Hanna Snellman


Hanna Kyllikki Snellmann is Professor of Ethnology and Vice-rector at the University of Helsinki. The focus of her research is on migration within and from the Arctic.

Career

Snellmann completed her PhD in Ethnology at the University of Helsinki in 1997. From 2004 to 2007 she was a research fellow with the Academy of Finland. In 2007 and 2008 she worked at the Lakehead University and the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki. From 2009 to 2012 she was Professor of Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä, leaving this post in 2014 to take up her current role back at the University of Helsinki.
Snellmann is a board member of the National Library of Finland.
She was admitted as a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in 2010. She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 12 December 2019.

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