Contributors
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Blagovesta Cholova
Blagovesta Cholova is Phd /teaching assistant at the Centre d’études de la vie politique (CEVIPOL) at Université libre de Bruxelles ( Free university of Brussels), Belgium. She is a member of the IPSA, ECPR and ABSP associations. Her research focuses on Populism and political parties in Central and Eastern Europe and especially in Bulgaria. Her Phd thesis is on the Right-wing populist parties in Bulgaria.

Herta Schmid
Professor emerita at Potsdam University. Professorships at universities in Bochum, Munich and Potsdam in Slavic literary studies, especially Russian, Polish and Czech.

Yury Bit-Yunan
PhD and lecturer on literary criticism at the Russian State University for the Humanities.

Henriette Cederlöf
Henriette Cederlöf is a PhD student in Russian literature at BEEGS (Baltic and Eastern European Graduate School). She is currently completing her thesis about the 1970s fiction of the Strugatsky brothers.

Sasha Tsenkova
Professor of planning and international development, University of Calgary, Faculty of Environmental Design, Canada.

Natalia Murray
In 1998 she completed her doctoral thesis at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. At present Natalia is writing her second PhD thesis, at the Courtauld Institute (where she is also lecturing on twentieth-century Russian Art), on the development of proletarian art in Russia after the 1917 Revolution.

Kenneth J. Knoespel
McEver Professor of Engineering and the Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech. He has a joint appointment with the School of History, Technology and Society and an adjunct appointment in the College of Architecture.

Arne Jarrick
Professor of history at Stockholm University. Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Professor Arne Jarrick is currently conducting a project on cultural dynamics and the global history of law at the Center for the Study of Cultural Evolution, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies.

Anna Kharkina
PhD candidate in history, affiliated with two Swedish universities: Södertörn University and Stockholm University. Anna Kharkina previously worked in various cultural institutions in Russia and as a freelance curator and writer.

Freek van der Vet
The author is a PhD candidate at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki.
Nadezda Petrusenko
PhD-student in history, Södertörn University.

Cristian Norocel
PhD candidate in political science at the University of Helsinki (Finland), and a visiting researcher at the University of Stockholm (Sweden).

Arseniy Svynarenko
Arseniy Svynarenko is Ukrainian born sociologist and youth researcher, lives and works in Finland.
Riikka Nisonen
PhD, is researcher in the Aleksanteri Instititute (The Finnish Centre of East European and Russian Studies) of the University of Helsinki. She recieved her PhD in history at the University of Tampere in 2012.
Niklas Nilsson
Niklas Nilsson is a Doctoral Candidate in Political Science at Södertörn University and Uppsala University. He is currently a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University.
Per Eklöf
Freelance journalist and photographer, Stockholm

Inga Aalia & Kjetil Duvold
Inga Aalia, holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Vilnius and a master’s degree from the University of Oslo. Kjetil Duvold, PhD in political science. Positions at Södertörn, Humboldt, Vytautas Magnus, and Vilnius universities.
Sven Rücker
Received his PhD in philosophy from Freie Universität Berlin in 2010, where he is currently teaching. His dissertation “Das Gesetz der Überschreitung: Eine philosophische Geschichte der Grenzen” will be published by Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2012.

Hannah Lutz
Recently completed an MA in comparative literature and gender studies at Åbo Akademi University in Finland.

Eneken Laanes
A senior research fellow at the Under and Tuglas Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.

Vsevolod Bashkuev
A historian, and research fellow at the Institute of Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan studies, Ulan–Ude, Russia.

Olaf Haagensen
PhD student at the University of Agder (Norway), working on a dissertation on Holocaust literature from the period 1990–2010. He is also a literary critic in the Norwegian weekly newspaper Morgenbladet.

Per Bolin
Associate professor of history and research director at CBEES. Specializes in the modern history of the Baltic states, particularly Latvia and Lithuania.
Mike Dennis
Is Professor of Modern German History, School of Law, Social Sciences and Communications, University of Wolverhampton.

Lars Johannsen
Ph.D., Department of Political Science and Government, Faculty of Business and Social Science, Aarhus University.

Yuliya Yurchuk
PhD Student in History, Department of Gender, Culture and History, Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS), Södertörn University

Nicholas Aylott
Senior lecturer in political science, research leader, Södertörn University, Stockholm.

Kutte Jönsson
Associate professor of sport philosophy and sport ethics, Department of Sport Sciences at Malmö University.

Anders Nordström
Anders Nordström has a Ph.D. in political science and is post doctoral researcher at CBEES since 2010. His main specialization is European politics, transnational regulation and international organizations monitoring of states with a focus on the Council of Europe and the Eastern Enlargement of this organization.

Kevin Deegan-Krause & Tim Haughton
Kevin Deegan-Krause (to the right) is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wayne State University. Tim Haughton (to the left) is Senior Lecturer in the Politics of Central and Eastern Europe at the University of Birmingham and the 2011-12 Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.

Bo Petersson
Professor of political science and professor of international migration and ethnic relations (IMER), Culture and Society, Malmö University.

Ann-Mari Sätre
Associate professor of economics, senior lecturer/ senior researcher at UCRS , Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
Jukka Pietiläinen
PhD, senior research at Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki. He is currently finishing a book on Russian magazines and starting article on fraud in Russian elections.

Pärtel Piirimäe
Associate professor of history at the University of Tartu. Has been a research fellow at St. John’s College, University of Cambridge.

Ekaterina Kalinina
Since February 2010 she is PhD-student at Södertörns Högskola (BEEGS - Baltic and East European Graduate School.

Katri Pynnöniemi
PhD in international relations; researcher at the Finnish Institute of Foreign Affairs, Helsinki.

Per Jönsson
Editor at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), Stockholm, foreign affairs reporter for the daily Dagens Nyheter 1980—2010.

Teresa Kulawik & Renata Ingbrant
Teresa Kulawik, Professor of Gender Studies, Södertörn University and Renata Ingbrant, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stockholm University.

Maria Janion
Professor of literature Maria Janion is seen as an archaeologist of Polish culture and national identity, and is recognized as the nestor of gender studies in Poland.

Tomaž Deželan
Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana; researcher at the Centre for Political Science Research at the same faculty.
Helmut Müller-Enbergs & Thomas Wegener Friis
Helmut Müller-Enbergs, adj. professor, University of Southern Denmark; Guestprofessor, University of Gotland; Senior Researcher The agency of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi records (BStU). Thomas Wegener Friis, associate professor and network coordinator at the Centre for Cold War at the Department for History and Civilization, University of Southern Denmark

Jonas Harvard
Manager for the Nordic Spaces programme, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University.

Johan Öberg
Research Officer, Faculty Office for Fine and Applied Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Fredrik Eriksson
PhD in history, researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University. Has written on agricultural policy and the Swedish Conservative Party.

Egle Rindzevičiūtė
PhD in cultural studies; post-doctoral researcher at the Gothenburg Research Institute of the Stockholm School of Economics, the University of Gothenburg, and Tema Q, Linköping University, Sweden

Björn Rombach
Professor of business administration at the School of Public Administration, University of Gothenburg

Jacob Christensen
Jacob Christensen is an associate professor at the Centre for Welfare State Studies at the Department of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense.

Ingmar Oldberg
Associate researcher in the Russia program at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (Stockholm).

Barbara Lönnqvist
Professor of Russian at the Åbo Akademi University and associate professor of Slavic languages at Stockholm University.

Madeleine Granvik
Human geographer, PhD in landscape planning and assistant professor in planning for sustainable development and management of urban-rural interactions.

Uffe Østergaard
Professor of European history at the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, and former director of the Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Péteris Timofejevs Henriksson
PhD student at Umeå University. His research focuses on Europeanization of Central and Eastern European countries.

Robert Hislope
Robert Hislope (Ph.D., Ohio State, 1995) teaches comparative politics at Union College (Schenectady, New York).

Adam Michnik
Editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, where he sometimes writes under the pen names Andrzej Zagozda or Andrzej Jagodziński. In 1966–1989, one of the leading organizers of the illegal, democratic opposition in Poland. He is the recipient of many awards, including a Knight of the Legion of Honour.

Mats Bergquist
PhD in political science. Chancellor of Växjö University and Chairman of the Board of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.

Rikke Petersson
Former lecturer in Swedish language and literature at the University of Munster, Germany 1982–2004.

Anja Schnabel
PhD in German literature (Hanover) on Peter Weiss. Lecturer at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense.

Natalia Poltavtseva
Associate Professor. Reader at the Russian Anthropological School, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow. Senior Researcher at the Russian Institute for Cultural Research, Moscow.

Anna Storm
Postdoc at CBEES. Her dissertation Hope and Rust: Reinterpreting the Industrial Place in the Late 20th Century was published in 2008.

Matthew Kott
Holds a PhD in history. Coordinator of Romani Studies at the Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University. Reviews editor, Journal of Baltic Studies. Affiliated with the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia.

Gunnar Wetterberg
Head of research at Saco, The Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations. Author of a biography of Axel Oxenstierna. Holds an honorary doctorate from Lund University.

David Kirby
Professor at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. Among his publications are Finland in the Twentieth Century (1979), Northern Europe in the Early Modern Period (1990) and The Baltic World 1772–1993 (1995).

Karin S Lindelöf
Ethnologist who completed her PhD in 2006 with the thesis If we now are going to be like Europe – the creation of gender and normality among young women in the Poland. Postdoc at Stockholm University.

Geir Flikke
Senior Fellow, Department for International Politics, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)

Sofie Bedford
Sofie Bedford, PhD in political science, Stockholm University. Sofie’s main research interest is the political developments of the former Soviet sphere, especially Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Emelie Lilliefeldt
Emelie Lilliefeldt is a PhD candidate at Stockholm University and in the Baltic and East European Graduate School, Södertörn University. Her research covers party organization and party behavior in Europe.

Åsa Bengtsson
Åsa Bengtsson (Pol.dr, Docent) is an Academy Researcher at Åbo Akademi University in Finland. She specializes in public opinion and electoral research.

Klaus Misgeld & Karl Molin
Klaus Misgeld is professor of history and former research director at the Labor Movement Archives and Library (ARAB). Karl Molin is professor in history, Stockholm University.

Peter Johnsson
Peter Johnsson is a foreign correspondent. Working for Nordic media and based in Warsaw he has covered the countries in East-Central Europe since 1980. He is the author of several books on Poland and polish history.

Ann-Cathrine Jungar
Ann-Cathrine Jungar is associate professor at Södertörn university and Director of Studies of BEEGS (Baltic and East European Graduate School).

Archie Brown
Archie Brown is Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford University and an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford. He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1991 and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2003. His most recent book is The Rise and Fall of Communism (2009).

Sergey Zhuravlev & Jukka Gronow
Together Gronow and Zhuralev have written a history of pre-war Soviet fashion.

Oksana Udovyk
PhD student in the Södertörns högskola, engaged in the project called RISKGOV. This project is dealing with environmental risks management in the Baltic Sea.

Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen & Tanya Jukkala
Illkka Henrik Mäkinen is professor of sociology at Södertörn University, director of the Stockholm Centre on Health of Societies in Transition (SCOHOST). Tanya Jukkala is doctoral student in sociology at Baltic and East European Graduate School (BGEES) Södertörn University.
Michael Bradshaw
Professor Human Geography, University of Leicester, UK.

MarieLouise Samuelsson
Freelance journalist currently focusing on research policy and research funding.

Peter Lodenius
Former editor-in-chief of the Swedish-language weekly magazine Ny Tid [New Times] (Helsinki).

Matti Peltonen
Professor of social history at the Department of Social Science History, University of Helsinki.

AnuMai Kõll
Is legally responsible for the publication Baltic Worlds. Professor in Baltic History, Culture and Society, and director of CBEES at Södertörn University.

Barbara Czarniawska
Holds a chair in management studies at GRI, School of Business, Economics and Law, at the University of Gothenburg.

Steve Sem-Sandberg
Author and critic. Has published a dozen novels, investigative stories, and collections of essays.

Vesa Oittinen
Professor of Russian philosophy and intellectual history at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki.

Rebecka Lettevall
Associate professor of the history of ideas at Södertörn University, Pro-vice chancellor of Södertörn University.

Torbjörn Nilsson
Associate professor of history, works at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University.

Anna Rotkirch
Associate professor of social policy and women’s studies at the University of Helsinki.

Arne Bengtsson
Foreign correspondent at the Swedish news agency Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå (TT), where he covers the Baltic countries.

Torbjörn Eng
Ph.D. in history, leads the international and multidisciplinary research program ”Nordiska rum” (Nordic Spaces) at CBEES (Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, at Södertörn University.

Anna Janowiak
Graduated in international relations at Adam Mickiewicz University of Pozna´n and is completing a Ph.D. in European Social History at Ca’Foscari University of Venice

Anders Björnsson
Editor-in-chief of BW. Visiting professor at Gothenburg University (School of Public Administration).

Per Högselius
Ph.D in innovation studies, researcher at the Department of History of Science and Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

Andrea Petö
Associate professor at the Department of Gender Studies at the Central European University, Budapest.

Antje Wischmann
Currently visiting professor in Scandinavian studies at the University of Tübingen, lecturer at the Department for Northern European Studies at the Humboldt University Berlin.

Jens E. Olesen
Professor of Scandinavian and Finnish history at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University in Greifswald.

Bernd Henningsen
Professor of Scandivian studies, director of the Department of Northern European Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Brian Manning Delaney
Translator Brian Manning Delaney has developed a Style Guide for Baltic Worlds, based on a modified version of the Chicago system.
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