Timo Aava

Timo Aava is a historian of modern Europe focusing on the history of political thought and minority rights. Between 2023 and 2024, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During his doctoral studies, he held research positions at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Vienna. Dr. Aava also held fellowships at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies and the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg, Germany. He has also been a visiting research fellow at the University of Tartu.

 

Timo Aava holds a doctoral degree from the University of Vienna and his dissertation was recently awarded with the Grete Mostny Dissertation Prize.

 

At Yale, Dr. Aava will work on a book project on the intellectual and political history of minority rights in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century, focusing specifically on the theory and practice of minority autonomy in Estonia.