Ari Helo is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Helo has earlier worked at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, University of Oulu, and the University of Vaasa. His several books include Thomas Jefferson's Ethics and the Politics of Human Progress (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and History, Politics, and the American Past (Routledge, 2020). He writes both in English and in Finnish (not in Russian language as some info pages incorrectly assume).