Dr Katja Mäkinen (MAs in Political Science and Art Education; DSocSc in Political Science) is a Post-doctoral Researcher at the MACS, JYU, Finland, in Lähdesmäki´s ERC project EUROHERIT. Her previous projects include ‘Politics of Participation and Democratic Legitimation in the European Union’ (Kone Foundation) and ‘Muddy Waters – Democracy and Governance in a Multilateral State’ (Academy of Finland). Previously she has worked as a junior lecturer in political science and a senior lecturer in cultural policy at the University of Jyväskylä. Mäkinen specializes in citizenship; citizens’ participation and identities; cultural heritage; spatiality and territoriality, democracy and power questions related to citizenship and culture; EU’s participatory governance; ethnography; EU programs on citizenship and culture; policy documents; and language, concepts, conceptual changes and histories, and this experience will be an asset to the DIALLS project. Mäkinen was the governor of the Standing Group on Citizenship in the European Consortium for Political Research (2016-2017) and a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (2018). She is a co-editor of Shaping Citizenship – A Political Concept in Theory, Debate and Practice
