Outi Fingerroos is currently Senior Assistant in Ethnology in the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä, where she coordinates the multidisciplinary Center of Excellence for Multiculturalism and Interaction and holds the position of docent. Fingerroos defended her doctoral dissertation in the Department of Comparative Religion at the University of Turku in 2004, and was awarded a grant for postdoctoral research by the Academy of Finland in 2005 in order to carry out a research project entitled “Karelia as a Place of Memories and Utopias.”