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Ingrian Laments. It took 20 years to bring her thesis to final publication. She collected between 600 and 700 texts, mostly of wedding laments and provided both the original texts and translations into English. Nenola examined the tradition of mourning texts as they appeared in the Ingrian region across both Finland and Russia. Rather than analyzing the socio-political battleground of the region, as was typical of other studies of the Ingrian culture, she looked at the distinct tradition of women's poetry. Employing an interdisciplinary method including anthropology, social psychology, sociology, and theology, her work sought to determine how lamentations were used in society and the meaning behind the tradition. Her approach, using techniques from women's studies were influential, and could be seen in other analysis of the genre, such as a study,
200:. In 2003, after years of lobbying by Nenola, the women's studies program at the University of Helsinki was given full accreditation as a degree major. Though she had pressed for the program to gain autonomy, she also wanted it to be integrated within other majors, but that was not realized during her tenure. In 2004, Nenola moved into administration, serving as the first woman to be Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Helsinki University until 2006. She was awarded the Maikki Friberg Equality Award in 2006 and retired in 2007.
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