Pasi Ihalainen has published extensively on the history of political discourse and the conceptual history of nationalism, internationalism, democracy and parliamentarism since the eighteenth century, applying comparative and transnational approaches. He has served as a visiting professor at Freiburg, Gothenburg, Leiden, Uppsala and Utrecht. He is President of the Association for Political History and leads a major digital history project, “Political Representation: Tensions between Parliament and the People from the Age of Revolutions to the 21st Century” (Research Council of Finland, 2021–2026), within which he writes a long-term comparative history of representative democracy in Northwest Europe. His co-edited books include Writing Conceptual History (London, 2025) and The Figure of the Politician in Modern and Contemporary Europe (New York, 2026).

Pasi Ihalainen is in residence in March 2026
This information is accurate as of the academic year 2025-26.