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Dr Cecilia af Forselles, Chief Librarian
- cultural heritage
- literary culture
- dissemination of information, the information society and libraries
Dr Risto Blomster, Researcher
- the music of Finnish Romani
- sound archives and Finnish wax cylinder recordings from the early 20th century
- archive material on Finnish folk music
Lauri Harvilahti, Archives Director, Adjunct Professor
- Epic poetry
- Folkloristic archival research
- Ethnocultural approach and cultural identity
- Folklore scholarship and its research history
Kai Häggman, Researcher, Adjunct Professor
- history of publishing; book history
- family history
- research on networks
- business and cultural history
- the Finnish cultural elite in the 19th and 20th centuries
Irma-Riitta Järvinen, Researcher, Adjunct Professor
- folklore studies
- folk narrative
- Karelian folk beliefs and folk religiousness
- Kalevala-metric poetry
Linda Kaljundi, M.A., Project Researcher
- medieval and early modern history writing
- medieval frontiers: crusades, colonisation, and christianisation
- cultural memory studies
Kati Kallio, M.A., Project Researcher
- Kalevala-metric poetry
- the West-Ingrian singing culture
- performance, genre and intertextuality
- audio recordings
Sakari Katajamäki, Lic. Phil., Managing Editor
- textual criticism, scholarly editions
- Lauri Viita, Aleksis Kivi
- poetry and poetics
- avant-garde and experimental literature
Kaisa Kauranen, Lic. Pol. Sc., Project Researcher
- 19th century social history
- the attainment of literacy of Finnish people in the 19th century
- manuscripts of ordinary people
Dr Pasi Klemettinen, Researcher (Folklore Archives)
- popular belief in the devil, sorcery and witchcraft
- the Finnish bear and snake tradition
- folk beliefs and belief legends
Dr Ossi Kokko, Researcher
- linguistics
- dialects, especially the eastern dialects of Finland
- 19th century literary Finnish, especially the language of Aleksis Kivi
Tellervo Krogerus, Senior Researcher, Adjunct Professor
- literary research
- research on criticism
- biographical research
Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen, Secretary General, Adjunct Professor
- Medieval history and literature in Latin
- rhetoric and poetics
- relationships between oral and literary culture
- historiography of the Middle Ages and in the early modern age
Ulla-Maija Peltonen, Archives Director, Adjunct Professor
- historical folk narrative
- oral history research methodology
- the relationship between the private and public narrative on wars
- theory and methods in archive research
Ilona Pikkanen, Ph.D., Project Manager
- 19th and early 20th century historiography; historiographical narratology
- the history of the theatre in the 19th century, the study of nation-nes
Jukka Saarinen, M.A., Researcher
- Kalevalaic epic poetry
- digitised archive materials and databases
- folkloristic field work
Dr Senni Timonen, Senior Researcher
- folklore studies
- Kalevala-metric lyric poetry
- Kalevala-metric legend poetry
- the historiography of folklore collections
- rune singers
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