Rate My Professor Kirsi Saarikangas

Saarikangas has advanced through key academic roles since the 1990s. Appointed Professor of Art History in 2010, she served as Vice-dean of the Faculty of Arts for teaching (2010–2013), Director of the doctoral programme in History and Cultural Heritage (since 2014), Director of the national doctoral programme in women’s studies (2007–2011), Acting Professor of women’s studies (1994–1995, 2003–2009), Director of the Christina Institute (2003–2009), and Academy of Finland Senior Research Fellow (2001–2003). Notable publications include her editorship of Suomen kulttuurihistoria 1–5 (State Award for Public Information, 2006), Homes in Transformation: Dwelling, Moving, Belonging (2009), Lived, Material and Planned Welfare: Mass-Produced Suburbanity in 1960s and 1970s Metropolitan Finland (2023), and “Lähiöiden luontokulttuurit: Ihmisen ja muun luonnon välisyydestä I” (2023). Awards include the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters scholarship for her outstanding doctoral dissertation (1994) and membership in the Teachers’ Academy (2015–). She supervises doctoral programmes in Gender, Culture, and Society; History and Cultural Heritage; Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences; and Philosophy, Arts, and Society, and participates in committees, assessments, editorial roles, and public lectures.