Major scholarly fields of interest:
Ethnic Minorities; Baltic History; Diaspora; History of political thought.
Current Projects:
I am working on a book manuscript which studies the intellectual and political history of minority rights in the Baltic region in the first half of the twentieth century.
More specifically, the book analyses the discussions and the practice of non-territorial autonomy in Estonia.
Education:
2023: Dr. phil. in history, University of Vienna
2015: MA in history, University of Tartu
2011: BA in history, University of Tartu
Post-Doctoral Research:
since Ocrtober 2023:
Postdoctoral Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights
Publications:
Aava, Timo, “Refugees and Diaspora Nationalism: National Activists in Estonian Settlements in Siberia and Non-Territorial Autonomy between 1917 and 1920,“ Journal of Baltic Studies, Studies 54, no. 3 (2023): 601–23.
Aava, Timo, “Jewish Autonomy in Interwar Estonia and the Life Trajectories of Its Leaders,” S:I.M.O.N. – Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation. 10, no 1 (2023), 37-56.