Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Curriculum vitae
My main research interests are the history of knowledge and science, especially in the context of the history of geographical thought and imaginations, map history, material culture, and the history of nineteenth-century European expansion and colonialism.
Teaching in 2023: Näkökulmia kolonialismiin ja dekolonialismiin; Intersektionaalisuus ja historia
Current project: Producing and mobilizing geographical knowledge in the Finnish society, c. 1850-1930 (Academy of Finland, 2020-2023)
Fields of Science
- 615 History and Archaeology
- History of knowledge
- History of science
- History of geographical thought
- History of mapping
- Map history
- Colonialism
- British Empire
- Transnational History
- Cultural history
- Material culture research
- 519 Social and economic geography
- Human geography
- historical geography
- geographies of knowledge
- geographies of science
International and National Collaboration
Publications and projects within past five years.
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Esseiden arviointimatriisi opetuksen ja oppimisen tukena
Bastman, E-L., Härkönen, H., Kekki, S., Pauha, T., Ranta, E., Rauhala, A. & Skurnik, J. E., 16 May 2023, Kulttuurien tutkimuksen pedagogiikka. Lillbroända-Annala, S., Mäki, M. & Olsson, P. (eds.). Turku: Ethnos ry, (Ethnos-toimite; no. 23).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Historia Nyt! THY 100 vuotta - Hetkiä Turun historiassa 100 vuoden ajalta
Translated title of the contribution :History now! Research output: Book/Report › Anthology or special issue › General public
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Kolonialismin historian haaste tiedonhistorialle: Informantit, tutkimusmatkailijat ja kartantekijät
Translated title of the contribution :The challenge of the history of colonialism to the history of knowledge: Informants, explorers and mapmakers Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Lähtökohtia tiedonhistoriaan
Translated title of the contribution :Introduction to the history of knowledge Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Positioning the North: Making British Geographical Knowledge of Australia in the Mid- Nineteenth Century
Skurnik, J. E., 2023, (Accepted/In press) Beyond Science and Empire: Circulation of Knowledge in an Age of Global Empires (1750-1945). Duarte da Silva, M. A., Haddad, T. A. S. & Raj, K. (eds.). RoutledgeResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Producing and mobilizing geographical knowledge in Finnish society, 1850-1930
01/09/2020 → 31/08/2023
Project: Research project
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Mapping the British Empire: John Arrowsmith and the business of mapmaking in the mid-nineteenth century
01/01/2018 → 31/08/2020
Project: Research project
Prizes
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Doctor of the Humanities award, University of Turku
Skurnik, Johanna Emilia (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prizes and awards
Activities
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Total Recall – Avaruuden kolonisaatio ja asutuskolonialismi elokuvan silmin
Johanna Emilia Skurnik (Speaker)
28 Apr 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Publishing Global Knowledges and Popularizing Colonial Geographies in Finland in the 1920s
Johanna Emilia Skurnik (Speaker)
13 Apr 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Thinking about the materiality of maps..in the Finnish archives
Johanna Emilia Skurnik (Speaker)
10 May 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Mapping a Collective Experience of Settling North America: The Finnish Geohistorical Imaginations of the Delaware Colony
Johanna Emilia Skurnik (Speaker)
13 Mar 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Seminar on the history of science, knowledge and technology
Johanna Emilia Skurnik (Teacher)
3 Feb 2023 → 4 May 2023Activity: Other activity types › Types for other activities - External teaching and subject coordination