Petri Paju
PhD, docent (adj. prof.)
petpaju@utu.fi Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku |
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.
- Suomi ydinsulun ja ydinenergian rauhanomaisen käytön edelläkävijänä (2020)
- ATS Ydintekniikka
- The long road to ‘digital history’: History of computer-assisted research of the past in Finland since the 1960s (2020) Digital histories: Emergent approaches within the new digital history Paju Petri
- The reuse of texts in Finnish newspapers and journals, 1771–1920: A digital humanities perspective (2020)
- Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History
- Ydinsulku ja Suomi. 50 vuotta ydinsulkusopimuksen kansallista toimeenpanoa (2020) Paju Petri
- Digitaalinen historiantutkimus. Ennen ja nyt -lehden erikoisnumero 2/2019 (2019) Paju Petri, Rantala Heli, Salmi Hannu
- Digitaalisen historiantutkimuksen opetuskiertue (2019)
- Historiallinen Aikakauskirja
- International collaboration and Finland in the early years of computer-assisted history research: Combining influences from Nordic and Soviet Baltic historians (2019)
- CEUR Workshop Proceedings
- Jäkälän paluu: Jäkälävalistus ja tekstien uudelleenkäyttö historiallisen tutkimusteeman jäsentäjänä (2019)
- Ennen ja nyt : Historian tietosanomat
- Tekstien uudelleenkäyttö suomalaisessa sanoma- ja aikakauslehdistössä 1771–1920. Digitaalisten ihmistieteiden näkökulma (2019)
- Historiallinen Aikakauskirja
- Tietokannoista tulkintoihin: digitaalisen historiantutkimuksen käytäntöjä (2019)
- Ennen ja nyt : Historian tietosanomat



