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Otso Kortekangas

Otso Kortekangas

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6486-6239
20092026

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My research focuses on Arctic history, educational history, and the history and ethics of environmental issues

My publications include Language, Citizenship and Sámi Education in the Nordic North, 1900–1940 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021) and Kortekangas et al. (eds.) Sámi Educational History in a Comparative International Perspective (Palgrave 2019).

-2024-2028, project leader and principal investigator (PI) of the project MaMeFo: The Manifold Meanings of Forests in Comprehensive Education in the Nordics 1972–2023, funded by the Kone Foundation.

-teaching and supervising on BA and MA levels

-Docent in Nordic studies at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

-member of the Young Academy of Finland.

-2022–2025 Postdoctoral researcher in the project TRiNC: Truth & Reconciliation in the Nordic Countries.

-Prior to my current projects, I worked as a postdoc at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden (funded through the Swedish Research Council’s International Postdoc Grant, 2019-2022). I have also worked as a visiting scholar at Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, UK (April-June 2019, funded through the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences postdoc grant), and as a part-time university lecturer (fixed term) at Stockholm University 2018-2019.

Degrees:

MTheol (teol.mag.), Theological Ethics and Philosophy of Religion, Åbo Akademi University, Finland. 2023.

PhD (fil.dr), Department of History, Stockholm University, Sweden. 2018.

MA (fil.mag.), Nordic History, Åbo Akademi University, Finland. 2013.
Academic exchanges: Université Laval, Québec, Canada 2009-2010; Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú 2011.

MA (with distinction), Global History and International Relations, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. 2012.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education
  2. SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    SDG 5 Gender Equality
  3. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  4. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  5. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  6. SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
    SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
  7. SDG 13 - Climate Action
    SDG 13 Climate Action
  8. SDG 14 - Life Below Water
    SDG 14 Life Below Water
  9. SDG 15 - Life on Land
    SDG 15 Life on Land
  10. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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