​Jonas Ahlskog is University Lecturer in History at Åbo Akademi University (ÅAU). He is also Adjunct Professor of Philosophy (ÅAU) and Principal Investigator of the Kone Foundation research project Doing Justice to Experience: Relations to the Difficult Past in History and Memory. During the past ten years, Ahlskog has held research fellowships at Harvard University and Södertörn University. 

Main research interests: philosophy and theory of history and the human sciences, the history of ideas. In the history of ideas, Ahlskog is primarily interested in conceptions of nation, class, language and identity in political and ideological movements during the 20th century. His philosophical and theoretical research focuses on questions concerning historical knowledge and method, action, understanding, explanation, testimony, memory, and cultural theory.

​Besides his academic research, Ahlskog is concurrently working within non-formal adult education. He was managing director (verksamhetsledare) of the organisation Folkets Bildningsförbund r.f., 2010-2020, an association organizing public discussion about social and cultural issues. In recent years, Ahlskog has been adviser (sakkunnig) for Svenska folkskolans vänner r.f., within a project about contemporary challenges for non-formal adult education.