Pertti Ahonen

My main research interests lie in modern and contemporary European history, particularly European history since the Second World War. I finished my PhD at Yale in 1999 and then spent fifteen years teaching in the UK, at the University of Sheffield and the University of Edinburgh, before coming to Jyväskylä in 2014. My publications have focused particularly on post-1945 Germany and Central Europe, as well as on international and transnational aspects of contemporary European history more generally, with a frequent thematic emphasis on the history of (forced) migrations. My books include After the Expulsion: West Germany and Eastern Europe, 1945-1990 (Oxford UP, 2003) and Death at the Berlin Wall (Oxford UP, 2010). I currently lead the research project "Expellees and Ethno-National Categorizations in Europe", which is funded by the Research Council of Finland.