 - 168. ISSN 0356-5629.
10. Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, Jarmo Pulkkinen & Tero Anttila, “Continuity and Discontinuity in the History of Discoveries and Innovations”. Faravid 32/2008. ACTA SOCIETATIS HISTORIAE FINLANDIAE SEPTENTRIONALIS XXXII. Pohjois-Suomen Historiallinen Yhdistys r.y., Rovaniemi 2008. ISSN 0356-5629. pp. 185 – 201. Tiivistelmä (Summary), http://www.pro.tsv.fi/pshy/julkaisut/tiivistelmat_faravid_32/o-k_pulkkinen_anttila.htm.