Pertti Ahonen

Pertti Ahonen is a Professor in the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä. He completed his PhD at Yale University in 1999 and held teaching positions at the University of Sheffield and the University of Edinburgh for fifteen years before joining Jyväskylä in 2014.

His research focuses on modern and contemporary European history, particularly post-1945 Germany and Central Europe, with emphasis on forced migrations, transnational history, and ethno-national categorizations. Notable publications include After the Expulsion (Oxford UP, 2003) and Death at the Berlin Wall (Oxford UP, 2010).

Current research projects include

• Expellees and Ethno-National Categorizations in Europe, funded by the Research Council of Finland (2021-2025)
• Collaboration on Rethinking the Politics of Environment (2020-2022).

His academic contributions span book reviews, journal articles, and conference organization, reflecting engagement with postwar European political discourse, Germany's Cold War dynamics, and migration studies.