Werner Bigell
dr. philos. (University of Tromsø, UiT, 2008), is associate professor of English in teacher education at UiT, campus Alta, with a focus on intercultural communication. He has worked on the topic of landscape (anti-landscape, German allotment gardens, aesthetics) and is currently investigating Soviet/Russian summer camps for children.
M. Christine Boyer
who joined the faculty in 1991, is an urban historian whose interests include the history of the city, city planning, preservation planning, and computer science. Before coming to the School, she was professor and chair of the City and Regional Planning Program at Pratt Institute and she has taught at Cooper Union, Columbia University and Harvard University. At Princeton she is the William R. Kenan Jr. professor of architecture and urbanism. Boyer received an award from the Department of Art and Archaeology Publication Fund, for publication of Le Corbusier: homme de lettres (1910–1947) (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010). Her publications include Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning 1890–1945 (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1983), Manhattan Manners: Architecture and Style 1850–1900 (New York: Rizzoli, 1985), The City of Collective Memory (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994), and CyberCities (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996).
Juha Hiedanpää
PhD. (University of Tampere, 2004) is research professor on natural resource and environmental policy and governance at Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Finland. He co-authored Environmental Heresies: The Quest for Reasonable (Palgrave, 2016) with Daniel W. Bromley.
Jouni Häkli
Ph.D. (University of Tampere, 1994) is professor of Regional Studies and leads the Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG) at Tampere University. His research lies at the intersection of political geography and transnational sociology, with focus on the study of borders and national identities, political subjectivity and agency, urban planning and civic participation, and forced migration. Among his recent publications are articles in journals Progress in Human Geography, International Political Sociology, Journal for Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and Political Geography.
Ph.D. (University of Helsinki, 1995) is professor of Landscape Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. His research interests include the history of public parks and park politics, the construction of national landscape imagery, transboundary landscapes as well as cultural mapping and cultural planning. He has published monographs, edited volumes and articles, the most recent ones on cultural mapping and planning in Finland as well as the emotional/affective turn in landscape studies and art history.
Simo Laakkonen
Ph.D. (University of Helsinki, 2001) is a senior lecturer of landscape studies at the University of Turku, Finland. He specializes in environmental history of pollution and protection of the Baltic Sea. Among his recent publications are two co-edited books on the global environmental history of the Second World War and two edited special issues on the environmental history of the Cold War.
Silja Laine
Ph.D. (title of) Docent (University of Turku), is postdoctoral researcher at the Åbo Akademi University, Finland. She specialises in urban cultural history and landscape studies. Her latest publications include an edited book The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History and several essays on 19th and 20th century Finnish urban culture and environmental heritage.
Antti Linna
M.Soc.Sc. (University of Helsinki, 2006). He is mostly interested in the history of the Baltic Sea region and the history of travel. Currently he is working in the field of records management.
Lasse Lovén
M.Sc. (University of Helsinki, 1972) worked 1994–2007 at Finnish Forest Research Institute as director of two national parks (Pallas-Ounas NP and Koli NP) and until his retirement in 2012 as development manager at Metsähallitus. He specializes in the cultural aspects of Finnish national parks and their management.
Hannes Palang
PhD (University of Tartu, 1998) is professor of Human Geography at Tallinn University, Estonia. He has written on landscape changes and abandonment, his most recent articles address boundaries, ideology and identity in landscapes.
Ph.D. (University of Oulu, 2008) is senior researcher at the Centre for Landscape and Culture, Tallinn University School of Humanities. His research is focused on cultural-spatial aspects of evolving urbanity and contested environmental legacies in transformations. He has published in several peer-reviewed journals and book chapters.
Annemarie Rammo
MA (Tallinn University, 2016) studied cultural theory specializing in cultural geography and later communications. She has always had a special interest for old discarded buildings and spaces. Currently she is enjoying life outside of the academic community.
Hilja Roivainen
M.A. (Fine Art, University of East London, 2011) is a painter and Ph.D. in Art History Candidate at University of Turku. She specializes in contemporary painting and the intersection between the intellectual history of utopia and the history of landscape painting. Among her recent publications are an edited special issue on utopia in Ennen ja Nyt and on mobilities in Tahiti.
Peder Roberts
PhD (Stanford, 2010) is associate professor of modern history at the University of Stavanger, Norway. He has written extensively on the history of science, politics, and the environment in the polar regions. Currently he leads the ERC-funded project “Greening the Poles: Science, the Environment, and the Creation of the Modern Arctic and Antarctic”.
Jarkko Saarinen
Ph.D. (2001), University of Oulu, is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interests include tourism and development, sustainability and resilience studies, tourism-community relations and nature conservation and wilderness studies. He is Editor for the Tourism Geographies. His recent publications include co-edited books: Tourism, Change and the Global South (Routledge, 2021), Resilient Destinations in Tourism (2019, Routledge) and Borderless Worlds for Whom? (2019, Routledge).