Anni Kajanus is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Helsinki. She is a cognitive and psychological anthropologist, working at the interfaces between culture and cognition, morality and cooperation. Her regional focus is China, where she has worked on a range of topics including migration, gender, education, and child-development. Most recently, Anni has focused on cross-cultural comparative study of human cooperation, morality and emotional life. Currently Anni is leading a project that brings together ethnographic and experimental approaches, to investigate the role of irritation in human sociality across 5 countries (Zimbabwe, Brazil, Finland, Sri Lanka, China). This work is funded by ERC Starting Grant and Academy of Finland. .
Prior to joining UH, Anni held the positions of Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Psychology, Harvard. Anni received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Helsinki. Anni is the author of .