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Place of Birth: Naantali, South-Western Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland
About Keijo Virtanen
- Keijo Aarre Virtanen (born 28 August 1945 in Naantali), is a Finnish historian, PhD 1980.
- In 1970 Virtanen was affiliated with the University of Turku, where he became professor 1990 in cultural history.
- He served as the Rector of the University of Turku in 1997-2012. Virtanen has focused on the spread of American culture and the cultural exchange between the European and American cultures, which has resulted in a doctoral dissertation Settlement or return (1979), where the return of Finnish emigrants from America is studied.
- He has published widely on migration history and ethnicity, U.S.
- and Canadian history and society, European integration processes, methodology of history, and university and science policies.
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