The aim of the research programme Nordic Spaces: Formation of States, Societies and Regions, Cultural Encounters, and Idea and Identity Production in Northern Europe after 1800 is to generate new research on Northern Europe and research collaboration within the region.
Research Fellow at the Department of Music Anthropology, University of Tampere. Leader of the Dance in Nordic Spaces project.
PhD, Project Manager, Research Fellow, Department of Music Anthropology, University of Tampere. Visiting lecturer at the Oulu university of applied sciences and Sibelius-Academy.
Folkdans, folklig dans och etnicitet, in Folkmusik och etnicitet, Finlands svenska folkmusikinstitut, 2005
Researching the Minuet, in Pakkanen, P. (ed.) Finnish Dance Research at the Cross-roads: Theoretical and Practical Challenges. The Yearbook of Finnish Dance Research vol. 4, 2006
The Polska at Finnish and Swedish Peasant Weddings in the 18th and 19th Century, in Märta Ramsten, M. (ed.) The Polish Dance in Scandinavia and Poland, Svenskt visarkiv, 2003
Suomen Kansan Oudot Tanssit [The Strange Dances of the Finnish People] (ed.), Kansanmusiikin ja -tanssin edistämiskeskus, 2006
Symbolien ja sanattomuuden tanssi – menuetti Suomessa 1700-luvulta nykyaikaan, Doctoral dissertation, SKS, 1999
The project Dance in Nordic Spaces aims to investigate dance and dancing as participants in the development of “Norden”, with a focus on comparative perspectives from the late 19th through the 20th century. The project group consists of eight scholars, from four Nordic countries, who represent a large field of current dance research in Norden.