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Tolonen Mikko

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Description

Mikko Tolonen is professor of Digital Humanities at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Helsinki. He has a PhD in intellectual history (2010) and he is the PI and founder of the Helsinki Computational History Group (COMHIS) at the Department of Digital Humanities. Tolonen's main research focus is on the Enlightenment Era and integrated interdisciplinary studies of public discourse, knowledge production and book &amp; intellectual history that combines metadata from library catalogues as well as full-text and image libraries of books, newspapers and periodicals in early modern Europe. He is one of the editors of Hume's History of England for Oxford University Press. In 2016, he was awarded an Open Science and Research Award by Finnish Ministry of Education. In 2025 he gave the annual Voltaire Foundation lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies at the University of Oxford.  In digital humanities education, he believes in project based teaching exemplified in the annual award-winning Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon that he founded in 2015. Tolonen is also the local PI at UH within two Marie Curie Training Networks (CASCADE and MECANO). Tolonen is active in in development of infrastructures and collaborative networks. He has served in the executive board of European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) and as the chair of Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB). He has also done his share to advance humanities research infrastructure building in Finland (FIN-CLARIAH and DARIAH-FI). Tolonen supervises work across COMHIS’s wide research spectrum and welcomes contact from talented early-career scholars keen to collaborate with his group. Former international postdocs from the group have since secured lecturer positions at leading European universities. For interviews, see: CSC interview (in Finnish) &amp; 375 humanists (in English and other languages) &amp; for bluesky (bluesky (@tolonen.bsky.social) and twitter (@mikko_tolonen). Tolonen's work Mikko Tolonen’s work spans digital humanities, book history and intellectual history, focusing on early modern print culture and computational analysis. The COMHIS approach towards books as cultural artefacts, data and vehicles of meaning can be described as holistic (in other words, books are not treated merely as texts). Tolonen's research has been published in central digital humanities forums (Journal of Cultural Analytics, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Historical Methods, Digital Enlightenment Studies, Journal of Open Humanities Data and main NLP related venues such as ACL). At the same time, he has been publishing also in well-established traditional journals, such as Historical Journal, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Huntington Library Quarterly, Explorations in Economic History and in books by Oxford University Press

Keywords

digital humanities, eighteenth-century studies, intellectual history, computational history

Affiliations

University of Helsinki
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University of Helsinki
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Publications (54)

2023
AN ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATA LANDSCAPE IN THE HUMANITIES
DOI
10.5281/zenodo.6559857
A Comparative text similarity analysis of the works of Bernard Mandeville
DOI
10.61147/des.6
Reception Reader: Exploring Text Reuse in Early Modern British Publications
DOI
10.5334/johd.101

Research data (4)

2023
Reception Reader: Shakespeare text reuse dataset
Reception Reader: Shakespeare text reuse dataset