CURRICULUM VITAE Minna Johanna PIIPPONEN April 2011 Date and place of birth: April 24 th 1968, Kiihtelysvaara, Finland Home address: Tohmajärventie 820, FI-82180 Huhtilampi, Finland Mobile: +358 50 5982469 Email: minna.piipponen@uef.fi EDUCATION 2007 Ph.D. (Human Geography) University of Joensuu, Finland 2004 Licentiate of Social Science (Human Geography) University of Joensuu, Finland 1996 Master of Social Science (Human Geography) University of Joensuu, Finland DISSERTATION Metsäsektorin rakennemuutos 1990-luvun Lähi-Venäjällä. Resurssi- ja teollisuusyhteisöjen haasteet (North-West Russia s Restructuring Forest Sector in the 1990s. The challenges of resource and industrial communities) CURRENT POSITION 2011 (9 months) Karelian Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, University of Eastern Finland Head of Education (koulutuspäällikkö), Project for establishing VERA - Centre for Russian and Border Studies OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE TEACHING: 2011 (3 months) Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, University of Eastern Finland Study Coordinator, Researcher (opintokoordinaattori, tutkija) Study Programme on Russian and Border Studies 2010 (6 months) Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, University of Eastern Finland Study Coordinator, Researcher (opintokoordinaattori, tutkija) Study Programme on Russian and Border Studies 2008 2009 (2 years) Department of History, University of Joensuu Lecturer (lehtori)
Study Programme on Russian and Border Studies 2004 and 2001 (1 year 5 months) Department of Geography, University of Joensuu Senior Assistant Professor (yliassistentti) Master s Degree in Human Geography Programme (taught in English) RESEARCH: 2007 (8 months) Department of Geography, University of Joensuu, project Does the Geography of Russian North Really Change?, funded by the Academy of Finland, lead by Prof. Markku Tykkyläinen 2005 and 2002 2003 (3 years) Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki, project Russia, Finland and Globalization in a Micro Perspective, funded by the Academy of Finland, lead by Dr. Markku Lonkila 2001 and 1999 (1 year 7 months) Karelian Institute, University of Joensuu, project Civic Culture and Nationality in North-West Russia and Estonia, funded by the Academy of Finland, lead by Prof. Ilkka Liikanen 1998 (3 months) Karelian Institute, University of Joensuu, project Civil Culture in the European North, funded by the Karelian Institute, lead by Prof. Ilkka Liikanen 1998 (2 months) Karelian Institute, University of Joensuu, project Rural Survival Strategies in Transitional Countries. A comparative study of localities in northwestern Russia and Hungary, funded by the Academy of Finland, lead by Prof. Markku Tykkyläinen 1997 1998 (4 months) Faculty of Forestry, University of Joensuu, project Taiga Model Forest / Social Sustainability, lead by Prof. Olli Saastamoinen 1997 (3 months) Karelian Institute, University of Joensuu, project Rural Survival Strategies in Transitional Countries. A comparative study of localities in northwestern Russia and Hungary, funded by the Academy of Finland, lead by Prof. Markku Tykkyläinen OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE: 1996 1997 (10 months) Ylivieska Subregion (Finland), project Distance and Tele-Work in Ylivieska Subregion Project Manager (projektin johtaja) RESEARCH VISITS ABROAD 2010 (5 months) The University of Montana, Department of Geography & Department of Sociology, U.S.A Visiting Researcher
ASLA-Fulbright Research Grant for a Junior Scholar, Finland-U.S. Educational Exchange Commission (Fulbright Centre) & J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board 1999 (3 kk) IIIASA Institute (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Laxenburg, Austria Participator of the Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) OTHER INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany 2008 Collaboration with the Institute s research project Geographies at the Edges of the European Project (1 ½ months), case study on the Finnish-Russian border IIIASA Institute (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Laxenburg, Austria 2000 International Policy Exercise: Institutional Problems of the Forest Sector in the Republic of Karelia, organised by the IIASA Institute/Sustainable Boreal Forest Resources, with the support of the Government of the Republic of Karelia, November 30 December 1 2000, Petrozavodsk 1998 Collaboration with the Institute s research project Sustainable Boreal Forest Resources (4 months), the case study of the Republic of Karelia PAPERS IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES A Resource in Negotiation? The Border Between Finland and Russia. ICCEES (International Council for Central and East European Studies) VIII World Congress, Stockholm, July 26 th - 31 st 2010. Session: Together with Dmitry Zimin (University of Eastern Finland) and Kristine Müller ((IRS, Germany) Prosperity Barrier or Socio-Economic Transition Zone? Local Strategies of Handling Disparities at the External EU Border. Deutscher Geographentag, Wien, Austria, September 19 th 26 th 2009. Together with Kristine Müller ((IRS, Germany) and Andreas Wust (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany) Employees Work-Related Ties in the Everyday Life of Post-Soviet Mill Communities. Three Case Studies from North-West Russia. ICCEES (International Council for Central and East European Studies) VII World Congress, Berlin, July 25 th - 30 th 2005. Local Community Formation around a Factory: Social Networks, Local Social System and Local Identity in a Mill Town in the Republic of Karelia, Russia. ICCEES (International Council for Central and East European Studies) VI World Congress, Tampere (Finland) July 29 th - August 3 rd 2000. Everyday Living Change of the Settlement System in Forest Communities in Russian Karelia. IGU (International Geographical Union) Commission Dynamics of Marginal and Critical Regions, Coimbra, Portugal, August 24 th - 29 th 1998.
ACTIVITY AND MEMPERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Member of the Finnish Association for Russian and East European Studies Member of the Board, 2002 2006 Member of the Organising Committee of the IV Annual Research Days, co-organised by the association and the University of Joensuu, March 11 th - 12 th 2004 Member of the Geographical Society of Finland PUBLICATIONS Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals Kotilainen, J. ja M. Piipponen (2009). Kontrolli ristiriidat ja konsensus: Metsävarojen hallinnan muotoutuminen Venäjällä. (in Finnish) (Control, Conflict and Concensus: the Formation of Forest-Related Resource Governance in Russia) Terra 121 (3), 187-198. Piipponen, M. (2002). Työ traktoritehtaan työntekijöiden verkostoiss. (in Finnish) (Work and the social networks of a tractor factory employees) Idäntutkimus (The Finnish Review of East European Studies) 4/2002, 69-79. Piipponen, M. (1999). Transition in the Forest Sector of the Republic of Karelia, Russia. Fennia 177 (2), 185-233. Articles in Books and Conference Proceedings Piipponen, M. (2008). What Happened to a Territorial Forest Production Complex and its Communities in North-West Russia? In Rautio, V, & M. Tykkyläinen (eds.) Russia s Northern Regions on the Edge. Communities, Industries and Populations from Murmansk to Magadan, 143-161. Kikimora Publications, Helsinki. Piipponen, M. (2004). Work-Related Ties in the Everyday Life of a Russian Karelian Mill Community. In Alapuro, R., I. Liikanen & M. Lonkila (eds.) Beyond Post-Soviet Transition. Micro Perspectives on Challenge and Survival in Russia and Estonia, 64-83. Kikimora Publications, Helsinki. Piipponen, M. (2002). Social Networks and Industrial Community in Post-Soviet Space: The Pulp Mill at Pitkäranta in Karelia, Russia. In Flink, T. & K. Hirvasaho (eds.) Studia Slavica Finlandensia, Tomus XIX. Boundaries of Earth and Consciousness, 257-290. Proceedings of the VI ICCEES World Congress, Tampere 2000. Finnish Institute for Russian and East European Studies, Helsinki. Piipponen, M. (2000). Residential and Settlement Issues of Forest Sector Communities in the Republic of Karelia, Russia. In Majoral, R., H. Jussila & F. Delgado-Cravidão (eds.) Environment and Marginality in Geographical Space. Issues of land use, territorial marginalization and development in the new millennium, 263-279. Ashgate, Aldershot. Piipponen, M. (2000). Residential Issues of Two Transitional Forestry Villages in the Karelian Republic. In Varis, E. (ed.) Transitional Survival Strategies of Peripheral Resource Communities in Hungary and North-Western Russia, 40-55. Studies on the Northern Dimension vol. 5. Finnish Institute for Russian and East European Studies, Helsinki. Piipponen, M. (1998). Asuminen Venäjän Karjalan metsätyökylässä. (in Finnish) (Residential issues in a forestry village of the Russian Karelia) In Oksa, J. (ed.) Koivuselkä metsätyökylä Venäjän Karjalassa. (Koivuselga a forestry village in the Russian Karelia), 125-138. Publications of the Karelian Institute 121, University of Joensuu.
Monographs Piipponen, M. (2007). Metsäsektorin rakennemuutos 1990-luvun Lähi-Venäjällä: Resurssi- ja teollisuusyhteisöjen haasteet (in Finnish) (North-West Russia s Restructuring Forest Sector in the 1990s: the challenges of resource and industrial communities), Kikimora Publications, Helsinki. 238pp. Other Scholarly Publications Piipponen, M. (2010). Venäjä, uusiutuva energia ja kansainvälinen yhteistyö (in Finnish). (Russia, renewable energy and international cooperation). Book Review in Terra 122 (4), 237-238. Piipponen, M. (2006). Working Community Structures and Employee Generations: Three mill communities of Northwest Russia in the 1990s, Aleksanteri Papers 2:2006, 33 p. (http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/julkaisut/ap_2_2006.pdf) Piipponen, M. (2005). Employees Work-Related Ties in the Everyday Life of Post-Soviet Mill Communities. Three Case Studies from North-West Russia. In Europe Our Common Home? ICCEES VII World Congress. Abstracts, 315-316. German Association for East European Studies & International Council for Central and East European Studies, Berlin. Piipponen, M. (2002). Social Networks and Civic Culture in Estonia and North-Western Russia. Reports of the Karelian Institute 3/2002. University of Joensuu. (with M. Lonkila), 123pp. Piipponen, M. (2000). Local Community Formation around a Factory: Social Networks, Local Social System and Local Identity in a Mill Town in the Republic of Karelia, Russia. In Abstracts. VI ICCEES World Congress, 330. International Council for Central and East European Studies, Finnish Institute for Russian and East European Studies, Helsinki. Piipponen, M. (1999). Households and Living Conditions in the Forest Village of Matrosy, Russian Karelia. Research Notes 99, Faculty of Forestry. University of Joensuu. (with K. Karkinen, J. Klementev, J. Oksa, N. Polevshchikova, G. Romanov, O. Saastamoinen & E. Varis), 51pp. Piipponen, M. (1994). Kenen ehdoilla kalavaroja hyödynnetään? Onkamojärven kalastuskiistan taustoja. (in Finnish) (On whose terms will the fish resources be harvested? Some background to the Lake Onkamo fishery conflict) Kalatutkimuksia 82. Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute, Helsinki. (with P. Salmi, L. Juvonen, K. Laamanen and M. Pitkänen) 33pp.