New TIAS Researches selected
126 candidates applied for the ten TIAS researcher positions. Of these, 60 applied for the five Collegium Researcher Positions, and 66 for the five Post Doctoral Researcher positions.
The quality of the applications was extremely high. All suitable applications went through a detailed international review process, where three Professors evaluated each application. The selected scholars received outstanding evaluations both for their career prospects and research plans.
New TIAS researchers will be appointed for a three-year period, starting 1st of January, 2012.
Collegium Researchers (in alphabetical order):
1. Hannula-Sormunen, Minna: Focus On Numbers
2. Heiskanen, Benita: Border Violence: The Case of El Paso-Ciudad Juárez
3. Laine, Kimmo: Towards a Cultural History of Film Style
4. Mylly, Tuomas: Global Intellectual Property Norms and the Emerging European Information Constitution
5. Stenholm, Pekka: Fostering entrepreneurial behavior through institutions
They have five debuties, should some of the selected not be able to accept the position (in selection order):
1. Hakovirta, Mia: Economic and social consequences of parental separation
2. Grönholm, Pertti: Myths, Cultural Tools and Functions – Historical Narratives in Constructing and Consolidating National Identity in Estonia in 20th Century
3. Korhonen, Kalle: The evolution of personal name structures: language, religion and society. A case study of Roman and Medieval Sicily
4. Siipi, Helena: Health Values of Food: Ethical and Philosophical Viewpoints
5. Bertram, Raymond: Making reading easier
Post Doctoral Researchers (in alphabetical order):
1. Junttila, Niina: Loneliness in childhood and adolescence – intergenerational transmission and prospective consequences (ALONE)
2. Leinonen, Johanna: Hierarchies of Desirability: International Marriages in Finnish Immigration Discourses, 1982-2006
3. Valli, Katja: Consciousness and Dreaming: The Unresolved Function of Dreams
4. Valovirta, Elina: Beside Sense: Encountering Affect across Difference(s)
5. Viljanen, Valtteri: Moral Agents of Power, 1628–1889
They have also five debuties, should some of the selected not be able to accept the position (in selection order):
1. Lavapuro, Juha: Rights, Information and Security. The Architecture and Anti-Constitutional Implications of the New Security Constitutionalism
2. Meretoja, Hanna: The Ethics of Narrative Memory and Twenty-First Century ‘Perpetrator Fiction’
3. Pyyhtinen, Olli: The Art Market as a Market of Singularities: A Study on the Economy of Art
4. Nyqvist, Sanna: Changing Critical Concepts: The Cases of Burlesque and Pastiche
5. Korkka, Janne:"In all directions to the horizon"?: Reading the Alterity of Canadian Spaces
TIAS Board congratulates the selected scholars!