Finnishness, Whiteness and Coloniality

Josephine Hoegaerts (University of Helsinki) is Associate Professor of European Studies and principal investigator of CALLIOPE: Vocal Articulations of Parliamentary Identity and Empire. Her research has focused on modern histories of nation-building, masculinity, and vocal practices of power and politics.

Tuire Liimatainen is a postdoctoral researcher in Area and Cultural Studies at the University of Helsinki, with a specialization in Nordic Studies. Her doctoral research examined the construction and representation of ethnicity in Sweden-Finnish social media campaigns and online activism. Liimatainen’s research interests center broadly on questions of migration, national minorities and ethnicity in the Nordic region, as well as language, culture and new media.

Laura Hekanaho (University of Jyväskylä) is a postdoctoral researcher in Applied Linguistics. Her research focuses on the relationship between language, gender and identity. In her doctoral dissertation she examined language attitudes and ideologies related to generic and nonbinary pronouns in English.

Elizabeth Peterson is University Lecturer in the Department of Languages at the University of Helsinki. She conducts research on language contact and language attitudes, including attitudes and ideologies about English. She is currently co-editing/authoring a book on the role of English in the Nordic countries, under contract with Routledge.