Researcher in the project Waves of Banishments? Regulations and Practices of Expulsion in Northern Europe, 1450–1900 (Academy of Finland/Svenska Kulturfonden) 2022–23. Chief editor of Historisk Tidskrift för Finland 2022–26.

Most recent publications in English: 

Wassholm, Johanna, "Threatening Livelihoods": Nordic Enemy Images of Peddlers from the Russian Empire. Jutta Ahlbeck, Eija Stark & Ann-Catrin Östman (eds.), Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820–1960: Forgotten Livelihoods. London: Palgrave Macmillan 2022. 221–249.

Wassholm, Johanna & Anna Sundelin, Rag Collectors: Mobility and barter in a circular flow of goods. Jutta Ahlbeck, Eija Stark & Ann-Catrin Östman (eds.), Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820–1960: Forgotten Livelihoods. London: Palgrave Macmillan 2022. 69–94.

Wassholm, Johanna & Anna Sundelin, Gendered Encounters in Mobile Trade: Human Hair as a Commodity in the Nordics, 1870–1914. History of Retailing and Consumption 6:2, 2020. 118–136. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373518X.2020.1859927

Wassholm, Johanna, Tatar Pedlars in the Grand Duchy of Finland in the Late Nineteenth Century. Studia Orientalia Electronica 8:2, 2020. 8–24. https://journal.fi/store/article/view/83460

Wassholm, Johanna & Anna Sundelin, Emotions, Trading Practices and Communication in Transnational Itinerant Trade: Encounters between ’Rucksack Russians’ and their Customers in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Finland. Scandinavian Economic History Review 66:2, 2018. 132–152. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03585522.2018.1466725

Finnish-Russian-relations, national and linguistic identities, history culture and the uses of history, ethnicity and mobile trade, banishments, falsifications

Research interests:  Finnish-Russian relations, national identity, language and nation, history culture, ethnicity and trade, consumption