Pekka

Kolehmainen

Pekka M. Kolehmainen is an Academy Fellow at the John Morton Center for North American Studies. His Research Council of Finland funded project, “Shadow Academies: Reactionary Epistemic Activism of the New Right in the United States” (SHADA), investigates the burgeoning right-wing ecosystem of alternative institutions of higher learning which seek to replace universities as primary hubs of knowledge production in society. He also leads the research project “Politics on the Brink of Collapse: Imaginaries of Existential Risk and Societal Exit Movements” (COLLAPSE) funded by Emil Aaltonen Foundation. Kolehmainen holds a Ph.D. in Cultural History (2022) from University of Turku and has previously held a 3-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, where he researched the conceptual history of antifeminism in the U.S. right.