PhD Salla Aldrin Salskov is a postdoctoral researcher in minority studies and philosophy at Åbo Akademi University. She defended her dissertation in philosophy on Epistemic Habits in Queer and Feminist Theory in 2022 receiving the grade pass with honors, with professor Toril Moi (Duke University) and Rita Felski (University of Virginia) as her external examiners.

She is an affiliated researcher in various projects. In Will to Relevance – Ideals in Finland-Africa Collaborations in Biomedicine and Gender Studies (Academy of Finland, University of Helsinki) she worked on epistemic habits, societal relevance and the politics of knowledge production by critically assessing what kinds of theoretical, political and ethical investments and positionalities, imagined and real, are made through particular delineations of “proper objects” in feminist, queer and anti-racist academia and activism.

As a member of EEROS: Ethical Explorations: Rethinking Sexual Relations, (Kone Foundation) she is working on queer and feminist theory in relation to Wittgensteinian philosophy and psychoanalysis. A theme she will further explore in her forthcoming research project Freedom in Queer and Feminist Theory: Rethinking Subjectivity, Power and Morality, which is a subproject in the research project Freedom in the Age of Polycrisis (Kone foundation) led by Professor Thomas Wallgren (University of Helsinki). 

Her work has been published in Sexualities, Social Epistemology. A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy, NORMA: International Journal of Masculinity Studies, NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, and Policy Futures in Education, and other outlets.

She is co-editor of Ethical Inquiries After Wittgenstein (Springer, 2022), has co-edited a special issue on feminism and critique for Feminist Encounters, and two special issues—on queer and art, and on concepts—for the queer studies journal SQS-journal. Salla has guest lectured at Duke University, University of East Anglia, Sorbonne University, University of Porto and Appalachian State University.

In 2023, she was awarded the 'Researcher of the Year' prize at Åbo Akademi University for her doctoral thesis. Salla also holds the title of docent (associate professor) in gender studies. Salla has been a visiting scholar at Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University, The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University, London and at the department of Gender Studies at Utrecht University.