People

Kirsi Haenninen, Ph.D. candidate and Fulbright fellow

Department of Comparative Studies: http://comparativestudies.osu.edu/ .
Center for Folklore Studies: http://cfs.osu.edu/ .


Kirsi Haenninen is a Fulbright Fellow and Ph.D candidate at the Department of Comparative Studies. She is focusing on Folklore Studies and has a strong interest in Religious Studies and Narrative Studies. She received her MA in Folklore Studies from the University of Turku, Finland. Currently, she is working on her dissertation on stigmatization and revitalization of the supernatural and construction of normalcy in the Finnish first person supernatural encounter narratives. In addition to that, her research interests include history and theory of the discipline of folklore, modernization processes in Europe and social-constructionist approach to emotions. She has worked in academia, archives and NGOs, both in the US and in Europe. She is currently the archivist at the OSU Center for Folklore Studies.