Päivi Setälä

Päivi Eeva Marjatta Priha was born on 20 January 1943 in Kuopio.

Setälä worked at the university as a history assistant between 1970 and 1982, and in the 1980s, held several professor positions.

In 1991, she was appointed as an extraordinary professor of women's history at the Kristiina Institute, founded in the same year.

[4] After three years of professorship, she served as Director of the Finnish Institute in Rome from 1994 to 1997.

The work Kuningatar Kristiina – aikansa eurooppalainen ("Queen Kristiina, the European of her time") (1990), which she co-authored with Matti Klinge, Laura Kolbe, and Maria-Liisa Nevala, received the honorary mention for the Finlandia Prize.