Research Team

Project leader:

University Lecturer, Dr. Otto Latva:

Otto Latva (PhD, Docent) is a historian focusing on human-animal and human-plant studies as well as environmental history. He has the title of docent in the field of more-than-human history. Latva has widely studied the early modern as well as the nineteenth-century and twentieth-century societies and culture. In his previous studies, he has investigated the shared history of humans and animals, the long-term understanding of the marine environment, and the history of seafaring culture. Latva is also interested in many other matters concerning the relationship between humans and non-human nature. In addition to this, he is interested in the methods of digital humanities.

Research team:

University Lecturer, Dr. Silja Laine:

Silja Laine (PhD, Docent) is a cultural historian specialized in urban cultural history, landscape studies and cultural marine studies. She has studied built environment, a cultural history of the seasons and writing, and the history of urban mobility. She is interested in the entanglements of writing, environment and memory, and visual sources. She has written, for instance, about methodological questions concerning literature and photographs in historical research. She has worked as a scholar and a teacher at the University of Turku, Åbo Akademi University and in the unit of Landscape Architecture at Aalto University.

Postdoc Researcher, Dr. Noora Kallioniemi:

Noora (PhD) Kallioniemi is a cultural historian specializing in media materials. She has researched, among other things, film and television history, the use of analog and digital materials in historical research, and audiovisual comedy entertainment. Kallioniemi has worked as a researcher at the National Audiovisual Institute and taught courses related to film and television at the University of Turku.