Ville Kivimäki
Senior Research Fellow
Tampere University
About me
From January 2024 onwards, I'm the research director of the Finnish Literature Society in Helsinki. At Tampere University, I lead the Research Council of Finland's research project "Unequal War: Vulnerability, Stress and Survival in the Finnish Army during World War II" (2023–2027).
Project links
Research topics
Social and cultural history of the Second World War
Experience, memory, emotion and trauma as the objects of history
History of nationhood and nationalism
Gender history, especially war and masculinities in the twentieth century
History of psychiatry and psychology in Finland and Germany
Experiences of violence and the postwar society
Research unit
HEX – Research Council of Finland's Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences