Pertti Ahonen
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General description
My main research interests lie in modern and contemporary European history, particularly European history since the Second World War. I finished my PhD at Yale in 1999 and then spent fifteen years teaching in the UK, at the University of Sheffield and the University of Edinburgh, before coming to Jyväskylä in 2014. My publications have focused particularly on post-1945 Germany and Central Europe, as well as on international and transnational aspects of contemporary European history more generally, with a frequent thematic emphasis on the history of (forced) migrations. My books include After the Expulsion: West Germany and Eastern Europe, 1945-1990 (Oxford UP, 2003) and Death at the Berlin Wall (Oxford UP, 2010). I currently lead the research project "Expellees and Ethno-National Categorizations in Europe", which is funded by the Research Council of Finland.
Active JYU affiliations
- Department of History and Ethnology, Professor
Research interests
My main research interests lie in modern and contemporary European history, particularly European history since the Second World War. I finished my PhD at Yale in 1999 and then spent fifteen years teaching in the UK, at the University of Sheffield and the University of Edinburgh, before coming to Jyväskylä in 2014. My publications have focused particularly on post-1945 Germany and Central Europe, as well as on international and transnational aspects of contemporary European history more generally, with a frequent thematic emphasis on the history of (forced) migrations. My books include After the Expulsion: West Germany and Eastern Europe, 1945-1990 (Oxford UP, 2003) and Death at the Berlin Wall (Oxford UP, 2010). I currently lead the research project "Expellees and Ethno-National Categorizations in Europe", which is funded by the Research Council of Finland.
Fields of science
Follow-up groups
Personal keywords
History, Europe, contemporary Europe, migrations, international history, transnational history, Germany, Central Europe, the Cold War
Projects as Principal investigator
- Expellees and Ethno-National Categorizations in Europe, 1943-1948
- Research Council of Finland
- The Vanquished as Victims: Post-War Victimization Discourses and Their Uses in the European Loser States of the Second World War (VicLos) (C98ACD)
- Kone Foundation
Projects as Team Member
- Rethinking the Politics of Environment: Interconnected Conceptions of State, Citizenship, Consumerism, and Environment
- Kaarkoski, Miina
- The Foundation for the Finnish Institute in Germany
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