Personal research projects

Click links to view current (*) and previous Academy of Finland Research Fellow projects as well as various Post-Doctoral Researcher projects funded by various sources:

Academy of Finland Research Fellow projects

• New Perspectives on Childhood in Finland (1600–1900): Funerary Attire as an Indicator of Status of Children (Sanna Lipkin)*

• Human-Environmental Relationships in the Colonial Encounter (Anna-Kaisa Salmi)*

• The Body Size, Body Shape and Skeletal Robusticity of Post-Pleistocene Europeans (Markku Niskanen)

Post-Doctoral Researcher projects

• The Evolution of Bipedalism – Carrying Behaviour and Muscle Marker Morphology of Upper Body (Juho-Antti Junno)

• Towns, Borders and Material Culture – Effects of Modernisation and Globalisation in Towns in Northern Finland from the 17th century and on Finland’s Western Border from the Year 1809 to the Present (Timo Ylimaunu)

• Emergent Consumer Society and Consumer Symbolism in Early Modern Northern Europe (Risto Nurmi)*

• Material Culture and Human-Environment Relations in Early Modern Tornio (Vesa-Pekka Herva)

• Landscapes of Memory - Life Cycles Contextualised at Crustumerium (Ulla Rajala)

• Place Attachment and Memory: Transformation Processes in Early Modern Urban Space in Northern Finland (Titta Kallio-Seppä)*

• Food and Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Urban Communities (Anna-Kaisa Salmi)

• Religious Contacts and Religious Changes: Interdisciplinary Investigation of Site Biographies of Sámi Ritual Places (Tiina Äikäs)*