Description of research and teaching

associate professor (title of docent) in general history at University of Helsinki

researcher, Linnaeus University, https://survivingtheunthinkable.squarespace.com/

chief editor, Settler Colonial Studies https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rset20

A Finnish native, Dr. Janne Lahti works at the University of Helsinki and Linnaeus University. He has also taught at the University of Arizona and at Free University Berlin’s Global History Program. He has been awarded the Fulbright Fellowship, Huntington Library’s Mayers Fellowship, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Distinguished Visiting Fellowship in Perth, Australia. His research focuses on global and transnational histories of settler colonialism, borderlands, the American West, and Nordic colonialism. He has authored eight books, including Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America (with Rani-Henrik Andersson, Helsinki University Press 2022), Kolonialismi Suomen rajaseuduilla (with Rinna Kullaa and Sami Lakomäki; Gaudeamus, 2022), German and United States Colonialism in a Connected World: Entangled Empires (Palgrave, 2020), Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film, with Rebecca Weaver-Hightower (Routledge, 2020), The American West and the World: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) and Wars for Empire: Apaches, the United States, and the Southwest Borderlands (University of Oklahoma Press, 2017). He can be reached at [email protected].