Viktorya Sukovata
PhD and doctor habilitata in cultural theory, professor of theory of culture and philosophy in the Science Department, Kharkiv National […]
Florence Fröhlig, Anna Kharkina, Niklas Nilsson, . Ann-Judith Rabenschlag, Jaakko Turunen, Yuliya Yurchuk
Florence Fröhlig, Anna Kharkina, Niklas Nilsson, Ann-Judith Rabenschlag, Jaakko Turunen, Yuliya Yurchuk. Friends and part of the same PhD-group at BEEGS as Markus Huss.
Anastasiia Bozhenko and Olesya Chagovets
Anastasiia Bozhenko is senior teacher at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Department of Ukrainian Studies. Olesya Chagovets is an architect/conservator and a PhD student at the Department of Reconstruction, Restoration of Architectural Objects at the O. M. Beketov Kharkiv National University of Urban Economy.
Kateryna Botanova
A Basel-based cultural critic, curator, and writer from Kyiv, Ukraine.
Elmira Ablyalimova et al
Elmira Ablyalimova is a project coordinator of the Crimean Institute for Strategic Studies. Oleksamdr Symonenko, Dr. habil. is a Chief Research Fellow at the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Serhii Telizhenko, Dr., is a Scientific secretary of the Institute of Archaeology National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Denys Yashny, Dr., is a Chief Research Fellow at the Department of Art Heritage Studies, National Kiev-Pechersk Historical and Cultural Preserve Ukraine.
Hanna Kulahina-Stadnichenko and Liudmyla Fylypovych
Hanna Kulahina-Stadnichenko: PhD, Senior Researcher at the Department of Religious Studies of the G. S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv), and a Senior Researcher Fellow Sankt Ignatios College – University College in Stockholm. Liudmyla Fylypovych: PhD Philosophical Sciences, Professor and a Leading Scholar at the Department of Religious Studies of the G. S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv.
Alesia Rudnik and Malin Rönnblom
Alesia Rudnik is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at Karlstad University. Malin Rönnblom is a Professor of Political Science at Karlstad University.
Elżbieta Korolczuk et al
Elżbieta Korolczuk, Associate Professor at the School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University. Seinab Hilowle, Expert in sexual policymaking at the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (RFSU) Barbora Majdisova, Project Director at RFSL (Swedish Association for Sexual Equal Treatment) Ulrika Westerlund, Member of Parliament for the Green Party (MP).
Per Anders Rudling
Associate Professor, Department of History at Lund University and 2019–2024 Wallenberg Academy Fellow.
Anna Auzāne Paula Auzāne
Anna Auzāne is a PhD student in literature at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia. Paula Auzāne is a student at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia and a translator.
Lisa Källström and Jana Mikota
Lisa Källström: PhD, Researcher in the field of visual rhetoric at the Department of Culture and Education at Södertörn University and a Project Researcher funded by The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies. Jana Mikota: PhD, literature writer, and teacher at the University of Siegen and a Project Researcher in the fields of GDR literature, multilingualism, cultural ecology and poetry.
Yevhen Yashchuk
PhD student in History at the University of Oxford. He is interested in the imperial and postimperial past, with a research focus on the transimperial history, media history, and intellectual history of the second half of the nineteenth century and topics in contemporary memory politics. He is currently working on his dissertation on the Great Eastern Crisis’s appearance in the provincial cities of the Russian Empire and Austro-Hungary between 1875-1878. He is also a student coordinator and mentor at CEU Invisible University for Ukraine and a co-editor of the web journal Visible Ukraine.
Vladislav Staf
PhD student at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle & Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV).
Eugenia Seleznova
Doctoral Researcher at Central European University, Vienna. Eugenia studies the impact of the Russo-Ukrainian war on LGBTQ+ Ukrainians, with a focus on the spatiotemporal component of the war-inflicted injustices they are subjected to. Her research interests include queer migration, Eastern European coloniality, and queer (non)belonging.
Eva Ievgeniia Babenko
Is a Doctoral Researcher at Åbo Akademi University, Turku. Her research interests include mediation and reconciliation efforts with the long-term occupied territories of Donbas and the role of conflicting identities in overcoming the consequences of war. She is also researching Russian propaganda in Donbas and the post-colonial perspective of wars in former Soviet countries.
Liisamaija Hautsalo
Finnish Musicologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Sibelius Academy.
Gergely Fazekas
Musicologist and an Associate Professor at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music.
Iveri Kekenadze Gustafsson and Nana Sharikadze
Iveri Kekenadze Gustafsson is a classical pianist and incoming PhD researcher in European Studies at Lund University. Nana Sharikadze, Assoc.Prof; PhD, Caucasus University.
Cecila Ferm Almqvist and Kristi Kiilu
Cecila Ferm Almqvist is a Professor in Music Pedagogy at Södertörn University, and a visiting Professor in Education at Gothenburg University. Kristi Kiilu is a Professor and a head of Music Pedagogy and curriculum coordinator at Estonian Music and Theater Academy.
Samuli Korkalainen
Music researcher at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki and President of the Finnish Society for Hymnology and Liturgy, as well as pastor, church musician, and LGBTQIA+ activist.
Ann Werner
Senior Lecturer in Musicology and Associate professor in Gender Studies at Uppsala University.
Rüdiger Strempel
The Executive Secretary of HELCOM.
Monica Quirico
Affiliated scholar at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University, Stockholm.
Akvilė Giniotaitė
PhD student in Educational Studies at Vilnius University.
Ekaterina Kalinina et al
Ekaterina Kalinina is an Associate Professor at the Department for Media Studies at Stockholm University. Five anonymous Russian co-authors.
Oleksandra Keudel
Kyiv School of Economics, CBEES Fellow (August-December 2023).
Yuchen Li
Yuchen Li, a master’s student of Social Studies of Gender at Lund University, transcribed the recorded version of the roundtable.
Hansalbin Sältenberg et al
Hansalbin Sältenberg holds a PhD in Gender Studies, Södertörn University.
Marta Grzechnik
Assistant Professor at the Institute for Scandinavian and Finnish Studies, University of Gdańsk.
Lelde Luika
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Södertörn University.
Alar Kilp
Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia.
Galyna Kutsovska
PhD student at the Department of History at Uppsala University.
Stefan Jonsson
Professor in Ethnic Studies and Head of the Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) at Linköping University, Sweden.
Liubov Kuplevatska
Ukrainian scholar currently based at Lund University, the Center for Languages and Literature, via a grant for Ukrainian scholars from the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation. Associate Professor at the Kharkiv National University in Kharkiv, February 2022.
Alexandra Brankova
PhD candidate at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies & Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University.
Tatiana Sokolova, Oldouz Nejadibabadaei and Bartira Fortes
PhD-students in environmental studies.
Mladen Dolar
Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana. His principal areas of research are psychoanalysis, modern French philosophy, German idealism and art theory. He has lectured extensively in US and across Europe, and published widely in scholarly journals, collected volumes and books.
Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen
Professor in Political Aesthetics at the University of Copenhagen. Research focus on the politics and history of the avant-garde, the politics of contemporary art and the revolutionary tradition.
Rebecka Katz Thor
A writer and senior lecturer at REMESO Linköping University and in Aesthetics at Södertörn University. She is co-chair of Memory Studies Association Nordic and participating researcher in the project Distrusting Monuments – Art and the War in Former Yugoslavia. Her research focus is on cultural memory studies, contemporary art, monuments and museums in relation to difficult pasts.
Gal Kirn
Assistant Professor and Research Associate at the department of sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, and affiliated with Södertörn University, and part of the international research group Partisan Resistances, University of Grenoble. Research focuses: art, politics and memory in the period of the national liberation struggle and socialist Yugoslavia.
Cecilia Sjöholm
Professor of Aesthetics at Södertörn University and project leader of the research project Distrusting Monuments. Art and the war in Former Yugoslavia (funded by the Baltic and East European Studies Foundation). She studies the relation between art and politics in contemporary culture. She has published extensively on art, psychoanalysis and critical theory.
Thomas Borén
Professor of Geography Stockholm University. Chair of the Steering Committee of the Urban and Regional Planning Programme, Stockholm University. Founding Director of Stockholm University Higher Seminar in Urban and Regional Planning (SUHSIS).
Sune Bechmann Pedersen
Docent (Reader) in History and Senior Lecturer in Digital History at the Department of History, Stockholm University. He specialises in 20th century European history: the transnational history of media, memory, tourism, European integration, and the Cold War.
Kara D. Brown & Aimee Herring
Kara D. Brown: PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Education Foundations and Inquiry Program Department of Leadership, Learning Design and Inquiry at the University of South Carolina. Her research focuses on language policy, minority schooling and teacher migration and she has conducted studies in Estonia. Aimee Herring: PhD-student in Anthropology and Presidential Fellow at the University of South Carolina. Research focus on migration, language and belonging, and with a particular interest in Baltic Studies.
Maria Silina
PhD, is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of History of Art at UQAM, Montreal and a Visiting Fellow at CBEES, Södertörn University, Stockholm (2023). They participate in several research projects that address Communist culture and media, museum studies, and contemporary art activism.
Anastasiia Chupis
A PhD-student at Zaporizhzhia National University and a scholarship holder at Södertörn University. Research focus: war and peace studies, peacebuilding, reconciliation, and the involvement of vulnerable categories in this process. She has management experience from international technical assistance programs and NGO-projects in Ukraine.
Johanna Mannergren Selimovic
Associate Professor in Peace and Development Research, a Senior Lecturer and currently a Research Coordinator at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, CBEES, at Södertörn University. Her research concerns peace processes with a focus on the politics of memory, transitional justice, gender, and everyday peace.
Anna Schwenck, Aleksej Tikhonov, David-Emil Wickström
Anna Schwenck (Siegen University), Aleksej Tikhonov (UZH Zurich), David-Emil Wickström (Popakademie Baden-Württemberg)
Pēteris F Timofejevs and Louis John Wierenga
Pēteris F Timofejevs Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Umeå University. He has written on Europeanization of foreign aid policy in Central and Eastern Europe and European NGOs working with development cooperation. Currently, his research is focused on radical right parties in the Baltic Sea area, their positions in foreign and environmental policies and their youth organizations. Louis John Wierenga Lecturer in International Relations at the Baltic Defence College, PhD fellow at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu and Research fellow at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA). His research interests include populist radical right parties – specifically leadership and party structure, social media and discursive opportunity structures, youth organizations and transnational networks. Currently, Wirenga is part of a project entitled, “Making Tomorrow’s Leaders” which is a Swedish Research Council project analyzing youth organizations of far-right parties.
Marina Svensson
A Professor of Modern China and since 2016 the director of the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University and responsible for the PhD-programme. She conducts interdisciplinary research and focuses on a range of different topics related to contemporary Chinese society, such as: human rights, cultural heritage, journalism and media, China’s digital society, documentary film and photography and digital ethnography.
Oleg Antonov and Parviz Mullojonov
Oleg Antonov Visiting researcher at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Södertörn University. He holds a PhD in political science. Parviz Mullojonov Is a Political Scientist, Senior Adviser of the International Alert office in Tajikistan and former Chairman of the Board of the Tajik branch of the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation); one of the active country’s civil society activists since the middle of 90’s. Mullojanov is a former member of the Inter-Tajik Dialogue, a civic initiative during the civil war in Tajikistan and former member of the EUCAM (EU and Central Asia Monitoring) research group. He worked for various international agencies and organizations such as Human Rights Watch/Helsinki, UNCHR, UNDP and ADB. He received his PhD in Islamic studies at the University of Basel (Switzerland).
Edward Lemon
Research Assistant Professor at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, Washington DC. His research focuses are on the transnational dimensions of authoritarianism, including transnational repression and authoritarian regional organizations, with a focus on post-Soviet Central Asia, Russia, and China. He has also conducted research on security issues, including violent extremism and political violence. He has spent over three years conducting research in Tajikistan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan; he speaks Russian and Tajik.
Nurlan Aliyev
Holds a PhD in Philosophy and Security Studies. His research area is primarily focused on Russia’s foreign and security policy, the Arctic, post-Soviet countries, strategic studies, and asymmetric warfare. He is a lecturer at the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw. His book project is supported by the Visegrad Fund Scholarship for 2021–2023.
Oleg Antonov and Olena Podolian
Oleg Antonov Visiting researcher at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Södertörn University. He holds a PhD in political science. Olena Podolian Holds a PhD in Political Science and is a Postdoctoral Researcher at CBEES, Södertörn University. Her research interests are: Post- Soviet regime change, state identity, war, Ukraine.
Odeta Rudling
Is a project administrator at the Horizon project "Europast" at the University of Lund. I hold a doctoral degree (Dr. Phil) from university of Greifswald, Germany (2019), just finished my Post-doc position at the Department of History at Lund university (12/12 2021-30/06 2023) and started working as project administrator at East and Centraleuropean Studies (Öst och Centraleuropakunskap) in April (2023). I also currently teach contemporary history at the Department of History.
Ella Pertrini
PhD-Candidate in Sociology at the Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS) at CBEES, Södertörn University
Paul Tap
Research Assistant at the Department of International Studies and Contemporary History, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj. His research interests lie in direct democracy, political parties and surveillance.
Sylwia Koziel and Ylva Spånberger Weitz
Sylwia Koziel holds a PhD in Social Work, and is a Senior Lecturer at Södertörn University. Main research areas: Child welfare, participation and perspectve, and international social work. Ylva Spånberger Weitz holds a PhD in Social Work, and is a Senior Lecturer at Södertörn University. Her main research interests are school social work and young people's participation in welfare services.
Ines Soldwisch
Holds a PhD in History at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf. Research focus: History of Science, History of History and Cultural History.
Olga Bubich
Is a Belarusian freelance journalist, photographer and memory researcher temporary based in Berlin as an ICORN Fellow. She is the author of the photobook The Art of (Not) Forgetting (2022) dedicated to the elusive nature of memory and ways to resist it.
Annamaria Olsson
Founder of a NGO offering support and activities for refugees in Berlin. Essayist and human right activist.
Svitlana Odynets
Is a journalist and essayist and she holds a PhD in Ethnology. Currently a Project Researcher at the University of Gothenburg.
Alyona Hurkivska
PhD-Candidate in Political Science . at the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies and . a guest researcher at Södertörn University’s programme for scholars at risk.
Lisa Källström
Holds a PhD and is a researcher in the field of visual rhetoric at the Department of Culture and Education at Södertörn University. Currently working on the project “Pippi Beyond the Border” funded by The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies together with Ines Soldwisch, Heinrich Heine University.
Alexander Generalov
Russian lawyer with background in a range of charity and oppositional non-governmental organizations and currently is also an independent researcher of the Russian anti-war movement.
Inga Koroleva (pseudonym)
Russian civil right activist that for safety reasons wants to be anonymous.
Alexandra Talaver and Yulia Gradskova
Alexandra Talaver is a PhD-Candidate at the Department of Gender Studies, Central European University, Vienna. Yulia Gradskova is an Associate Professor in History and a Research Coordinator at CBEES, Södertörn University.
Elena Rodina
Holds a PhD from the Department of Media, Technology, and Society at Northwestern University. Her research examines the intersection of journalism and activism.
Hugo Faber et al
Hugo Faber, PhD-candidate in Political Science, The Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS), Södertörn University Florence Fröhlig, PhD and Director of Studies, The Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS), Södertörn University Viviane Griesinger, PhD-candidate in Environmental Studies, The Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS), Södertörn University Tatiana Sokolova, PhD-candidate in Environmental Studies, The Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS), Södertörn University Ksenia Zakharova, PhD-candidate in Environmental Studies, The Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS), Södertörn University
Zane Šime
Zane Šime is a Visiting Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS). She is also an Academic Assistant at the EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies Department on the Bruges campus of the College of Europe.
Paulina Rytkönen, Marcus Box, Tommy Larsson Segerlind. Youssouf Merouani
Paulina Rytkönen is Senior Lecturer in Business Studies and Associate Professor in Economic History at Södertörn University. Marcus Box is Senior Lecturer in Business Studies and Associate Professor in Economic History at Södertörn University. Tommy Larsson Segerlind is Senior Lecturer in Business Administration and Director of the bachelor program Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Market EnterForum, at School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University. Youssouf Merouani is a PhD-candidate in Economic History at Lund University.
Klaudia Kosicińska
Is a PhD-candidate in Anthropology at the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Achim Klüppelberg
PhD-candidate in History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
Yuliya Krylova-Grek
PhD and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
Emma Rönngren
PhD-candidate at IRES Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University.
Elena Palenova
Elena Palenova is a Russian journalist based in Stockholm, and a PhD student in Environmental Studies, Södertörn University.
Dragoș Șamșudean
Dragoș Șamșudean is a PhD-candidate at the Department of International Relations and Contemporary History, Babeș-Bolyai University in Romania.
Hans Gutbrod
Teaches at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Seton Hall University and regularly writes on issues of commemoration.
Albena Shkodrova
Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr-University of Bochum. She is the author of the monographs Communist Gourmet: The curious story of food in the People’s Republic of Bulgaria (CEU Press, 2021) and Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria (Bloomsbury, 2021) and of numerous academic and non-academic articles on the history of food, Cold war and gender in Bulgaria and South-Eastern Europe. She is a member of the editorial board of Food and History Journal, of the RG Modernity and Society 1800–2000 of KU Leuven and is a fellow of the Centre for Russian Studies at KU Leuven.
Ester Bardone and Anu Kannike
Ester Bardone is a Lecturer in Ethnology at the Institute of Cultural Research, University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research interests include rural tourism, small-scale rural entrepreneurship, heritage production in Estonia and changes in Estonian food culture. Anu Kannike is an Ethnologist and Senior researcher at the Estonian National Museum. She has worked at the University of Tartu, the University of London, Tallinn University before the Estonian National Museum. Anu Kannike is the co-author of the books 101 Estonian Foods (2016) and 100 Years of Estonian Life (2018). Has published on the history and modernity of Estonian everyday culture, especially on home culture and food culture, and museology.
Alexandra Biktimirova and Victoria Kravtsova
Alexandra Biktimirova is a student at the HSE University in Moscow and a feminist activist. Research interests center on the intersections of feminism and Islam in the Volga-Ural region in Russia, as well as globally. Coordinated the exhibition Feminist Translocalities in Kazan in 2020. Research interests are gender, muslim women, and relationships between discourses of power and marginality. Victoria Kravtsova is a Feminist researcher, NGO-worker and activist. Born in Smolensk, Russia. Initiated Feminist Translocalities – a queer feminist network between the former USSR, Germany, and sometimes other locales, as wel l as a platform for supporting projects - publications, exhibitions, seminars, podcasts etc. Research interests include the intersections of feminist, antiracist and decolonial struggles in the countries of the former USSR.
Vladyslav Yatsenko
PhD in Military History, M. S. Grushevsky Institute for the Study of Ukrainian Written Sources, The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Kharkov National University.
Viacheslav Kudlai
PhD in Social Communications, Associate Professor, Information Activity Department, Mariupol State University. Research focus on social network, youth, public opinion, information and communication technologies, information society.
Sergiy Kurbatov
PhD at Kyiv National Economic University & National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine. Former guest researcher at Uppsala Centre for Russian Studies, Uppsala University His academic interests include the process of internalization of contemporary universities, the problem of ranking of universities, influence of education on state policy and state-building in post-Soviet states, the processes of shaping elite, cross-ethnical relations and electoral behavior in Ukraine.
Aleksandra Reczuch
PhD-candidate in Ethnology at the Baltic and Eastern European Graduate School. Her research interests include populism, political anthropology, gender, and identity. She has conducted ethnographic research in Greece, Slovenia, Poland, and Ukraine, focusing on the role of identity and state policies. Currently, she is working on a thesis entitled: On possibilities of Left and Feminist Populism in the Postsocialist Context.
Roman Privalov
PhD-candidate in Political Science at BEEGS, Södertörn University. He writes on space policy and space imagination in Russia, on politics of post-Soviet space nostalgia and on critical issues of, as well as global prospects for international space exploration.
Andrej Kotljarchuk and Nikolay Zakharov
Andrej Kotljarchuk, PhD in History, Senior researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at Södertörn University. Nikolay Zakharov, PhD in Sociology, Senior lecturer at Södertörn University.
Dmytro Drozdovskyi
PhD and an Academic fellow of the Department of Foreign and Slavic Literatures at Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Scientist, literary critic, writer, editor, and translator. Since 2012, he has been working as managing editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian magazine of translations Vsesvit. Drozdovskyi is a member of the Supreme Council of the Writer’s Union of Ukraine.
Adrien Nonjon
PhD-candidate in History at the Research Center Europe(s) Eurasia at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, Paris. Research focus: the Ukrainian far right and the different political and cultural dynamics. His PhD-project is devoted to the concept of Intermarium in its different incarnations.
Victoria Vitanova-Kerber
PhD-candidate at the Institute for the Study of Religion, Universität Leipzig. Currently investigating the mechanisms of negotiating the relationship between religion and politics in late Socialist Bulgaria.
Anna Ozhiganova
PhD, Senior researcher at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Russian Academy of Sciences. She is a member of the Association of Medical Anthropologists (AMA). Her research interests concerns the intersections of religion, health and alternative social movements, as well as the teaching of religion in the post-secular societies.
Andreas Anton and Ina Schmied-Knittel
Andreas Anton is PhD in Social Sciences and researchers at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene, Freiburg, Germany. He focuses on occultism and parapsychologyical topics in the GDR and has a research interest in anomalistics and conspiracy theories. Ina Schmied-Knittel is PhD in Social Sciences and researchers at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene, Freiburg, Germany. Research focus is on the sociology of knowledge and religion; Specifically, she deals with social discourses and cultural patterns of interpretation of occult phenomena and extraordinary experiences such as near-death experiences.
Anna Tessmann
PhD in the Study of Religions and Postdoctoral researcher at Mainz University. Her research focus is in comparative study of religions; new religious movements; Soviet and post-Soviet esotericism and astrology; zoroastrianism; ancient and; contemporary Iranian religions, and didactics of Persian and Russian languages.
Olena Podolian and Sergiu Gherghina
Olena Podolian is Research Assistant at the CBEES, Södertörn University. PhD in Political Science. Her research interests embrace change of regime and nationalism in the formerly communist Europe. Sergiu Gherghina is Senior lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Glasgow. Research interests: party politics, political participation, legislative behaviour, direct democracy, and Central and Eastern European politics
Oscar Nygren
PhD-candidate in History at Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS) at Södertörn University. Researching the Swedish engagement in the Baltic region within the League of Nations in the interwar period.
Thomas Keating
Postdoctoral researcher at Tema Technology and Social Change at Linköping University. Investigates problems that arise in the relationship between man and technology such as how to preserve the memory of sites for final disposal of nuclear waste in Sweden in the distant future.
Klaus Richter
PhD in History and a Reader in Eastern European History at the University of Birmingham. He is also the Director of the Institute for German and European Studies (IGES). Research interest: the social history of Poland and the Baltics, Germany’s relations with Eastern Europe, and the history of nationalism and ethnic conflict.
Elin Viksten
Freelancing science journalist with an interest in nature conservation and environmental issues, especially biodiversity. Based in Stockholm.
Roman Balandiuk
Interdisciplinary researcher with a PhD degree from the Institute of Pedagogy of the National Academy of the Educational Sciences of Ukraine.
Maria Mårsell
Maria Mårsell is a PhD Student in comparative literature at Södertörn University. Her PhD project, with the working title Peace and Future. The Potential of Utopia in the writings of Frida Stéenhoff, Elin Wägner and Hagar Olsson, explores the utopian potential in peace as a literary theme.
Cecilia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
Cecilia Sá Cavalcante Schuback is a doctoral student in Aesthetics at BEEGS, Södertörn University.
Manne Wängborg
A Swedish diplomat and writer, former Consul General of Sweden in Kaliningrad, Russia, and Deputy Secretary-General of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission.
Anna Schwenck
Cultural sociologist in the Collaborative Research Center “Transformations of the Popular” at Siegen University. Her postdoc project deals with the nexus between popular music, populism and political violence in Germany and South Africa. Drawing on the results of her PhD, she is about to complete a book on Russia‘s flexible authoritarian regime and its legitimacy among promising youth from the provinces.
Samuel Faber
PhD-Candidate in History at Stockholm University. His research is focused on modern urban history and the neoliberalization of housing policies in Sweden and Denmark.
Anna Tarasenko and Meri Kulmala
Anna Tarasenko: Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg, Russia) and Visiting Researcher, at Aleksanteri Institute (University of Helsinki). Research interests: a regional dimension of social policy reforms in Russia, new public management reforms and non-profit sector development, outsourcing of social services. Meri Kulmala: Senior Researcher and Director of Helsinki Inequality Initiative at the University of Helsinki. Research interests: social in/justice, in/equality, a welfare state, social policy, child welfare, co-creative research methodologies.
Dan Karlholm
Professor in Art History at Södertörn University. His research interests include art historiography, political aesthetics and repercussions of the Anthropocene on the humanities.
Kristy Beers Fägersten, Leena Romu, Anna Nordenstam and Margareta Wallin Wictorin
Kristy Beers Fägersten: Professor of English Linguistics Head of English Department at Södertörn University. She is a member of the networks SwiSca (Swearing in Scandinavia) and NNCORE (Nordic Network for Comics Research). Anna Nordenstam: Professor History of Ideas, and Religion, Department of Literature, Gothenburg University. Current Project “Feminist Swedish Comics as Medium for Political Activism and Critique” (project leader), financed by the Swedish Research Council 2019–2022. Leena Romu: PhD-candidate in Translation and Literary Studies, School of Language, Tampere University. Margareta Wallin Wictorin: PhD in Art History and Visual Studies, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies , Karlstad University. Current research interest: popular prints and imagery, press images, book illustrations, comics and graphic novels, and contemporary art, often with educational, feminist and postcolonial perspectives.
Anna Grinberg
Hanken School of Economics. Student in the interdisciplinary Master’s School in Russian and East European Studies coordinated by the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki.
Augustė Nalivaikė
PhD-candidate and Lecturer at the Civil Society and Sustainability Research Group, Kaunas University of Technology.
Paulina Rytkönen
Associated Professor in Economic History and Senior Lecturer in Business Studies at Södertörn University. Her research focuses on a wide variety of historical and contemporary topics concerning global, national, and local food systems, rural entrepreneurship, innovations, self-employment and economic growth in rural areas.
Martina Urbinati
Holds a MA in social sciences at the University of Bologna and was a trainee at the Centre of East European and International Studies (ZOiS). Her main research interests include urban memory and conflicting interpretations of the historical past in Eastern Europe and the Baltic States.
Matthew Blackburn
Researcher at the Institute of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University. He completed his doctoral thesis on nationalist discourses and the imagined nation in Post-Soviet Russia at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on political legitimation, memory politics, nationalism and identity politics in the Post-Soviet space. His recent publications include ‘Mainstream Russian Nationalism and the “State-Civilization-Identity”’ (Nationalities papers) and ‘Political Legitimacy in Contemporary Russia’ (Russian Politics) (2020).
Yulia Gradskova and Martin Englund
Yulia Gradskova is Associate Professor at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University. Martin Englund is PhD-candidate in History at BEEGS, the Baltic and East European Graduate School at Södertörn University.
Sofia Beskow
Doctoral Student in Sociology at Baltic and East European Graduate School, Södertörn University. Research areas: Social movements, radical nationalism and repression.
Tatiana Sokolova, Wouter Blankestijn and Ksenia Zakharova
Tatiana Sokolova, Wouter Blankestijn and Ksenia Zakharova, PhD-candidates in Environmental Studies at the Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS) at Södertörn University.
Vasileios Kitsos
Doctoral student at the school of Social Sciences & the Center for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES).
Cagla Demirel and Martin Englund
Cagla Demirel is PhD-Candidate in Political Science at BEEGS, the Baltic and East European Graduate School at Södertörn University. Martin Englund is PhD-candidate in History at BEEGS, the Baltic and East European Graduate School at Södertörn University.
Simo Mannila
Simo Mannila is adjunct professor of sociology, University of Helsinki. Member of the Planning Group for Ukrainian studies, University of Helsinki.
Gunilla Gunner and Carola Nordbäck
Gunilla Gunner is an Associate Professor in Church History at Åbo Akademi University, and Senior Lecturer and Researcher at Södertörn University, the Department of the Study of Religions. Carola Nordbäck is an Associate Professor in Church History at Åbo Akademi University and Senior lecturer in History at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSV), Mid Sweden University.
Edward Kasinec and Nathaniel Knight
Edward Kasinec is a Research Associate, Harriman Institute, Columbia University and, since 2014 Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His career includes service as Reference Librarian/Archivist and Staff Advisor in Exhibitions in several prestigious institutions. Since 1969, Kasinec has published more than two hundred refereed articles and books. Nathaniel Knight is a Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Seton Hall University. Has published extensively on issues of ethnicity, race and the history of the human sciences in Imperial Russia.
Didar Kassymova and Elmira Teleuova
Didar Kassymova is an Assistant Professor at KIMEP University, in Almaty, Kazakhstan and author of Historical Dictionary of Kazakhstan. Elmira Teleuova is an Assistant Professor of al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan. Research interest: history of nomadic customary law.
Jörg Hackmann
Alfred Döblin Professor of East European History at the University of Szczecin, Poland and in 2020, a Visiting Scholar at CBEES, Södertörn University.
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
Professor of Eastern and Central European Studies at Lund University in Sweden. Her main research interests are nationalism, identity, collective memories and cultural heritage in Eastern and Central Europe. Currently she is member of the research project “Lessons from Communist and Nazi History” financed by Wallenberg Foundation.
Alexandra Allard
PhD student in Economics at Södertörn University, with affiliations to Örebro University as well as the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN). Her main academic interests are environmental economics, with a focus on marine environments, and behavioral economics.
Paulina Pukyté
Interdisciplinary artist, writer and curator based in London and Vilnius. She writes critical and satirical articles on art and cultural issues, as well as experimental literature, poetry and plays. She makes site-specific interventions, still and moving image and conceptual projects using found artefacts, questioning human perception, memory, habits and cliche.
Kati Roover
Multidisciplinary artist living and working in Helsinki. In her works she approaches environmental changes through poetic imagination, creating works that combine her research with a broad range of perspectives. She works with moving image, sound, photography, text and installations.
Giedre Jankeviciute
Senior research fellow at the Art History and Visual Culture Department of the Lithuanian Institute for Culture Research and she also teaches at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Her current field of interest lies in the artistic culture of occupied countries, which she explores by focusing on the situation of Lithuania in the middle of the 20th century.
Jan Miklas-Frankowski
Assistant professor at the Institute of Media, Journalism and Communication at the University of Gdansk. Focusing on; work of Czesław Miłosz; contemporary Polish reportage, particularly Polish-Jewish relations; and, memory of Polish Jews and the Holocaust.
Elisabeth Kovtiak
Belarusian researcher and curator, a PhD candidate at the Charles University, Prague. Academic interests include collective memory and its manifestations in art and in public space, the role of art in political activism, national identity in transitional post-socialist societies.
Annika Toots
PhD candidate at the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture of the Estonian Academy of Arts. Research interest: contemporary art that deals with the materialization of time and representations of the landscape, focusing mainly on photography.
Lia Dostlieva and Andrii Dostliev
Lia Dostlieva Ukrainian artist, essayist, cultural anthropologist and researcher at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Focusing on trauma, postmemory, commemorative practices, and agency and visibility of vulnerable groups and how to process “difficult knowledge” and “difficult past”. Andrii Dostliev Independent Ukrainian artist, curator, and photography researcher currently based in Poland. His primary areas of interest are memory, trauma, identity – both personal and collective, and various aspects of queerness. Works in various media.
Zuzanna Hertzberg
Interdisciplinary artist, artivist, andresearcher with a PhD degree from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Her art includes painting, performance, textiles, and collages using archival materials. She is interested in the search for identity in minority heritage, especially women’s.
Rasa Goštautaitė
PhD student at Faculty of History, Vilnius University. Her dissertation focuses on the contested nature of the Soviet-era heritage in Lithuania and other post-communist states,looking into the politics and management practices related to the legacy of this type.
Annagreta Dyring
Swedish writer and Honorary Doctor at Stockholm University.
Karin Winroth
Associate Professor in Business Studies, Södertörn University.
Alesia Rudnik
PhD-candidate in Political Science at Karlstad University, and a research fellow at the Belarusian think-tank in exile Center for New Ideas.
Michał Wawrzonek
Professor in the Institute of Political and Administrative Sciences, at Jesuit University in Cracow.
Alla Marachenko
PhD in Sociology, affiliated to the Graduate School for Social Research, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw). At the Center for Urban History, Lviv she works in a project on the multicultural heritage of the two Ukrainian cities of Uman and Lviv. She is in charge of the project’s sociological component, such as the research of awareness and request of the cities’ population on local history, on current intercultural stereotypes, and opportunities for improving interaction of residents with problematic monuments. Interests: comparative research, Jewish studies, memory studies, multicultural urban heritage.
Tymofii Brik
Assistant Professor of Policy Research, at Kyiv School of Economics.
Andriy Fert
PhD-candidate at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine with a focus on state-church relations.
Håkan Nilsson
Full Professor in Art History at Södertörn University.
Martin Englund
PhD-candidate in History at Baltic and East European Graduate School, Södertörn University.
Eva Schwarz
Phd in Philosophy and Director of the Centre for practical knowledge at Södertörn University.
Julian G. Waller
Julian G. Waller is a Ph.D Candidate at George Washington University and an Associate Research Analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses.
Sophia Nilsson
Communications Officer at Södertörn University with a focus on the area studies conducted at CBEES, and the University at large, on the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe.
Gorica Popovic
MA in Political science at the University of Vienna, with focus on International security and Eastern Europe; Research focus: Eastern Europe and Western Balkans, rise of authoritarianism, political participation and opposition in authoritarian regimes; Baltic security; nuclear non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament.
Maciej Sychowiec
Ph.D. student at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. In his PhD thesis, he deals with the variation in creditworthiness among advanced democracies. Other research interests include populism, quality of government, Central-Eastern Europe and the Baltic Sea countries.
Per A. Rudling & Erkki Tuomioja
Per A. Rudling, Associate Professor, Department of History, Lund University, and Research Associate, Center for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University. Erkki Tuomioja, Ph.D., Chairman, Historians Without Borders, Member of Parliament.
Leila Alieva
Affiliate of REES, Oxford School for Global and Area Studies (OSGA), previously Senior Common Room Member and Academic Visitor at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, with a PhD from Moscow University. Originally from Azerbaijan, she founded and directed two ”think-tanks” in Baku, and held fellowships at Harvard University, UC Berkeley, Kennan Institute (Washington, DC) the NATO Defence College (Rome), IFK (Institut Für Kulturwissenschaften) Vienna. Her research and publications cover Azerbaijan, the Caucasus, Russia, the broader Former Soviet Union; and range thematically from energy security and conflicts, to democracy in the oil rich states, as well as issues around integration into the EU (ENP and EaP) and NATO.
Anna-Maria Sörberg
Freelance writer based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Katarina Giritli-Nygren and Angelika Sjöstedt Landén
Katarina Giritli-Nygren is Professor in Sociology at Mid-Sweden University. Angelika Sjöstedt Landén is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at Mid Sweden University, Sweden.
Mercedes Barros and Natalia Martinez
Mercedes Barros is Researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, and at the Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Teaching at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Natalia Martínez is Assistant Researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and Assistant Professor in the area of Feminisms, Gender and Sexualities (FemGeS) at the María Saleme de Burnichón Research [Centre of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities (CIFFyH), National University of Córdoba.
Graciela Di Marco
Professor, PhD in Social Sciences and Director at the Centro de Estudios sobre Democratización y Derechos Humano, CEDEHU and Escuela de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de San Martín.
Paula Biglieri
Director of the Cátedra Libre Ernesto Laclau, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires.
Jenny Ingridsdotter
PhD in Ethnology, currently working at Umeå University with the project “Migration and Settler Colonialism: The Makings of Heritage among Swedish Descendants in Argentina”.
Ana Fiol
PhD in Social Sciences. Currently a lecturer at Facultad Lationoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. Journalist and a feminist activist.
Alev Özkazanç
Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies. Since June 2019 visiting scholar at Wolfson College, University of Oxford.
Anna Sedysheva
PhD-candidate at the Polish Academy of Sciences’ Graduate School for Social Research in Warsaw, Poland.
Erzsébet Barát
Associate Professor Director of TNT, Gender Studies Research Group Institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged.
Jenny Gunnarsson Payne
Full Professor in Ethnology at the department for Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University.
Edward Lemon and Oleg Antonov
Edward Lemon is DMGS-Kennan Institute Fellow at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School in Washington D.C. and a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center. Oleg Antonov is a visiting researcher at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Södertörn University.
Michaela Grančayová
PhD student at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2015, she graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava, where she studied English and Arabic. In her PhD thesis, she deals with the role of Egyptian women in the democratization processes within the Arab Spring. Among the topics of her interest is the Arab Spring, Arab feminism, Egypt, Arabic diglossia, modern trends in Islam, radicalism, populism, Islamophobia and Muslim women in European politics.
Witness Seminar
The Institute of Contemporary History (SHI) is a multidisciplinary research institute at Södertörn University conducting research in modern political history, particularly on the Nordic countries, Baltic Sea region and Eastern Europe. Founded in 1999, the SHI has a strong track record in securing source materials and initiating new areas for research through its well-known witness seminars, regularly published in the open access series "Issues in Contemporary History" (Samtidshistoriska frågor).
Linda Kaljundi and Kristina Jõekalda
Linda Kaljundi is Associate Professor of History and a Senior Researcher at Tallinn University. Kristina Joekalda is Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture, Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. Her research focuses on the history of art historiography and heritage preservation in the 19th and 20th century in the context of nationalism studies.
Camilla Larsson
PhD-candidate in Art History at the School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University. She is also a curator and writer.
Andrii Nekoliak
PhD-candidate at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia. He is working on a PhD project concerning memory politics and law in Poland, Ukraine, and Estonia.
László Mód
Assistant Professor, University of Szeged, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology.
Edita Štulcaitė
Currently working with her PhD project. She has a MA in Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Marburg and a BA in Political Science and European Ethnology from the University of Tübingen in Germany. Her work focuses on current developments in post-Soviet countries as well as contemporary social movements and activism.
Paul Sherfey and Jiří Woitsch
Paul Sherfey is PhD-candidate in ethnology at Södertörn University. His dissertation project Cultivating Revolutionary Subjectivities: Politics, Heritage and Desire explores informal activism, using the case of collective gardens as a transnational political practice. Jiří Woitsch is PhD in Ethnology and History. Director of the Institute of Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and also the editor-in-chief of the ethnological journal Český lid.
Ojars Eriks Kalnins
Member of the Latvian Parliament. Former Latvian Ambassador to the United States, and Director of the Latvian Institute. Previously an activist of the American Latvian Association and the World Association of Free Latvians.
Marie Láníková
PhD candidate in Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Masaryk University, Brno. Her research focuses on the relationship between women’s organizations and expertise under state socialism in Czechoslovakia.
Julia Malitska
Received her PhD in History in 2017 with the dissertation Negotiating Imperial Rule: Colonists and Marriage in the Nineteenth-Century Black Sea Steppe. PhD in History and a project researcher at Södertörn University, Sweden. She currently completes her project on the history of dietary reform and vegetarianism in the late Russian empire. Her current research interests include imperial, post-imperial and new imperial histories of Ukraine and Eastern Europe, as well as intertwined histories of science, politics, food and environment.
Mikhail Iampolski
Professor in Comparative Literature at New York University, and a specialist in aesthetics and philosophy, critical theory, art history and theory, film studies, culture theory and Russian cultural history.
Ove Bring
Professor emeritus in International Law at the Swedish Defense College. Previously worked as an expert and international law adviser at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Professor of International Law at Uppsala University and Stockholm University. Member of the Permanent Arbitration Court in The Hague since 1999.
Michela Romano
MA in Interdisciplinary research and studies on Eastern Europe, University of Bologna. Research focus: Russophone identities, Baltic cultures and minority issues.
Cagla Demirel
PhD-Candidate in Political Science at BEEGS, Södertörn University. Graduated in International Relations at Karadeniz Technical University in 2010. Her research interests are peace and conflict research, collective and competitive victimhood, identity politics, and reconciliation processes. She was also a PhD representative at Peace Research in Sweden (PRIS) from 2020 to 2022.
Emily Russell
Assistant researcher on the Consequences of Contention project, at the University of Michigan and has been affiliated at research centers in Reykjavik, Iceland and Delhi, India. A Beinecke Scholar and member of the national Dramatists Guild.
Iulia Demidenko
Historian and Art Historian, Deputy Director for Research of the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg.
Polina Barskova
Associate Professor of Russian literature, Hampshire College. Scholarly publications include articles on Nabokov, the Bakhtin brothers, early Soviet film, and the aestheticization of historical trauma. Current project: “The Ruin Screams: Poetics of the Spatial Representation During the Siege of Leningrad.”
Stefan Ingvarsson
He was cultural attaché in 2015 at the Swedish Embassy in Moscow. Various previous assignments as a writer, translator, moderator and also director of the Stockholm Literature Festival.
Dzmitry Pravatorau
Postgraduate student of International Relations at the University of Queensland, Australia. Area of interest is Baltic studies: in particular, geographic and geopolitical images of the Baltic States in the popular imagination in Russia.
Brendan Humphreys
PhD in Political Science and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute – Finnish Centre for Russian and East European Studies and the Helsinki Institute of Urban and Regional Studies (Urbaria).
Jaakko Turunen
PhD in Political Science, Södertörn University BEEGS/CBEES and Uppsala University, Dept. of Government.
Annika Öhrner
Assoclate Professor in Art History, and a faculty member of Södertörn University
Susanna Rabow-Edling
Associate Professor in Political Science and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, IRES.
Paulina Rytkönen and Nadir Kinossian
Paulina Rytkönen is Associate Professor at Södertörn University in Sweden and Nadir Kinossian is Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Germany.
Joakim Ekman
Full Professor in Political Science and a Project Researcher at CBEES, Södertörn University.
Annemari Andersén
Project leader of the EU Interreg Central Baltic-financed project Archipelago Business Development. Works at the Department for Research and Development at Yrkeshögskolan Novia in Turku, Finland. MA in business administration and 20 years of experience working as a consultant for industrial companies.
Susanna Lidström
Freelance writer based in Stockholm. Reports for various publications and takes great interest in the environments of the archipelago, where she also enjoys spending time for recreation.
Christian Widholm
Historian and lecturer in Tourism Studies at Södertörn University. Widholm has published several works on Swedish nationalism and the mass media. Some of his recent publications deal with how childhood memories influence heritage entrepreneurs and how nostalgia influences the world of sports.
Nadir Kinossian
Senior Researcher since 2015 at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig, Germany. He has worked in academia, consultancy, and municipal administration in Norway, Britain, and Russia. Research interests include urban governance, regional development, and cultural landscapes.
Paulina Rytkönen et al
Paulina Rytkönen is senior lecturer in business studies and associate professor in economic history at Södertörn University, Tommy Larsson Segerlind is senior lecturer in business administration and director of the bachelor program Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Market EnterForum, at School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University, Gustaf Onn is a Doctoral Student in Tourism Studies, School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies, Södertörn University, Lars Degerstedt is senior lecturer in Media Technology, School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies, Södertörn University, Mauri Kaipainen is professor emeritus of media technology at Södertörn University.
Håkan Tunón, Marie Kvarnström, Joakim Boström and Anna-Karin Utbult Almkvist
Håkan Tunón is a senior research officer at the Swedish Biodiversity Centre (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) with a focus on traditional knowledge and customary use of biological diversity.; Marie Kvarnström is a senior programme officer at the Swedish Biodiversity Centre with a focus on traditional knowledge and customary use of biological diversity.; Joakim Boström is an icebreaker deck officer and fisherman in Kalix Archipelago; Anna-Karin Utbult Almkvist is a farmer in Sankt Anna archipelago and convenor of archipelago farmers in the National Association for the Swedish Archipelago.
Peter Handberg
Swedish author and translator of numerous titles. His latest book was Världens yttersta platser – Judiska spår [The world’s outermost places – Jewish traces], 2019. In 2020 he was awarded Doblougska priset [Dobloug price] from the Swedish Academy.
Ayşe Gül Altınay
Ayşe Gül Altınay is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender). She received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology, with a Women’s Studies Certificate, from Duke University in 2001 and has served as Associate Editor of the European Journal of Women’s Studies (since 2009), Marie Jahoda Visiting Chair in International Gender Studies at Ruhr University-Bochum (2012), Visiting Faculty Fellow as part of the “Women Mobilizing Memory” Working Group at Columbia University Center for the Study of Social Difference (2014-2016) and Researcher in the CEU – Sabancı University Joint Academic Initiative on Gendered Memories of War and Political Violence (with Andrea Petö, 2011-2015). At Sabancı University, she has contributed to the development of the Cultural Studies BA and MA Programs, the Gender Studies PhD program, Gender Forum and SU Gender, as well as the Sexual Harassment Policy Statement and Committee. Altınay’s research and writing have focused on militarism, nationalism, violence, memory, gender, and sexuality. Among her books are The Myth of the Military-Nation: Militarism, Gender and Education(Palgrave Macmillan, 2004); Ebru: Reflections on Cultural Diversity in Turkey(Metis, 2007, with Attila Durak); Violence Against Women in Turkey: A Nationwide Survey(Punto, 2008, with Yeşim Arat); The Grandchildren: The Hidden Legacy of Lost Armenians in Turkey(Transaction, 2014, with Fethiye Çetin, trans. Maureen Freely), Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories: Feminist Conversations on War, Genocide and Political Violence (Routledge, 2016, with Andrea Petö), and and the forthcoming volume Women Mobilizing Memory (Columbia University Press, 2019, co-edited with Maria Jose Contreras, Marianne Hirsch, Jean Howard, Banu Karaca and Alisa Solomon). Her co-authored book with Yeşim Arat, Türkiye’de Kadına Yönelik Şiddet(Violence Against Women in Turkey) was awarded the 2008 PEN Duygu Asena Award.
Aliaksei Kazharski
Aliaksei Kazharski is a researcher and lecturer at Comenius University in Bratislava and Charles University in Prague.
Réka Geambașu
Senior lecturer at Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, with a focus on the issues of gender and work, and on gender inequalities.
Clas Zilliacus
Professor emeritus of comparative literature, at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.
Piret Ehin
Piret Ehin is Senior Researcher and Deputy Director for Research at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia. She is also the founding Director of the Centre for EU-Russia Studies at the same institution. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Arizona (2002). Her main research interests include democracy, legitimacy and political support, European integration and Europeanization, and international relations in the Baltic Sea region. Her work has appeared in the European Journal of Political Research, Journal of Common Market Studies, Cooperation and Conflict, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties and the Journal of Baltic Studies. She has led international consortium projects, including a Horizon 2020 Twinning project UPTAKE.
Kamil Calus
Graduate of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Eastern Europe and Asia Studies and Journalism and Social Communication). PhD candidate in the Institute of Eastern Studies of Adam Mickiewicz University. Regular contributor to the Nowa Europa Wschodnia bimonthly. Editor of the "Spojrzenie na Wschód" quarterly. Focus on; Domestic, foreign and security policy of Moldova, as well as, Moldovan economic and energy policy, investment climate.
Bjarne Lindström
Independent consultant and former director of Statistics and Research Åland (ÅSUB) and the Nordic Institute of Regional Research (NordREFO). His research focuses on economic and regional development, region building, and regional autonomy.
Paul Sherfey
PhD candidate in ethnology at Södertörn University. His dissertation project Cultivating Revolutionary Subjectivities: Politics, Heritage and Desire explores informal activism, using the case of collective gardens as a transnational political practice.
Anna Hedén and Thomas Lundén
Anne Hedén is historian and journalist, focusing on political and social movements and currently affiliated to Arbetarrörelsens arkiv [Swedish Labour Movement’s Archive and Library] and Stockholm University. Thomas Lundén is Professor emeritus of human geography, CBEES, Södertörn University, with a focus on border studies and minorities.
Taras Martynenko
PhD candidate in history at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. His thesis focuses on the social behavior of the population of Lviv during World War II. Focus on genocide studies, local history and public memory.
Liudmila Voronova and Emil Edenborg
Liudmila Voronova, PhD, is a senior lecturer at the Department of Journalism, Södertörn University. Her research interests lie within the intersection of gender media studies, political communication research, and comparative studies of journalism cultures. Emil Edenborg, PhD, is a research fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. His research interests include questions of gender and sexuality, as well as nationalism, borders and geopolitics.
Agnieszka Halemba and Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz
Agnieszka Halemba, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw.
Vello Pettai
Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Tartu and Director of the V-Dem Regional Center for Eastern Europe and Russia.
Caroline Mezger
Researcher at the Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien, Institut für Zeitgeschichte - München, and former CEU student.
Oleg Antonov and Artem Galushko
Oleg Antonov is a visiting researcher at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Södertörn University. Artem Galushko is a researcher at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Södertörn University, funded by a Swedish Institute scholarship.
Derya Keskin
Derya Keskin received her PhD in Development Studies from Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey, and an MA from the Ohio State University in Columbus, USA. She worked as an assistant professor of Labor Sociology in the Department of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations at Kocaeli University, Turkey from January 2012 to September 2016. She was dismissed from her position through a governmental decree issued under the State of Emergency for signing a petition titled “We will not be a party to this crime,” also known as the Peace Petition which was a call directed to the State to end the civil deaths in the southeastern part of the country and to restart the peace process. Her work has been published in journals related to education, labor and the Middle East. Her research interests include women’s labor, gender and social policy, religion and women, migration, higher educa-tion, academic work and problems in social research. She continues her work within the Kocaeli Acade-my for Solidarity as the founding member with the other Peace Signatories also dismissed from Kocaeli University for the same reason.
Yasemin Gülsüm Acar
Social psychologist whose research interests include political protest and its consequences, political solidarity, politicization and social identity, and intergroup relations/conflict. She received her PhD from Claremont Graduate University in 2015, where she specialized in social identity and identity politicization through collective action. Her current research focuses on group-based perceptions of contemporary political dynamics in Turkey.
Radoš Vidaković
MA-student in political science at the University of Vienna.
Hans Gunnar Adén
Sweden’s ambassador to Georgia 2006 – 2009.
Julieta Rotaru
Senior researcher in Romani Studies at CBEES, Södertörn University. Project researcher (2018–2021) in “Mapping the Roma communities in the 19th century Wallachia”, funded by the Foundation for Baltic And East European Studies. PhD in philology with a focus on Vedic and Sanskrit languages, Romani linguistics and the history of the Roma people.
Tomas Sniegon
Historian and senior lecturer in European Studies at the University of Lund, Sweden. Currently working on a project about Soviet dictatorship, financed by The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences.
Marina Henrikson
PhD in Russian Studies from the University of Manchester, UK. Currently a freelance journalist with a focus on questions concerning human rights and the foreign policies of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
Kimmo Granqvist
Professor in Romani Studies at CBEES, Södertörn University, and lecturer in Romani language and Culture at the University of Helsinki. He has twenty years of experience in theoretical and participatory research with Roma communities. Since 2018 he is the editor of the Romani Studies journal.
Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov
Elena Marushiakova is a holder of ERC Advanced Grant 2015, “Roma Civic Emancipation Between the Two World Wars”, and President of the Gypsy Lore Society. She is affiliated to the School of History at the University of St. Andrews. She has published widely on Roma in Bulgaria, Balkans and Central and Eastern Europe. Vesselin Popov works at the School of History at the University of St. Andrews. Conducts research in frames of ERC Advanced Grant 2015, “Roma Civic Emancipation Between the Two World Wars”. Has published widely on Roma in Bulgaria, Balkans and Central and Eastern Europe.
Sofiya Zahova
Postdoctoral researcher at the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Language, University of Iceland. Focuses on the field of Romani Studies and South Eastern European history.
Sławomir Kapralski and Paweł Lechowski
Slawomir Kapralski is professor of sociology at the Pedagogical University of Kraków and a lecturer at the Centre for Social Studies in Warsaw. Paweł Lechowski is ethnographer with a focus on Roma communities.
Lynette Šikić-Mićanović
Senior research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar in Zagreb, Croatia. PhD in anthropology with a focus on gender and social inequality. She conducts qualitative research work with marginalized groups.
Viorel Achim
Senior researcher at the Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Romanian Academy, Bucharest. His research fields include the history of the Gypsies (Roma), ethnic minorities in Romania between 1918-1948, population policy in Romania during WW II, and the Holocaust.
Maryia Rohava
Maryia Rohava is a PhD-candidate at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo in Norway. Her PhD-project concerns "Political Rituals under Autocratic Rule in Belarus, 1995-2015: Symbols, Performances and Popular Beliefs". Maryia Rohava has a background in Political Science (B.A.), and completed her research Master’s degree in European Studies at Maastricht University with the financial support of the Open Society Foundations. Before joining University of Oslo, she worked as a research assistant on EU multilevel governance at the European Institute of Public Administration in Barcelona. She gained experience in civil society empowerment and civil rights advocacy at the Eastern Europe Studies Centre in Lithuania and through participation in international election observation missions in Belarus, Georgia and Lithuania.
Anders Björklund
Former professor of ethnology and director of the Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm. Research focus on museum practices and the acquisition, preservation and repatriation of material culture.
Johan Hegardt
Associate Professor in Archaeology, Uppsala University, works in the fields of art history, archaeology, museums and heritage studies, and cultural studies. Currently, Hegardt is associated with the Department of Culture and Learning, Södertörn University, Sweden.
Mechella Yezernitskaya
PhD candidate in history of art at Bryn Mawr College, US.
Edward Kasinec
Research associate at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University. Visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. Has published more than 200 refereed articles and books.
Arnoldas Stramskas
PhD candidate at the Department of Philosophy and Social Critique, Vyautas Magnus University, Lithuania. Focus on contemporary political philosophy with an emphasis on micropolitics and minor spaces.
Agneiszka Kozik
PhD candidate, Institute of Applied Social Sciences, Warsaw University. Main areas of research: social and visual anthropology, ethnography, art critique.
Gilda Hoxha
PhD in political science, University of Tirana. Research interest in social movements and democratic dialogues.
Levke Aduda and Stefan Ewert
Levke Aduda is PhD and research assistant at the University of Greifswald. Research focus: mediation in intrastate conflicts. Training to become a certified mediator. Stefan Ewert is PhD and researcher at the University of Greifswald. Focus on Baltic Sea regional policy and rural development policy. In his PhD, he analyzed higher education policy in the Baltic States and academic networks.
Zuzana Maďarová
PhD, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava. Focus on political subjectivities of women and gender aspects of political communication. Her thesis analyzed the invisibilization of women and competing narratives of November 1989. Expert at the European Institute for Gender Equality in 2017.
Olesya Khromeychuk
A Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of East Anglia. Her current research focuses on the participation of women in military formations during WWII and in the ongoing conflict in the Donbas region.
Agnieszka Mrozik
Assistant professor since 2012 at the Postgraduate Gender Studies Programme at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where she has lectured on feminist criticism, media discourse, and popular culture analysis.
Simo Mannila and Natalia Kharchenko
Simo Mannila is adjunct professor of sociology, University of Helsinki. Member of the Planning Group for Ukrainian studies, University of Helsinki. Natalia Kharchenko is executive director of the Kyiv International Institute for Sociology. Conducts quantitative social research.
Eva Karlberg
PhD candidate in sociology at Baltic and East European Graduate School, Södertörn University. She studies transnational organizing in the women’s movement, comparing Poland and Sweden.
Nadja Douglas
Is a researcher at the Berlin-based Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS). She focuses in her work on the dynamics between civic initiatives and state power structures, regional conflicts and civil-military relations in the post-Soviet region. She holds a Master's degree in International Relations from Sciences Po Paris and a PhD from Humboldt University Berlin. Her thesis deals with public control of armed forces in the Russian Federation and was published in 2017 by Palgrave Macmillan.
Aksana Ismailbekova
Aksana Ismailbekova is a lead researcher for Kyrgyzstan in the project “Informal Governance and Corruption –Transcending the Principal Agent and Collective Action Paradigms”, funded by the British Academy (BA) – DFID Anti-Corruption Evidence Program (ACE) and led by the Basel Institute on Governance (2016-2017). Ismailbekova was research fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) (Center for the Modern Orient) in Berlin (2011-2015), where she was a member of the competence network “Crossroads Asia.” She conducted her doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany (2006-2012).
Tom Junes
Tom Junes is a historian and holds a Ph.D. from the KU Leuven (Belgium). He is a member of the Human and Social Studies Foundation in Sofia and currently a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. As a postdoctoral researcher he has held fellowships in Warsaw, Vienna, Budapest, Helsinki, Potsdam, Jena and Sofia. His research interests cover Eastern European history, Cold War history, and the history of youth and student movements. He is the author of Student Politics in Communist Poland: Generations of Consent and Dissent.
Irina Seits
PhD candidate in aesthetics at Södertörn University. MAs in history and fine arts. Research interests: history of modernist architecture of the 1920s and formation of the contemporary living space.
Robert Bird
Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. Primary area of interest is the aesthetic practice and theory of Russian/Soviet modernism. He has published books on Viacheslav Ivanov and Andrei Tarkovsky, as well as essays on Russian film and video art.
Mikhail Evsevyev
PhD in art history from St. Petersburg State University, where he has lectured for over 40 years at the departments of the History of Fine Arts and the History of Russian Art, docent. His academic interests are connected to the written sources on the art of the first quarter of the 19th century as well as to the history of arts during the era of the 1917 Russian Revolution and the “war communism” period.
Rosario Napolitano
PhD candidate in international studies at University of Naples “l’Orientale” with the project “Soviet in the Baltic States: from Daniel-Sinyavsky’s trial until the dissolution of the USSR”.
Jussi Lassila
Senior research fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. His core areas of expertise are Russian domestic politics, in particular identity politics, nationalism, populism and political communication.
Sabine Hark
Professor of gender studies at Technische Universität Berlin. Member of the editorial board of the journal Feministische Studien. Interest in gender research as a critical ontology of the present, gender-sensitive science sociology and university research, feminist knowledge production, and queer theory.
Riikka Palonkorpi
She recieved her PhD in history at the University of Tampere in 2012. Her thesis is entitled ”Science with the Human Face: The Activity of the Czechoslovak Scientists Franticek Corm and Otto Wichterle during the Cold War”. Her publications include: Palonkorpi, Riikka, Věda s lidskou tváří: Činnost československých vědců Františka Šorma a Otty Wichterleho během studené války. Nakladatelstvi Akademia 2017; Palonkorpi, Riikka, Mole holes in the Iron Curtain: the success story of the Krtek animated films. In: Competition in Socialist Society. Miklossy, K. & Ilic, M. (eds.). New York: Routledge 2014;Nisonen-Trnka, Riikka, The Prague Spring of Science: Czechoslovak Natural Scientists Reconsidering the Iron Curtain. In: 1948 and 1968: dramatic milestones in Czech and Slovak history. Cashman, Laura (ed.). Routledge 2009. Palonkorpi is currently working as a senior advisor at the University of Helsinki.
Maxim Grigoriev
Born in Moscow and raised in Stockholm. He has studied comparative literature at Södertörn University and worked as a translator of Russian literature and as a freelance critic and novelist. His prize-winning collection of short stories Städer [Cities] appeared in 2014.
Viktoriya Sukovata
PhD and doctor habilitata in cultural theory, professor of theory of culture and philosophy in the Science Department, Kharkiv National Karazin University, Ukraine. Focus: visual arts and gender studies, the Cold War, Soviet and post-Soviet cultural studies.
Rene Mäe
Currently completing his PhD in sociology at Tallinn University. Visiting PhD student at the University of Tartu and Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. He has taught courses on cultural sociology and sociological research methods at Tallinn University and the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Paromita Chakrabarti
Associate professor of English and Director of Global Research Initiatives at H R. College, University of Mumbai. Her research areas include diasporas, Marxist cultural studies and postcolonial studies, gender, ethnicity, and race.
Per-Arne Bodin
Professor of Slavic literatures at Stockholm University. His main research interests are Russian poetry, Russian cultural history (especially the importance of the Russian Orthodox tradition) and Polish literature after the Second World War.
Tihomir Topuzovski
Tihomir Topuzovski received his doctoral degree from the University of Birmingham UK and was a guest researcher at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University. He is currently collaborating on research looking at the politicization of space and artistic practices displaying a new understanding of temporary urbanism.
Rajni Mujral
Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Thapar University, Patiala, India. She has published on Salman Rushdie, Meena Alexander, and in the fields of the carnival, the grotesque, and disability.
Vahagn Avedian
Vahagn Avedian has a Ph.D. in history, specializing in research concerning the fields of genocide, human rights, peace and conflict and democracy.
Donnacha Ó Beacháin Abel Polese,
Donnacha Ó Beacháin is Director of Research at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University and Abel Polese is a Research Fellow at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University.
Tora Lane
Project researcher at Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) and the Department of PhD in Russian Literature, Associate Professor and a Senior Lecture at the Department for Slavic Studies at Stockholm University, and a project leader of Writing and Thinking at the Margins at CBEES, Södertörn University (funded by the Baltic and East European Studies Foundation).
Johannes Heuman
Researcher at the Hugo Valentin Centre in Uppsala and the Centre Alberto Benveniste in Paris. Currently works on a project on Jewish-Muslim relations during the postwar era in France.
Weronika Grzebalska
is a sociologist and independent analyst whose work focuses on militarism, security, right-wing politics, and gender in Central Europe. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the Polish Academy of Sciences where her dissertation explored the post-1989 paramilitary organizing in Poland. Currently, she is a Rethink.CEE Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, working on the gendered implications of changing national defense policy and civil-military relations in post-2014 Central Europe. She also lectures on military issues at the American Studies Center and the Gender Studies program in Warsaw. In the past, she was a fellow at the Trajectories of Change Program of the ZEIT-Stiftung, a Kosciuszko Foundation fellow at Clark University (United States), member of the FEPS Young Academics Network, and a president of the Polish Gender Studies Association.
Charlotte Bydler and Dan Karlholm
Charlotte Bydler, Lecturer in art history at the School of Culture and Education at Södertörn University. Research interests comprise injustice, violence and political subjects. Project leader of “A New Region of the World? Towards a Poetics of Situatedness”. Dan Karlholm, Professor of art history, Södertörn University, where he co-founded the Art History Department in 2003. Research interests: historiography, including the history and theory of art history in Sweden and Germany.
Epp Lankots
Architectural historian and researcher at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Institute of Art History. Research interests include material culture and architecture in Estonia during the Soviet period.
Susanna Witt
Senior lecturer in Russian literature at the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages, Finnish, Dutch and German at Stockholm University, and affiliated researcher at Upp-sala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Specialist in Boris Pasternak’s poetry and prose.
Aleksei Semenenko
Associate professor at the Slavic Department of Stockholm University. PhD in Russian Literature from Stockholm University. Author of several books and works on translation, literature and semiotics.
Karin Grelz
Researcher at the Institution for Slavic Languages at Stockholm University. Research interests: the Russian poet Marina Tsvetajeva and Lidija Ginzburg.
Sven-Olov Wallenstein
Professor of philosophy at Södertörn University. Translator of works by, among others, Baumgarten, Winckelmann, Lessing, Kant, and Hegel. Author of numerous books.
Alexandra Dmitrieva and Zhanna Kravchenko
Alexandra Dmitrieva, PhD in sociology, currently working as an expert for several grassroots NGOs specializing in groundwork with drug. Previously a researcher at the Department of Sociology, St. Petersburg State University. Zhanna Kravchenko, Associate professor in sociology and senior lecturer in social work at the School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University. Research focus: public policies in Russia and Sweden.
Irina Seits and Ekaterina Kalinina
Irina Seits is PhD-candidate at Södertörn University. MAs in history and fine arts. Research interests: history of modernist architecture of the 1920s and formation of the contemporary living space. Ekaterina Kalinina is Postdoctoral researcher at Department of Art and Cultural Studies at Copenhagen University, Denmark and project manager at the Swedish organization Nordkonst. Research focus: Russian patriotism, biopolitics, nostalgia and national identity.
Stephan Collishaw
Author, selected as one of the British Council’s 20 best young British novelists in 2004. Has published the novels The Last Girl (2003), Amber (2014) and The Song of the Stork (2016).
Maksym Kyiak
PhD, worked at various academic and governmental institutions in Ukraine and abroad. After becoming a PhD, became involved in public diplomacy and science. Has represented Ukraine at the CAHROM Committee in the Council of Europe. Is the Co-Founder of the Global Ukraine INGO, a world-wide network of global leaders. He is also working now on postdoctoral research on information society and its influence on religion.
Maili Vilson
PhD fellow in Political Science at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies and at the Centre for EU-Russia Studies (CEURUS), University of Tartu, Estonia. Her main research interests include the European Neighborhood Policy, EU foreign policy, democratization, and transition studies. She has published on the Europeanization of foreign policy of EU member states and on the Eastern Partnership.
Mark Brody
Mark Brody is an independent researcher, working for various EU-related think tanks. He graduated in International Relations and has worked as a journalist, photographer and researcher.
Per Ekman
Per Ekman is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Uppsala University. He studies political autonomy in Georgia and Ukraine, and has previously worked in Georgia.
Anna Krakus
Assistant professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She specializes in the fields of Polish cinema and literature, and in the study of Polish secret police files from the socialist period.
Antony Kalashnikov
PhD candidate in History at the University of Oxford. His current project, “Stalinist Self-Representation and the Politics of Future Memory”, explores the self-representations of officials and events in the Stalin era.
Marina Khmelnitskaya
Post-doctoral researcher at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies “Choices of Russian Modernisation”. Her research interests include Russian politics and policy-making, experts, policy ideas, historical institutionalism, and housing policy.
Dragana Cvetanovic
PhD candidate in sociolinguistics at the Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies and the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki. Her doctoral thesis concerns language, identity, and performance in Finnish and Serbian rap lyrics.
Francisco Martínez
PhD in Anthropology, currently teaching at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Awarded several scholarships in various countries. He has edited three books, curated three exhibitions, and worked as a correspondent in Russia, Germany, Turkey, and Portugal.
Dmitry V. Dubrovskiy
Associated Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow since 2008, but was declined to renew the contract February 25, 2022, apparently on political grounds, as he is seen as a “foreign agent”. An expert on human rights in Russia, he has focused on issues relating to xenophobia, ultra-right nationalism, hate crimes, and hate speech as they relate to freedom of conscience and freedom of speech.
Ausra Padskocimaite
PhD candidate in Public International Law at the Faculty of Law and the Uppsala Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS), at Uppsala University.
Ulyana Kaposhka and Sofie Bedford
Sofie Bedford has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stockholm University. Currently she is a researcher at Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University (UCRS) and affiliated with the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. Her main ongoing project focuses on the concept of ‘opposition’ in electoral authoritarian states. Sofie is a part of Baltic Worlds Scientific Advisory Council and she is the contact person for the online election coverage. Ulyana Kaposhka holds a Master of Science in International and European Relations from Linköping University, Sweden. Her main research interests include societal and political development in the post-Soviet countries, specifically Belarus and Russia, as well as conflict dynamics in the South Caucasus. Ulyana is currently an intern at Uppsala Centre for Russian and European Studies, Uppsala University, where she works with Dr. Sofie Bedford within the project ‘Building Sustainable Opposition in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes’ (2015-2017).
Mark Gamsa
Associate professor at Tel Aviv University, where he teaches at the Department of East Asian Studies and is also involved in the Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies.
Agnes Gagyi
A social movement researcher, working on Eastern European movements from a global historical perspective. She is member of the Budapest-based public sociology working group “Helyzet”.
Jolanta Aidukaite
Senior research fellow at the Lithuanian Social Research Centre. She holds a doctoral degree from Stockholm University, and has published extensively on the topics of social policy and urban community mobilization.
Tatiana Golova
PhD in sociology from the University of Magdeburg, Germany. She works on social movements, political radicalism, and cultural sociology. Among her publications is Hate Crime in Russia (2010).
Dominika V. Polanska and Grzegorz Piotrowski
Dominika V. Polanska, associate professor of sociology at Södertörn University and researcher at the Centre for Urban Studies at Uppsala University; Grzegorz Piotrowski, guest researcher at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University.
Michaela Pixova and Arnost Novak
Michaela Pixová, PhD, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague and Arnošt Novák, PhD, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague
Mats Lindqvist
Professor of ethnology, Södertörn University. He studies individual and everyday cultural processes and practices related to fundamental social change. He focuses on working class identity, the culture of market economy, and nationalism.
David J. Trimbach
Currently completing his PhD in Geography at the University of Kansas (USA). His research focuses on citizenship (in theory and practice), migration, borders, and political power.
Paul Oliver Stocker
PhD at Teesside University’s Centre for fascist, anti-fascist, and post-fascist studies. His research relates to the British radical right and fascist conceptions of empire. He also has a focus on the legacy of fascism and the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.
Magnus Berencreutz
Phil. licentiate in human geography at Stockholm University. His main fields of research are early modern landscape history, political geography, economic geography and economic archeology.
Jessica Giandomenico
PhD in political science at Uppsala Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Her research interests focus on the Western Balkans, EU foreign policy, power theory, elections, and social transformation.
Lena Lennerhed
Professor in History of Ideas at Södertörn university. She has written books and articles about the history of sexuality and history of abortion. Her book on illegal abortions in Sweden, Historier om ett brott, was published in 2008. Her ongoing research is about abortion and psychiatry in Sweden 1938-1975.
Elzbieta Korolczuk
Is a sociologist, an activist and commentator, working at Södertörn University, Sweden, and teaching at the Institute for Advanced Study, Political Critique in Warsaw. She has published on social movements, civil society and gender (especially motherhing/fatherhing and assisted reproductive technologies). Between 2001-2014 she was a member of Warsaw based informal feminist group Women’s 8 of March Alliance. She is also engaged in the activities of the Association “For Our Children” fighting for the changes in the Polish child support system and serves as a board member of “Akcja Demokracja” Foundation.
Michal Smrek
Doctoral candidate in Political Science at Uppsala University. He is currently also pursuing Master studies in Statistics. His research interests lie within the field of political recruitment
Roland Kostić
PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University, Sweden. He is currently employed as a Research Director for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University.
Faradj Koliev
Faradj Koliev is a PhD Candidate in political science at Stockholm University. His primary research interests are global governance, international political cooperation, international organizations, and the use of social sanctions in world politics.
Patrice Poutrus
Lise Meitner senior fellow at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. His research focus is on migration and media representation.
Deborah Paci
PhD in history, researcher at the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies at Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, with interests in cultural studies and island studies.
Irina Korgun
HK research professor at Asia-Pacific Research Center at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea.
Maria Chernova and Alexander Abramov and Alexander Radygin
Alexander Radygin, Director at the Institute of Applied Economic Research, the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), Moscow. He is also head of the Research Department and a board member at the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, Moscow. Alexander Abramov, Professor at the Institute of Applied Economic Research, RANEPA. His main research interests span over the development of financial markets in Russia, with a special focus on institutional investors including pension and mutual funds. Maria Chernova, Researcher at the Laboratory of Institutions and Financial Markets Analysis at the Institute of Applied Economic Research, RANEPA. Financial markets and financial risk management are her main research filed.
Mi Lennhag
PhD candidate in political science at Lund University. Her PhD project examines corruption in post-Soviet states and includes extensive fieldwork and interviews with ordinary citizens. She is also a journalist and photographer, focusing on Eastern Europe.
Susanne Oxenstierna
Holds a doctorate in economics and works as a deputy research director at the Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI. She is a specialist on the Russian economy.
Olga Golubeva
PhD, Senior Lecturer, Department of Business Administration, Södertörn University. For 18 years, she has been working in the financial sector including Vostok Nafta, Calyon bank and Swedbank. Dr. Golubeva’s research interests include foreign investment decision-making, valuation of companies, financial and banking systems.
Leo Granberg and Ann-Mari Sätre
Leo Granberg, Scholar at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, and visiting researcher in Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University. Ann-Mari Sätre, Associate professor in Economics and senior lecturer/researcher at Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, and International partner at the Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki.
Anton Oleinik
Professor of sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland (St. John's, Canada) and leading research fellow at the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia).
Ildikó Asztalos Morell
Associate professor in sociology at Mälardalen University and is currently affiliated with the Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies as senior research fellow. Her current research explores processes of marginalization in rural Hungary from an intersectional perspective.
Don Kalb
Professor of sociology and social anthropology at the Central European University, Budapest, and senior researcher at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He was a distinguished visiting professor at the Advanced Research Collaborative at CUNY/Graduate Center, New York, in 2014/15.
Piotr Piotrowski
The Polish art historian, critic, and curator Piotr Piotrowski passed away May 2015. He was the chair of the Modern Art History Department at Adam Mickiewicz University, in Poznań, where he was also the director of the Institute of Art History from 1999 to 2008.
Renata Ingbrant
PhD in Slavic languages and literature and associate senior lecturer at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stockholm University. Her research interests include feminist, gender and masculinity studies; contemporary Polish literature and women’s literature.
Henrik Ohlsson
Henrik Ohlsson is a Central Asia specialist and co-founder of the Stockholm based think tank Eurasia Forum.
Ann-Judith Rabenschlag
PhD in History and postdoctoral researcher at the Department of History at Stockholm University. Current research concerns historical semantics (discourse analysis, conceptual history); migration, integration, intercultural communication; identity building in societies and nations. She has a focus on modern European history.
Andrej Kotljarchuk
is a senior researcher, associate professor and director of operations at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University. He is a leader of the ongoing research project “Memory Politics in Far-Right Europe: Celebrating Nazi Collaborationists in Post-1989 Belarus, Romania, Flanders and Denmark”, supported by The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies.
Kateryna Mishchenko
Writer, editor, and translator of German in Kyiv. Born in Poltava, she studied German and literary studies at the Kyiv Linguistic and Hamburg University. Lecturer in history of literature at Kyiv Linguistic University and translator in human rights and social spheres. Co-founder of the Ukrainian publishing house Medusa.
Gustav Strandberg
PhD student in philosophy at Södertörn University. He is writing a dissertation on the political thought of Jan Patočka with the provisional title “Abyssal Politics – the political thought of Jan Patočka”. His main areas of study are phenomenology and political philosophy.
Jean-Luc Nancy
In 1973, he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Kant. Nancy was then promoted to Maître de conférences at the Université des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg. In the 1970s and 1980s, Nancy was a guest professor at universities all over the world. In 1987, Nancy received his Docteur d’état which was published 1988 as L’expérience de la liberté.
Ewa Majewska
PhD in philosophy. Since 2003 lecturer at the Institute for Gender Studies at the University of Warsaw. In 2013/14 senior visiting fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. She has published two monographs and some 30 articles. Currently a visiting fellow at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry in Berlin.
Leonard Neuger
Professor of Polish language and literature, and translator. Researcher at the Institute of Polish Literature and Culture at the University of Silesia (1974–1982) in Katowice, where he founded Solidarity. Interned and imprisoned 1981–82. Researcher at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Stockholm University, and its director since 2003. Author of over 200 scientific papers and critical essays.
Ludger Hagedorn
PhD and research leader at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. From 2005 to 2009 he was a Purkyne Fellow at the Czech Academy of Sciences. His main interests include phenomenology, political philosophy, modernity, and secularization. As a lecturer, he has worked at the Gutenberg University of Mainz, at Södertörn University and for several years at Charles University in Prague. Recently, he has also taught for New York University in Berlin.
Lars Fredrik Stöcker
PhD in history and civilization. Currently postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University. He focuses on early marketization in the USSR and the role of Western people and organizations in the implementation of market-oriented economic reforms in the Estonian, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republics.
Tetyana Bureychak
Independent researcher and GEXcel International Collegium open position fellow affiliated with the Unit of Gender Studies, Linköping University since June, 2012. Her research interests lie in feminist and gender theories, critical studies of men and masculinities, nationalism, gender politics, and consumer and visual culture.
Daria Dmitrieva
Culture researcher, PhD, with interests in modern culture, popular culture, comics, visual culture, and culture theory. Founder and director of the cultural center “PUNKTUM” (http://www.punktum.ru ). Head of publishing house “IZOTEKA”. Lecturer at the Russian State University of the Humanities, Moscow.
Ekaterina Vikulina
PhD in cultural studies and lecturer at the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow). Research areas: visual culture studies, media, photography, gender and the culture of the Soviet “Thaw”. Member of the Art Critics and Art Historians Association.
Ilkin Mehrabov
PhD candidate at Karlstad University’s Department of Geography, Media and Communication. Originally from Azerbaijan, with previous studies in Turkey, obtaining degrees in electrical-electronics engineering and media and cultural studies. His thesis focuses on mediatization and surveillance.
Madina Tlostanova
Professor of Postcolonial Feminisms at the Department of Thematic Studies/Gender Studies division at at Linköping University, Sweden. The author of eight scholarly books, over 250 articles and two postcolonial novels, Tlostanova focuses on non-Western gender theory, decolonial and postcolonial theory, and postsocialist studies.
Kjetil Duvold
PhD in political science. Positions at Södertörn, Humboldt, Vytautas Magnus, and Vilnius universities. Among his books is Making Sense of Baltic Democracy: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania between the Soviet Union and the European Union (2010).
Mose Apelblat
Former official at the European Commission. In recent years he worked as policy coordinator for public administration reform and good governance in the candidate countries. Regular commentator on EU affairs as well as other issues.
Krister Eduards
Former counselor at the Swedish Embassy in Moscow.
Sara Granath
Theatre critic and former senior lecturer in comparative literature, Södertörn University.
Julia Malitska, Olena Podolian & Yuliya Yurchuk
Yuliya Yurchuk, PhD in history, CBEES, Södertörn University. She conducts memory studies in Ukraine, and focuses on the representations of the past and their effects on the present and future. Julia Malitska is doctoral student in history at School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University and examines Russia's imperialism and colonization of Azov and Black Sea region in the 19th century. Olena Podolian is a doctoral student in political science at Södertörn University and studies regime change, challenges for democracy and state-building in former Soviet countries with a focus on Ukraine and Estonia.
Ann-Marie Ekengren
Professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg. Her main research areas are foreign policy decision-making, international relations, and party politics.
James Wesley Scott
Professor of geography at the Karelian Institute at the University of Joensuu and research fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning. He focuses on urban and regional development policy, geopolitics, and border studies.
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa & Magdalena Góra
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa is Professor of Eastern and Central European Studies; director for the Centre for European Studies, Lund University, Sweden. Magdalena Góra is Assistant professor at the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Cracow. PhD in political science.
Oksana Shmulyar Gréen & Andrea Spehar
Oksana Shmulyar Gréen is PhD in sociology and senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg. ANndrea Spehar is PhD in political science and senior lecturer at the University of Gothenburg; researcher at the Centre for European Research (CERGU).
Anne Wæhrens
PhD in history, currently employed at Metropolitan University College in Copenhagen. Her dissertation deals with the role and function of the memory of the Holocaust in the EU and the European Parliament.
Ferenc L. Laczó
PhD in history, researcher at Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena. His research interests are cultural and intellectual history, modern Europe, and Jewish history.
Edward Kanterian
Senior lecturer at the University of Kent.
Sara Feldman
PhD, currently holds a post-doctoral position at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan.
Margaret Tali
Mobilitas plus postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Current research deals with the complex memories of WWII in the Baltic States in practices of contemporary art and documentary film.
Katja Lehtisaari
Postdoctoral researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki.
Ilya Kalinin
Associate professor in the Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University.
Elina Kahla
She is a fellow at the Center of Excellence in Russian Studies funded by the Academy of Finland (2012–2017), and the director of the Finnish Institute in St. Petersburg.
Jenny Björkman & Johan Eellend
Jenny Björkman and Johan Eellend are both PhD:s in history.
Elena Johansson
PhD and researcher at School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University.
Kristiina Silvan
Postdoctoral Fellow in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood and Russia research programme at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. She earned her PhD in Political History at the University of Helsinki in February 2022. Her PhD dissertation is titled Legacies of the Komsomol: Government-Affiliated Youth Activism in post-Soviet Belarus and Russia. Currently, she works primarily on state–society relations in Central Asian states, especially Kazakhstan, and Russia’s role in the Central Asian region.
Charlotte Bydler
PhD, is a lecturer at the department of art history and research coordinator in the cultural theory field, Center for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University, Sweden.
Ekaterina Tarasova & Karin Edberg
Karin Edberg is a doctoral student in sociology at BEEGS (Baltic and East European Graduate School), Södertörn University. Her dissertation aims to discuss local responses; resistance, normalization and legitimization, to new energy infrastructures. Ekaterina Tarasova is a doctoral student in political science, also at BEEGS, Södertörn University. Her research is devoted to the study of antinuclear movements and mobilisation in Russia, Poland and Sweden.
Linas Eriksonas
Linas Eriksonas is a founding member of the Demos institute of critical thought. Linas holds a doctorate from the University of Aberdeen and has been involved in a number of academic and public sector-related consultancy projects.
Roman Horbyk
PhD in media and communication. Previously connected to universities in Kyiv, Aarhus, Amsterdam, and Hamburg. Senior lecturer at Södertörn University, and a postdoctoral researcher at Umeå University in Media and Communication Studies. Roman Horbyk was born in Kyiv, Ukraine. He has worked as a journalist.
Fredrik Nilsson
Professor of ethnology and director of Centrum för Danmarksstudier (Center for Denmark Studies), Lund University.
Kristian Petrov
Associate professor of history of ideas, Södertörn University.
Alla Marchenko Sergiy Kurbatov
Alla Marchenko is associated researcher, Faculty of Sociology, National University of Kyiv. Sergiy Kurbatov is research fellow at Institute of Higher Education, National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine and guest researcher at Uppsala Centre for Russian Studies, Uppsala University.
Péter Balogh & Vassilis Petsinis
Péter Balogh is PhD candidate in Human geography, Stockholm University and connected to CBEES, Södertörn University. Dr Vassilis Petsinis is Visiting Researcher at the Herder Institut (Marburg, Germany). His main specialization is Ethnopolitics and European Politics with a regional focus on Central and Southeast Europe.
Daniel Kral
Postgraduate research student in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London.
Adrià Alcoverro
PhD student in history at the Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS), Södertörn University.
Susanne Nylund Skog
Associate professor and researcher at the Institute for Language and Folklore in Uppsala.
Piotr Wawrzeniuk
Associate Professor at the Swedish Defence University’s Department of Military History.
Håkan Tunón et al
Senior research officer at the Swedish Biodiversity Centre. Co-authors: Weronika Axelsson Linkowski, Marie Kvarnström, Ann Norderhaug, Jörgen Wissmans and Bolette Bele.
León Poblete & H. Richard Nakamura
LEÓN POBLETE is PhD candidate at the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. H. RICHARD NAKAMURA is assistant professor at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Karolina Zurek
Senior researcher in law at SIEPS, Swedish Institute for European Policy Research, and postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law at Stockholm University.
Lyudmyla Pavlyuk
Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism at Ivan Franko National University in Lviv, Ukraine. Her research field is the analysis of discursive constructions of national identity and representation of conflict in mass media.
Mykola Riabchuk
Political and cultural analyst in Kyiv, his last book “Glechschaltung. Authoritarian Consolidation in Ukraine, 2010-2012” was published in both Ukrainian and English.
Johnny Rodin & Pelle Åberg
Johnny Rodin is senior lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University. Pelle Åberg is PhD in political science, and senior lecturer at Södertörn University and Ersta Sköndal University College.
David Williams
DAAD postdoctoral fellow at the University of Konstanz. PhD in comparative literature from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Carl Marklund
PhD in political science and project researcher in “Transnational Art and Heritage Transfer and the Formation of Value: Objects, Agents, and Institutions” at CBEES, Södertörn University.
Norbert Götz
Professor at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University, Sweden. Conducts research on transnational history, spatial imagination, humanitarian efforts, and global civil society. Leads a project on regionalism in the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean regions.
Valters Bolevics, Jan Sjölin & Tatjana Volkova
Valters Bolevics, PhD, Riga International School of Economics and Business Administration, Jan Sjölin, associate professor, the Baltic International Academy in Riga and Tatjana Volkova professor, BA School of Business and Finance, Latvia.
Lina Håkansdotter
Archealogist, Gothenburg University
Madeleine Hurd & Steffen Werther
Madeleine Hurd is assistant professor in history, Södertörn University and Steffen Werther is PhD in history, also at Södertörn University.
Mai-Brith Schartau
Associate professor of political science at Södertörn University. Director for the former German Studies Research Unit.
Licia Cianetti
Licia Cianetti is a PhD student at UCL-SSEES (School of Slavonic and East European Studies) London. Her primary research interests are minorities, democratic representation and power. Her PhD research deals with the political representation of Russian-speaking minorities in Latvia and Estonia and their access to the policy-making process."
Arba Murati
Arba Murati is an election expert. She has worked in election observation missions and electoral assistance projects in Albania, Bulgaria, Kenya, Egypt, Congo DRC and Guinea Conakry.
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.
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 in history and philosophy. Previously an archivist at the Swedish Center for Architecture and Design (ArkDes); currently involved in the research project “Transnational Art and Heritage Transfer and the Formation of Value: Objects, Agents, and Institutions” at Södertörn University. Anna Kharkina previously worked in various cultural institutions in Russia and as a freelance curator and writer.
Yury Bit-Yunan
PhD and lecturer on literary criticism at the Russian State University for the Humanities.
Francesco Zavatti
PhD, is presently a researcher at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies and at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University, Sweden. He is a historian of contemporary European history, specialized in the history of East-Central Europe and of Romania in particular, and interested in transnational history and memory studies. His most recent research article on the memory politics of the Romanian far-right was published in Memory Studies in early 2021.
Freek van der Vet
The author is a PhD candidate at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki.
Nadezda Petrusenko
Currently a lecturer in history at Örebro University. She received her doctoral degree in 2018 at Södertörn University. Her research interests include gender history, historiography, and the history of terrorism in Russia.
Cristian Norocel
Is affiliated postdoctoral researcher to the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (CEREN), in the University of Helsinki (Finland), and adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, in Stockholm University (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
David Gaunt
Professor emeritus of History, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University. Member of the Academy of Europe section for history and archeology, the editorial board of Social History and International Genocide Studies and the Workshop for Armenian-Turkish Studies.
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.
Påhl Ruin
Freelance writer, based in Stockholm. He has previously worked and lived in Vilnius. He has earlier reported for Swedish publications from Tokyo and Vienna and worked for several years in Stockholm. Frequently published in Baltic Worlds.
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.
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.
Vassilis Petsinis
Visiting Researcher at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies (University of Tartu) courtesy of a research stipend from the Swedish Institute.
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.
Yulia Gradskova
Research Coordinator at CBEES and a researcher at the Department of Gender Studies, Södertörn University. Research interest: decolonial approach, gender studies, particularly “women of the East”, postsocialist culture studies.
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
An Associate Professor at the Department for Media Studies at Stockholm University, working with the questions the uses of communication and media tools by civil society activists. She is also interested in memory studies and published extensively on post-Soviet nostalgia. She runs the NGO Nordkonst, which aim is to contribute to a stronger international cooperation in the Baltic and the Nordic regions.
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.
Magnus Ljunggren
Professor Emeritus of Russian at the University of Gothenburg.
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
Associate Professor in Criminology and Sociology, the Department of Criminology and Sociology, Kingston University London, UK.
Björn Rombach
Professor of business administration at the School of Public Administration, University of Gothenburg
Josefina Lundblad-Janjić
Holds a PhD in Russian Literature and is a Lecturer in Russian at the Swedish Armed Forces School for Interpreters.
Karl Schlögel
Professor emeritus of East European History at European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). Historian and writer, lives in Berlin. Among his books: Moscow 1937 (Polity Press 2012), The Scent of Empires. Chanel No 5 and Red Moscow (Polity Press 2021), Ukraine. A Nation on the Borderland (Reaktion Books 2022).
Jacob Christensen
Jacob Christensen is lecturer in social science at the department of Social Work, UC Lillebælt.
Ingmar Oldberg
Research associate at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) since 2009, member of its Russia and Eurasia programme, formerly Deputy Director of Research at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI).
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.
Florence Fröhlig
PhD in ethnology, Södertörn University. Focus on memory and mourning processes. Postdoctoral researcher in the Norface project TRANSWEL, and project researcher in “NuclearLegacies: Negotiating Radioactivity in France, Russia, and Sweden”.
Péteris Timofejevs Henriksson
Senior lecturer in political science at Södertörns 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.
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.
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. Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University.
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
An Associate Professor in Political Science and an Affiliated Researcher at IRES Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University. Her PhD project was conducted at Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS) at Södertörn University and focused on processes of Islamic revivalism and community mobilization in Azerbaijan. She has since continued her research on religious, political and civic activism, especially in the Azerbaijani context but also in comparison to other authoritarian states, Belarus in particular.
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.
Péter Balogh
Péter Balogh’s research focuses on geopolitical narratives in Hungary and Central and Eastern Europe. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Regional Studies, CERS-HAS, where he is critically analysing how and why the notion of ‘Central Europe’ has been changing over the past years.
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.
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).
Margareta Tillberg
Associate Professor in Art History, Uppsala University. Adjunct Professor, Stockholm University. She defended in 2003 her doctorate on Russian art and artists, Coloured Universe and the Russian-Avantgarde. M.V. Matiushin on Colour Vision in Stalin’s Russia 1932. Main research interests concern art in the widest sense possible (including theory and practice of visual culture, design, architecture, media) in Russia, the former Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, applying interdisciplinary perspectives. August 2024 Margareta Tillberg died at the age of 63 years.
Sergey Zhuravlev & Jukka Gronow
Together Gronow and Zhuralev have written a history of pre-war Soviet fashion.
Lena Jonson
Lena Jonson, an associated research fellow of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the former head of the Russia Program at UI. Among her recent books in the field addressed here is Waiting for Reform under Putin and Medvedev (2012), jointly edited with Stephen White (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan).
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.
Markus Huss
Associate Professor of German literary studies, Stockholm University. Member of Baltic Worlds Advisory Scientific Council. Markus Huss passed away December 2024.
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
Professor Emeritus in History 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
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
Professor at the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, a Doctor of Science of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her works have appeared in 16 different languages. In 2005, she was awarded the Officer’s Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary by the President of the Hungarian Republic and the Bolyai Prize by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2006.
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.