Miia Kuha

Miia Kuha

Visiting Researcher
Unit
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department / Division
Department of History and Ethnology
Fields of science
615 History and Archaeology

Biography

I work on the cultural and social history of the early modern era with special interest in the 17th century, women, families, and religion. My ongoing research project Women of the clerical estate: Clergymen’s wives and widows in Lutheran local communities (1650–1710) is funded by the Academy of Finland (2021–24).

Research interests

My research project focuses on the position, roles, agency and lived experience of clergymen’s wives and widows in the parish communities of the early modern Swedish kingdom, especially Eastern Finland. I use court records, petitions and funeral biographies as main source material. My research interests include the history of the family, gender history, lived religion, history of emotions, and history of experience.

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