Petri Paju
PhD, docent (adj. prof.)
petpaju@utu.fi Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2486-2364 |
history of technology; history of nuclear energy; cultural history; business history
I have written broadly on history of technology in Finland and on computing history in the Nordic countries. I’ve been involved in several projects on digital history, including Computational History and the Transformation of Public Discourse in Finland, 1640–1910 (2016–2019), and two Kone Foundation funded projects since 2016: Towards a Roadmap for Digital History in Finland and its continuation From Roadmap to Roadshow: A collective demonstration & information project to strengthen Finnish digital history. I’m mostly interested in the historical development of the digital history approaches, and in applying computational methods to answer various relevant historical research questions.
In 2020, I was a Principal Investigator in an externally funded project on Finland and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). This line of research was continued in 2021 in another project concerning the final disposal of spent nuclear fuel and preservation of knowledge and memory of it.
In late 2020, I continued research as a project member in the project Informationsflöden över Östersjön: Svenskspråkig press som kulturförmedlare 1771-1918 (PI Prof. Hannu Salmi). Results from that project and from other ones can be found in my publications list.
In 2026, I work for instance on ammonia history and in the project Imagined Homelands. The Finnish-language Press in North America 1876–1923 and the Digital Study of Transnational Culture, see: https://sites.utu.fi/kuvitellutkotimaat/en/
Kulttuurihistorian oppiaineessa vedimme maisteriopintoihin kuuluvaa modernin aikakauden historia -teemaryhmää yhdessä Heli Rantalan kanssa kesään 2024 asti. Osallistun välillä myös muuhun kuten luento-opetukseen.
- Kuviteltu avaruus. Matkoja maan ulkopuolelle. (2021) Kurvinen Heidi, Paju Petri, Saarikoski Petri
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Muutama sana Turun romantikosta (2021) Turun romantikko. Esseitä Hannu Salmelle Saarelainen Juhana, Rantala Heli, Paju Petri, Oiva Mila
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Poikkeusajan keksinnöt – vastikenäyttelyssä vuonna 1918 (2021) Paju Petri
(Other publication) - Text reuse in the Swedish-language press, 1645–1918: Database (2021) Vesanto Aleksi, Paju Petri, Rantala Heli, Edoff Erik, Lundell Patrik, Marjanen Jani, Salmi Hannu
(I2 ICT program or software application ) - Turun romantikko. Esseitä Hannu Salmelle. (2021) Saarelainen Juhana, Rantala Heli, Paju Petri, Oiva Mila
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - White Wall -televisiosarja houkuttaa pohtimaan ydinjätteen loppusijoitusta (2021)
- Turun Sanomat
(E1 Popularised article) - Book review: The Peregrine Profession. Transnational mobility of Nordic engineers and architects, 1880–1930. Per-Olof Grönberg: The Peregrine Profession. Transnational mobility of Nordic engineers and architects, 1880–1930. ISBN 978-90-04-36647-3. (2020)
- Scandinavian Economic History Review
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Digital and Distant Histories: Emergent Approaches within the New Digital History (2020) Digital histories: Emergent approaches within the new digital history Paju Petri, Oiva Mila, Fridlund Mats
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Digital Histories: Emergent Approaches within the New Digital History (2020) Mats Fridlund, Mila Oiva, Petri Paju
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Finland and nuclear non-proliferation. Fifty years of implementing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (2020) Paju Petri
(Other publication)



