Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Description of research and teaching
Mikko Tolonen is professor in digital humanities at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Helsinki. His background is in intellectual history and he is the PI of Helsinki Computational History Group (COMHIS) at the Department of Digital Humanities. He has served in the executive board of European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) and as the chair of Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB). His current main research focus is on an integrated study of public discourse, knowledge production and book history that combines metadata from library catalogues as well as full-text libraries of books, newspapers and periodicals in early modern Europe. Tolonen's area of particular interest is the Enlightenment studies, including the intellectual develpment of Bernard Mandeville and David Hume. He is one of the editors of Hume's History of England for Oxford University Press. In 2016, he was awarded an Open Science and Research Award by Finnish Ministry of Education.
For interviews, see: CSC interview (in Finnish) & 375 humanists (in English and other languages) & for twitter (@mikko_tolonen).
Fields of Science
- 615 History and Archaeology
- Digital Humanities
- intellectual history
- History of Ideas
- History of Philosophy
- book history
- Computational history
- computational humanities
- Data Science
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A Comparative text similarity analysis of the works of Bernard Mandeville
Ryan, Y. C., Mahadevan, A. & Tolonen, M., 22 Dec 2023, In: Digital Enlightenment Studies. 1, 1, p. 28-58 31 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Professional
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The Anatomy of Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Tolonen, M., Mäkelä, E. & Lahti, L., 2022, In: Eighteenth-century studies. 56, 1, p. 95-123 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Examining the Early Modern Canon: The English Short Title Catalogue and Large-Scale Patterns of Cultural Production
Tolonen, M., Hill, M. J., Ijaz, A., Vaara, V. & Lahti, L., 2021, Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture. Baird, I. (ed.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 63-119 56 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Mandeville and Hume: anatomists of civil society
Tolonen, M. S., 2013, Oxford: University of Oxford, Voltaire Foundation. 312 p. (SVEC; vol. 2013, no. 7)Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review
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Reception Reader: Exploring Text Reuse in Early Modern British Publications
Rosson, D. E., Mäkelä, E., Vaara, V., Mahadevan, A., Ryan, Y. C. & Tolonen, M., 17 Apr 2023, In: Journal of open humanities data. 9, 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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COMHIS: Helsinki Computational History Group
Tolonen, M. (Principal Investigator), Hengchen, S. (Participant), Kanner, A. (Participant), Säily, T. (Participant), Vaara, V. (Participant), Ijaz, A. (Participant), Roivainen, H. (Participant), Hill, M. J. (Participant), Ros, R. (Participant), Marjanen, J. (Participant), Mäkelä, E. (Participant), Tiihonen, I. (Participant), Lahti, L. (Participant), Tiihonen, I. L. I. (Project manager), Moretti, A. (Project manager), Vesalainen, A. J. K. (Project manager), Rosson, D. E. (Project manager), Wu, Y. (Project manager), Shu, K. (Project manager) & Hinderks, K. S. (Project manager)
01/01/2018 → …
Project: Research project
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NewsEye: A Digital Investigator for Historical Newspapers
Toivonen, H. T. (Principal Investigator), Tolonen, M. (Principal Investigator), Kaukonen, M. (Principal Investigator), Marjanen, J. (Participant), Granroth-Wilding, M. (Participant), Leppänen, L. (Participant), Avikainen, J. (Participant), Alnajjar, K. (Participant), Zosa, E. (Participant) & Hengchen, S. (Participant)
01/05/2018 → 31/01/2022
Project: Research project
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COMHIS: Computational History and Transformation of Public Discourse in Finland, 1640-1910
Tolonen, M. (Principal Investigator), Lahti, L. (Project manager), Salmi, H. (Principal Investigator), Salakoski, T. (Principal Investigator) & Kettunen, K. (Principal Investigator)
01/01/2016 → 31/12/2019
Project: Research project
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DESIR: Humanities at Scale: Evolving the DARIAH-ERIC
Tolonen, M. (Project manager) & Paavolainen, M. (Participant)
01/01/2017 → 31/12/2019
Project: Research project
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In and out of canon: HIC conference 2025
Tolonen, M. (Project manager)
Tieteellisten seurain valtuuskunta
12/02/2025 → 31/12/2025
Project: Foundations (Private Foundations, Non-Profit Foundations, Charitable Trusts)
Datasets
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Reception Reader
Tolonen, M. (Creator), Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2023
DOI: 10.5334/johd.101, https://receptionreader.com/
Dataset
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Reception Reader: Shakespeare text reuse dataset
Tolonen, M. (Creator), Rosson, D. E. (Creator), Vaara, V. (Creator), Mäkelä, E. (Creator), Mahadevan, A. (Creator) & Ryan, Y. C. (Creator), Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2023
Dataset
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Models for "A data-driven approach to studying changing vocabularies in historical newspaper collections"
Hengchen, S. (Creator), Ros, R. (Creator), Marjanen, J. (Creator) & Tolonen, M. (Creator), Zenodo, 19 Dec 2019
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3585027, https://zenodo.org/record/3585027
Dataset
Prizes
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Open Science and Research Award
Tolonen, M. (Recipient), Lahti, L. M. (Recipient), Vaara, V. P. (Recipient), Roivainen, H. H. M. (Recipient), Mäkelä, E. (Recipient) & Kanner, A. O. (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prizes and awards
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Best paper award at DHN 2019
Hill, M. J. (Recipient), Vaara, V. (Recipient), Säily, T. (Recipient), Lahti, L. (Recipient) & Tolonen, M. (Recipient), 8 Mar 2019
Prize: Prizes and awards
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Best paper award at DHN 2020
Mäkelä, E. (Recipient), Lagus, K. (Recipient), Lahti, L. (Recipient), Säily, T. (Recipient), Tolonen, M. (Recipient), Hämäläinen, M. (Recipient), Kaislaniemi, S. (Recipient) & Nevalainen, T. (Recipient), 23 Oct 2020
Prize: Prizes and awards
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Best poster award DH2019
Tolonen, M. (Recipient), Marjanen, J. (Recipient), Lahti, L. (Recipient), Roivainen, H. (Recipient) & Hill, M. J. (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Prizes and awards
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European Heritage Award
Tolonen, M. (Recipient), Toivonen, H. T. (Recipient), Kaukonen, M. (Recipient), Marjanen, J. (Recipient) & Pivovarova, L. (Recipient), 2024
Prize: Prizes and awards
Activities
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St. Andrews University
Tolonen, M. (Visiting researcher)
May 2018 → Jul 2018Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Academic visit to other institution
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UCLA DH Workshop at the University of Helsinki
Tolonen, M. (Chair of organizing committee)
7 Nov 2018 → 8 Nov 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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Does Intellectual History need Digital Humanities?
Tolonen, M. (Chair of organizing committee)
2018 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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Measuring the distribution of Hume's Scotticisms in the ECCO collection
Tiihonen, I. L. I. (Speaker), Liimatta, A. (Speaker), Pivovarova, L. (Speaker), Säily, T. (Speaker) & Tolonen, M. (Speaker)
3 Dec 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Press/Media
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HS: Tutkijat perkasivat algoritmien avulla Suomen kansallisbibliografian dataa – huomasivat, että yliopiston siirto Turusta Helsinkiin romautti julkaisemisen vuosikymmeniksi 1800-luvulla
Tolonen, M. S., Lahti, L., Vaara, V., Roivainen, H. H. M., Marjanen, J. P., Kanner, A. O., Vesanto, A., Ginter, F., Mäkelä, J. I. E., Hill, M. J., Säily, T. I., Ijaz, A. Z. & Hengchen, S.
23/01/2018
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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SHARP NEWS review: Ileana Baird, ed. Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture.
Vaara, V., Tolonen, M., Hill, M. J., Ijaz, A. & Lahti, L.
29/02/2024
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Liberty Matters Author interview, November 2020
17/11/2020
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Talous ja moraali kirjan pohjalta haastattelu, Kalle Haatasen ohjelma, 52 min
16/01/2016
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media