Otso Kortekangas

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About Otso Kortekangas

Project leader and principal investigator (PI) for the project MaMeFo: The Manifold Meanings of Forests in Comprehensive Education in the Nordics 1972–2023, funded by the Kone Foundation (2024–2028). Docent in Nordic studies at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Member of Young Academy Finland. Previous positions: Postdoc, Åbo Akademi and Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) 2022–2025. Member of the project Truth and Reconciliation in the Nordic Countries TRiNC. University lecturer, fixed term, 25%, Åbo Akademi University 2022–2025. Postdoc, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden (funded through the Swedish Research Council’s International Postdoc Grant, 2019-2022). Visiting scholar, Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, UK (April-June 2019, funded through the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences postdoc grant) University lecturer (fixed term, part-time) at Stockholm University 2018-2019. PhD Student (employment), Department of History, Stockholm University 2013–2018. Degrees: PhD, Department of History, Stockholm University, Sweden. MA (Fil. mag.), Nordic History, Åbo Akademi University, Finland. MA (with distinction), Global History and International Relations, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. MTheol (teol.mag.), Theological Ethics and Philosophy of Religion, Åbo Akademi University, Finland.