Hanna Sonkajärvi
Assistant Professor of History of Law.
PhD in History and Civilizations (European University Institute, 2006).

Hanna Sonkajärvi

Lines of research

Thematic Clusters

History nature and territories
Patrimony institutions and public policies
Political economies and social relations of production

Advising subjects

Economic and social history of Western Europe, 16th-18th centuries;
History of migrations, 16th-18th centuries;
Military history, 16th-18th centuries;
Administrative history, 16th-18th centuries;
History of legal practices and institutions;
Environmental legal history.

Ongoing Research

Conventions, Coordination and Conflict: The commercial policies and political relations of Juntas y regimientos de Vizcaya in the 17th and early 18th centuries.
Legal practices at the time of the introduction of the Brazilian Commercial Code of 1850.

Selected Publications

SONKAJÄRVI, Hanna, VITAL, André Vasques (Org.). A água no Brasil: conflitos – atores – práticas. 1. ed. São Paulo: Alameda, 2018. 278 p.

SONKAJÄRVI, Hanna. Oscilando entre a escrituração mercantil, os testemunhos e a arbitragem. A construção social das provas nos casos de falência no Brasil, em meados do século XIX. Revista de História, v. 176, p. 1-29, 2017.

SONKAJÄRVI, Hanna. ‘Acudir al remedio’: Protektionsleistungen der Juntas y regimientos de Vizcaya im atlantischen Raum im 17. Jahrhundert. In: Tilman Haug; Nadir Weber; Christian Windler (Org.). Protegierte und Protektoren. Asymmetrische politische Beziehungen zwischen Partnerschaft und Dominanz (16. bis frühes 20. Jahrhundert). 1ed. Colônia: Böhlau, 2016, v. 1, p. 349-364.

SONKAJÄRVI, Hanna. Qu’est-ce qu’un étranger? Frontières et identifications à Strasbourg (1681-1789). Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2008. 224 p.

SONKAJÄRVI, Hanna. From German-speaking Catholics to French carpenters: Strasbourg guilds and the role of confessional boundaries in the inclusion and exclusion of foreigners in the eighteenth century. Urban History, v. 35, p. 202-215, 2008.

Other Info

Postdoctoral fellow at the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain (2014-2015). Feodor Lynen Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation;
Postdoctoral fellow at IUPERJ-UCAM, Rio de Janeiro (2013-2014). Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship, FAPERJ;
Postdoctoral fellow, Institut historique allemand (IHA/DHIP), Paris (2012-2013). Research Fellow at IHA/DHIP.

RESEARCH GROUPS TO WHICH SHE IS LINKED:
Legal History Network/ Red de Historia del Derecho (USP).

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