1 Curriculum vitae (Finnish Advisory Board on Research Integrity format) 1. Full name and date Name: Saaritsa, Sakari Gender: Male Date of writing the CV: 1.6.2015 2. Date and place of birth, nationality, current residence Date and place of birth: 01 March 1974, Helsinki, Finland Nationality: Finnish Current residence: August 2012-July 2015 Maputo, Mozambique (permanent residence Helsinki, Finland) Contact via courier mail: Sakari Saaritsa PL 4848 FIN-00023 Valtioneuvosto Finland Tel. +258 82 1995 202 e-mail: sakari.saaritsa@helsinki.fi Website: http://tuhat.halvi.helsinki.fi/portal/en/person/ssaarits 3. Education and degrees awarded Degree: Doctor of History and Civilization of the European University Institute Institution: European University Institute, Florence, Italy Major subject/department: History and Civilization Date: 25 January 2008 Other: Thesis title: Beneath Moral Economy: Informal Assistance in Early 20 th Century Finland. Panel : Professor Jane Humphries (Oxford); Professor Laurence Fontaine (EHESS) ; Dr. Antti Häkkinen, (Helsinki); professor Arfon Rees (EUI). Defended in English and French. Degree: Master of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland Institution: University of Helsinki Major subject: Economic and social history Date: 30 May 2001 Other: Thesis grade: laudatur (highest). Minor subjects: social anthropology (grade: excellent), economics (grade: excellent) 4. Other education and training, qualifications and skills (selected) University Pedagogy 1, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 5 ECT credits, University of Helsinki, Autumn 2011 University Pedagogy 2, Constructive Alignment in Course Design, 5 ECT credits, University of Helsinki, Autumn 2011 The Design and Implementation of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Training for the National Social Aid Fund project team by the International Poverty Centre of the United Nations Development Programme, Damascus, Syria. 16-20 November 2008. Microeconometrics Summer School: Causal Inference and Program Evaluation by Guido Imbens, Panel Data Linear Analysis by Badi Baltagi, Discrete Choice Models by Sergi Jiménez-Martìn, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Barcelona, Spain. 30 June -11 July 2008. Results Based Management Monitoring & Evaluation training for UN Country Team Syria, Damascus, Syria. 20-23 April 2008. Policy, Programme and Operations Induction Workshop, UN HQ, New York, USA. 10-21 April 2007 (Including Prince 2 Project Management Certification).
2 5. Linguistic skills Finnish: Mother tongue English: TOEFL 287 / 300 18 December 2002. Swedish: Oral and written skills in the second official language passed with grade Good (highest), University of Helsinki 18 December 1999. French: Good academic comprehension, intermediate speaking and writing. Italian: Good academic comprehension, intermediate speaking and writing. Portuguese: Good academic comprehension, intermediate speaking and writing. Chinese (putonghua): Elementary speaking and comprehension. Kiswahili: Elementary survival vocabulary. Arabic: Elementary survival vocabulary. 6. Current position Postdoctoral Researcher, Academy project Counteracting Amnesia in Development Studies from the Periphery (director Juhani Koponen), Development Studies / Department of Economic and Political Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 15 April 2014-15 October 2015. 7. Previous work experience Consultant (EnergyWorks), developing the program of the II Nordic Conference on Inclusive Growth in Mozambique, Maputo, Mozambique. January 2015-March 2015 (part time). Postdoctoral Researcher (Academy of Finland), Household Risk Management Before the Welfare State, Economic and Social History / Department of Economic and Political Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. October 2013-April 2014. Postdoctoral Researcher (Academy of Finland), Household Risk Management Before the Welfare State, Economic and Social History / Department of Economic and Political Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. January 2010-July 2012. Programme Analyst (Junior Professional Officer), United Nations Development Programme, Syria Country Office, Damascus, Syria. June 2007-June 2009. Intern, Economic and Social Research Foundation, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. April-August 2006 (part time). (Research on informal transfers and formalization policies of the informal economy.) Visiting Research Student, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. January-March 2004. (PhD research, studies in development economics.) Researcher, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. September 2001-August 2006. AIESEC Trainee, SHARAN Society for Service to Urban Poverty, Delhi, India. May-August 2001. (Research on HIV and injecting drug use in Delhi.) Research assistant / Researcher, Academy project The Social History of Finnish Economic Crises (director Antti Häkkinen), Academy of Finland Research Programme on The Economic Crisis of the 1990s in Finland, Economic and Social History, Department of Social Science History, University of Helsinki, Finland. September 1998-August 2001 (part time). Parental leaves (with three children born in 2008 and 2x2011): August 2012-September 2013, September 2011-October 2011, August 2009-December 2009. (Altogether 19,5 months.) 8. Research funding, leadership and supervision Significant funds based on individual applications: Academy of Finland: Postdoctoral Researcher s Project, 2010-2012 (period extended to 2014 due to parental leave). Academy of Finland: Personal grants for doctoral studies at the European University Institute, 2001-2006. Yrjö Jahnsson foundation, Finland: Personal grant to visit the London School of Economics and Political Science. January-March 2004. Substantive participation in planning and writing funded proposals in research groups:
3 Academy project Counteracting Amnesia in Development Studies from the Periphery (director Juhani Koponen), 2013-2016 Academy project The Social History of Finnish Economic Crises (director Antti Häkkinen), 1998-2001. Leadership and supervision: Independent recruitment and supervision of a research assistant during Postdoctoral Researcher s project, 2010-2011 Independent recruitment and supervision of a research assistant during PhD project, including assumption of all employer responsibilities, 2006-2007 Officially appointed supervisor of theses: Maarit Olkkola: Poor Cognition: Early-life Socioeconomic Status and Cognitive Abilities in Adulthood. The Helsinki Birth Cohort Study 1934 1944, Master s thesis, July 2014-May 2015, graduated 2015, grade laudatur (highest). Antti Kaihovaara: Kotitalouksien sisäinen resurssienjako, työmarkkinat ja sukupuolittuneet investoinnit lasten inhimilliseen pääomaan 1920-luvun Suomessa. [Intrahousehold allocation, the labour market and gendered human capital investments in Finland in the 1920s.] Master s thesis, 2010-2011, graduated 2011, grade laudatur (highest). Risto Tuomainen: [final title n.a., on consumption and household ideology in Finland in the 1920s], BSc thesis, 2012, graduated 2012, grade 4/5. 9. Merits in teaching and pedagogical competence Pedagogical training and competence: Two courses/10 ECT of University Pedagogical training completed, grade 5/5 (see above, point 4.) Planning and implementation of courses: Independently planned and taught course Seminar on the microeconomic history of poverty, welfare and development (in English) at the University of Helsinki, 2011 and 2012. Subject: economic and social history (credited also in development studies and economics); blended learning including 14 contact hours; 10 ECT credits; Master s level; 7 weeks / one period. Jointly planned and taught course (with professor Juhani Koponen) Global development history and the Finnish experience (in Finnish), 2011. Subject: development studies (credited also in economic and social history); blended learning including 10-16 contact hours; 5-10 ECT credits; Master s level; 5 weeks / one period + 2 seminar days. Both courses have been based on a concept of blended learning combining methods and technologies from seminar discussions and group work to independent and shared work online, using Moodle software. In anonymous feedback, in 2011 the independently planned course was awared 4/5 or 5/5 in terms of satisfaction by 9 out of 11 of the mainly international students; in 2012, the same rating was received from 8 out of 10 students. Supervision of theses: For officially appointed supervisory positions, see above, point 8. In addition, altogether 5 doctoral theses have been commented on in meetings, as designated opponent in seminars, in writing, etc. (Maiju Riihola, Laura Ekholm, Andreas McKeown, Sinikka Selin, Gia Virkkunen). This includes acting as a opponent in a rehearse defence for a PhD thesis (Gia Virkkunen: Köyhyydestä ei puhuttu, sitä vain elettiin : Köyhyyden kokemus ja selviytyminen 1930-luvun pulan oloissa Suomen maaseudulla [ You did not speak of poverty, you just lived it : The experience of poverty and survival in the Finnish countryside during the Great Depression of the 1930s], Economic and social history / Department of Economic and Political Studies 28.4.2010). 10. Awards, prizes and honours Department of History and Civilization of the European University Institute: Best interdisciplinary thesis on European issues 2006-2008 (nomination for the prize competition for the best thesis 2006-2008 of the EUI Alumni Association). 2008. Social Science History Association and the Rockefeller Archives Center, USA: 2005 SSHA-Rockefeller Graduate Student Award (abstract competition for travel grants to participate in the annual conference of the Social Science History Association). 2005.
4 11. Other academic merits Deputy Board Member, Finnish Society for Labour History, 2010-present Associate Editor, Scandinavian Economic History Review 2012-2014 Referee, The History of the Family, Scandinavian Economic History Review, Kulttuurintutkimus, Cliometrica Invited papers in the following international venues: Economic History Seminar, Paris School of Economics, Paris, France. 7.11.2011. Economic and Social History Seminar, All Souls College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK 4.11.2008. Production and Distribution of Well-Being into the Family: Cost Action A-34 Core Group 3 Symposium, Barcelona, Spain 25.-27.6.2007. Séminaire Ethnographie économique, Ècole normale supérieure, Paris, France, 31st January 2005. Planner and organizer of the following international events: Session Household budgets, standards of living, strategies and allocations, Pluralism and Community: Social Science History Perspectives, 40 th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Baltimore, MD, 12.-15.11.2015. Session Inequality, household risk management and economic development, The Roots of Development: XVIth World Economic History Congress, Stellenbosch, South Africa. 9.- 13.7.2012. 7th Sound Economic History Workshop, Tampere, Finland. 19.-20.5.2012. Intervention and Deprivation: Long-Run Perspectives on Poverty and Policy, Symposium, NordWel Nordic Centre of Excellence on The Nordic Welfare State Historical Foundations and Future Challenges, University of Helsinki, Finland. 8.-9.6.2011. List of publications (Academy of Finland template) *=Journal. Translations for Finnish titles in brackets. A Peer-reviewed scientific articles * Good for girls or bad for boys? Schooling, social inequality and intrahousehold allocation in early twentieth century Finland. Cliometrica 2014, Online First DOI 10.1007/s11698-014-0123-9 Koska lääkäriin? Sosiaalinen kerrostuneisuus ja sairaanhoidon kulutus maailmansotien välisen ajan Suomessa. In: Hannikainen, Matti (ed.): Työväestö ja hyvinvointi. Helsinki: Työväen historian ja perinteen tutkimuksen seura 2014. 105-145. [Time to see a doctor? Social stratification and the consumption of health services in interwar Finland] *The poverty of solidarity: the size and structure of informal income smoothing among worker households in Helsinki, 1928. Scandinavian Economic History Review 59 (2011), 102-127. *Informal transfers, men, women and children: Family economy and informal social security in early 20 th century Finnish households. The History of the Family 13 (2008). 315-331. Verkostot työväenhistoriassa. In: Saaritsa, Sakari & Teräs, Kari (eds.): Työväen verkostot. Helsinki: Työväen historian ja perinteen tutkimuksen seura 2003. 7-34. (With Kari Teräs) [Networks in the history of labour] Kerjäläisyys sosiaaliturvajärjestelmänä. In: Saaritsa, Sakari & Teräs, Kari (eds.):
5 B Non-refereed scientific articles Työväen verkostot. Helsinki: Työväen historian ja perinteen tutkimuksen seura 2003. 235-265. [Begging as a social security system] Riskeiltä suojaavat verkostot: Epävirallinen apu maaseudun teollisuusyhteisön muistitiedossa kriisiaikoina 1900-1950. In: Blomberg-Kroll, Helena, Hannikainen, Matti & Kettunen, Pauli (eds.): Lamakirja: Näkökulmia 1990-luvun talouskriisiin ja sen historiallisiin konteksteihin. Kirja-Aurora 2002. 195-232. [Risk-sharing networks: Informal aid in the oral histories of a rural-industrial community during crisis periods, 1900-1950] Vastarinnan muuri. In: Työväenhistorian uutisvirtaa, 2015. (http://www.thpts.fi/2015/01/18/vastarinnan-muuri/) [The wall of resistance. A review essay on Enbom, Leena: Työväentalolle vai seurahuoneelle? Työväen vapaaajantoiminta, politiikka ja vastarinta 1920- ja 1930-lukujen tehdasyhdyskunnassa. Helsinki, Työväen historian ja perinten tutkimuksen seura 2014.] Koulutusinvestoinnit, kotitalouksien resurssienjako ja yhteiskuntaluokka 1900-luvun alun Suomessa. In: Saarela, Tauno & Rentola, Kimmo (eds.): Kulkijapoika on nähnyt sen: Kirjoituksia nykyhistoriasta. Helsinki: Työväen historian ja perinteen tutkimuksen seura 2014. 174-197. (With Antti Kaihovaara) [Educational investment, household resource allocation and social class in early 20 th century Finland.] Me maahanmuuttajat. In: Saaritsa, Sakari & Hänninen, Kirsi (eds.): Työväki maahanmuuttajana. Helsinki: Työväen historian ja perinteen tutkimuksen seura 2012. 7-15. (With Kirsi Hänninen) [We immigrants] Laskevan työläisen kysymyksiä. In: Työväenhistorian uutisvirtaa, 2010. (http://blogs.helsinki.fi/thptseura/2010/10/07/sakari-saaritsa-laskevan-tyolaisenkysymyksia/) [Questions from a worker who counts. A review essay on Hjelt, Vera: Tutkimus ammattityöläisten toimeentuloehdoista Suomessa 1908-1909. Työtilasto XIII. Helsinki, Keisarillisen Senaatin kirjapaino 1912] The immoral economy of the working class: The tacit social policy of the workers of Helsinki in the 1928 Cost-of-Living Study. Actas del X Simposio de Historia Económica. Analisis de Redes en la Historia Económica. Bellaterra [Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona], Enero 2005. Kerjäläisillä ei ollut toimivia yhteyksiä ruoan lähteille. Työväentutkimus 2002. 45-46. [Beggars lacked effective ties to the sources of food] Annettujen rajoitteiden vallitessa Huumausainepolitiikka ja HIV-epidemia Delhissä. In: Hannikainen, Matti & Salasuo, Mikko (eds.): Elämän muotoja: Kirjoituksia yksilöistä ja yhteiskunnasta. Koala-kustannus 2001. 169-194. [Under given constraints Drug policy and the HIV epidemic in Delhi] Blessed poverty : Identity, solidarity and past-making in a rural-industrial village, 1900-2000. In Duda, Igor et al. (eds.): THE CENTURY. Publication of the Annual conference of the International Students of History Association in Zagreb, Croatia 19.- 23.4.2000. ISHA 2000. *Sanna Kaisa Spoof: Savikkojen valtias: Jokelan tiilitehtaan sosiaalinen ja fyysinen miljöö (Summary: Living off clay: the social and physical milieu of a Finnish one-
6 company town). Book review. Scandinavian Economic History Review 47:1 (1999), 117-119. C Scientific books (Ed.) Työväki maahanmuuttajana. Helsinki: Työväen historian ja perinteen tutkimuksen seura 2012. 252 p. (With Kirsi Hänninen) [The workers as immigrants] Beneath Moral Economy: Informal Assistance in Early 20 th Century Finland. Florence: European University Institute 2008. 350 p. (Ed.) Työväen verkostot. Helsinki: Työväen historian ja perinteen tutkimuksen seura 2003. 265 p. (With Kari Teräs) [The networks of labour] D Publications intended for professional communities G Theses Rapid Situation Assessment of Drug Use and HIV in Delhi. New Delhi: Sharan Society for Service to Urban Poverty 2001.(With Dorabjee J, Sarin E, Singh S, Deepak V, Kole S et al.) Beneath Moral Economy: Informal Assistance in Early 20 th Century Finland. Doctoral thesis, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence 2008. 350 p. Selviytyminen ja muistitieto: Riskeiltä suojaavan vaihtoverkoston malli ja kellokoskelaisten epäviralliset taloudelliset suoritteet kriisiaikoina 1900-1950. Master s thesis. Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki 2001. 180 p. [Subsistence and oral history: A model of a risk-sharing exchange network and the informal economic prestations of the people of Kellokoski during crisis periods, 1900-1950]