Guest Scholars

Constantin Ardeleanu, PhD 
Institute for South‐East European Studies, New  Europe College, Bucharest
Zeitraum: 2. bis 30. April 2024
Forschungsthema: "Trade, Politics and Institutions in the Black Sea Region in the Modern Age"

Evgeniia Chernina
Zeitraum: 18. März bis 28. März 2024
Forschungsthema:"Cohort and Experience in the Wage Evolution: Role of Systemic Shocks"

Alexandru-Florin Cioltei
Research Center of Cultural Heritage and Socio‐Cultural History at the "Lucian Blaga" University in Sibiu
Zeitraum:5. Februar bis 1. März 2024
Forschungsthema:"Transferring Digital Know-How. Cartographic Databases as Gate Openers for Historians in East and  Southeast Europe"

Prof. Dr. Michael Funke
Hamburg University, Department of Economics / Tallinn University of Technology, Department of Economics and Finance
Zeitraum: 15. bis 26. April 2024
Forschungsthema:"Economic Knock‐On Effects of Russia’s Geopolitical Risk on European Economies: A Global VAR  Approach"

Prof. Dr. Ala Kharatyan
Mesrop‐Maschtoz‐Institute of Ancient Manuscripts / Yerevan Brusov State University of Languages and Social Sciences
Zeitraum: 4. bis 28. März 2024
Forschungsthema:"Der Einfluss des Imperialismus‘ Russlands auf das armenische historische Denken im 19. Jahrhundert"

Prof. Dr. Yulia Kiselyova
School of History, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Zeitraum:12. bis 23. Februar 2024
Forschungsthema: "'Moving West': Ukrainian Academics in Conditions of Forced Migration (2014–2024)"

Alissa Klots, PhD
History Department of the University of Pittsburgh
Zeitraum:8. Januar bis 31. August 2024
Forschungsthema:"The Restless Generation: Soviet Retirees and the Meanings of Active Old Age, 1950s–1970s"

Yuki Murata, M.A.
Stipendiat (Marietta Blau-Stipendium des österreichischen Bundesministeriums für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung)
Zeitraum:vom 29. Januar 2024 bis 25. Januar 2025.
Forschungsthema:„Nationalization in Revolutionary Ukraine, 1905–1923: Ukrainian Self Determination and Russian Nationality”.

Prof. Slavo Radošević
University College London, School of Slavonic and East  European Studies
Zeitraum:2. bis 29. Februar 2024
Forschungsthema:"Techno‐economic Transformation in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union – A Neo‐ Schumpeterian Perspective"

Alexander Vezenkov, PhD
Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia
Zeitraum: 1. bis 28. März 2024
Forschungsthema:"The Non‐Party Regime(s) in Bulgaria (1934–1944) in Comparative Perspective"

Stefan Voicu, PhD
University of Bologna, Department of Cultural Heritage
Zeitraum: 4. bis 28. März 2024
Forschungsthema:"Labor Unions and Romanian Migrant Workers in the German Meat Industry"

Frano Bilić
Split
Zeitraum: 1. März — 30. Mai 2023
Forschungsthema: „Das Leben und Werk von Milan Šufflay“.

Tibor Bodnár-Király
Postdoc fellow, Thomas Molnar Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Public Service,
Budapest
Zeitraum: 10. Juli — 4. August 2023
Forschungsthema: „'Statistical Maps' and 'Mapping' at the Turn of the 18th‐19th‐Century East‐Central Europe “.

Magdalena Crăciun, PhD
Lecturer in Anthropology, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest
Zeitraum: 4. September — 29. September 2023
Forschungsthema: „Plastics: A Catalysis for Environmental Politics in South‐Eastern Europe“

Emilija Cvetković
Institut ekonomskih nauka, Belgrad
Zeitraum: 9. —18. Oktober 2023
Forschungsthema: „Yugoslav-American Joint Ventures: The Case Study of ‘Ei-Honeywell’“

Professor Dr. Askar Djumashev
Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences
Zeitraum: vom 4.9. bis 27.11.2023
Forschungsthema: „Soviet Political Elite in International Historiography: the Case of Karakalpakstan“.

Ivelina Eftimova, PhD
Faculty of Humanities, Department of History and Archaeology, Shumen University, Bulgaria
Zeitraum: vom 4. bis 15. Dezember
Forschungsthema: „Nature restoration in the Bulgarian Danubian floodplain“.

Attila Gáspár, PhD
KRTK-KTI, Budapest / University of Padova
Zeitraum: 6. März — 24. März 2023
Forschungsthema: „Technology adoption, labor substitution and political preferences“.

Marat Iliyasov, PhD
George Washington University, Elliott School of International Relations
Zeitraum: 31. Juli — 18. August 2023
Forschungsthema: „Comparing military, media, and political strategies of Putin’s wars in Chechnya and Ukraine“.

Prof. Dr. Iskander Gilyazov
Staatliche Universität Kazan’
Zeitraum: 1. Januar — 31. März 2023
Forschungsthema: „Türk-muslimische Emigration aus der UdSSR nach Westdeutschland (1940er–1960er Jahre)“.

Prof. Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
Director, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies; Chair, Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography, University of Alberta
Zeitraum: 16. Oktober — 14. November 2023
Forschungsthema: 1. “Collective Farming and Decollectivization in Ukraine: Rural Perspectives”, 2. “Testimony research in post-2022 Ukraine: mapping the field”.

Daša Ličen, PhD
Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), Ljubljana
Zeitraum: 1. Februar — 28. Februar 2023
Forschungsthema: „Class in the Shade of National Belonging: The Case of Late Habsburg Trieste“.

Prof. Astghik Mavisakalyan
Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University, Australia
Zeitraum: 3. Juli — 21. Juli 2023
Forschungsthema: „Natural Disasters and Inequality“

Yuki Murata, M.A.
Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna
Zeitraum: 3. Juli — 28. Juli 2023
Forschungsthema: „Nationality Policy of the Ukrainian Directorate and the Russian Minority, 1918—1920“

Dr. Anna Nicińska
Analyst DELab UW, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw
Zeitraum: 16.-26.10.2023
Forschungsthema: "Networks of Privilege: Long-Lasting Wealth Effects of Communist Party Membership"

Aleksandra Pomiecko, PhD
University of St Andrews, Lecturer in Modern Russian History, United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum, Contract Researcher
Zeitraum: 1. August — 29. August 2023
Forschungsthema: „Bandits, Outlaws and Robin Hoods in Postwar Europe, 1917–1925“

Adrián del Río, PhD
Humboldt postdoctoral fellow, Centre for East European and International Studies & Berlin Social Science Center
Zeitraum: 2.–31. Oktober 2023
Forschungsthema: „Economic crisis and Democratization: the Role of Elite Defections in Authoritarian Governments“

Iryna Sklokina, PhD
Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv
Zeitraum: 1. Februar — 22. Februar 2023
Forschungsthema: „Welfare on the Borderlands: Female Workers in Lviv“.

Milica Stojanović, M.A.
Balkan Investigative Reporting Network [BIRN]), Visiting Fellow im Rahmen des Projekts „Conflict and Cooperation in Eastern Europe. The Effects of the Reconfiguration of Political, Economic and Social Spaces since the End of the Cold War (KonKoop)“
Zeitraum: 2. bis 13.Oktober 2023
Forschungsthema: „Conflict and Cooperation in Eastern Europe: The Effects of the Reconfiguration of Political, Economic and Social Spaces since the End of the Cold War“

Professor Dr. Béla Tomka
Department of History, University of Szeged
Zeitraum: 16. Juni — 30. Juni 2023
Forschungsthema: „Globalization and East‐Central European Societies after 1989: A Book Project“.

Prof. Dr. Karine Torosyan
Associate Professor of Economics, International School of Economics in Tbilisi, Tbilisi State
University, Georgia
Zeitraum: 1. Juni — 30. Juni 2023
Forschungsthema: „Tracking income inequality in Georgia in 2017–2022: capturing shifts during COVID‐19 pandemic and post‐pandemic periods.“

Professor Dr. Yuriy Zazuliak
Department of History, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv
Forschungsthema: „Johannes Christian von Engel and Galicia's Past in the Making in the Habsburg Monarchy in the Late 18th Century“
Zeitraum: 4. bis 27. Oktober 2023

Bojan Baća, PhD (seeFField)
University of Gothenburg, Department of Sociology and Work Science
Zeitraum: 5. September — 16. September 2022
Forschungsthema: „A Rebellion with(out) a Cause? Political Opportunities, Resource Mobilization and Framing Strategies in Montenegro’s Antibureaucratic Revolution“.

Christofer Berglund, PhD
Malmö University, Department of Global Political Studies
Zeitraum: 4. April — 15. April 2022
Forschungsthema: „Fighting for the (Step)motherland? Predictors of Defense Willingness in Estonia’s Post-Soviet Generation”.

Prof. Dr. Gabriela Brendea
Babeş‐Bolyai University Cluj‐Napoca, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Finance
Zeitraum: 13. Juni — 1. Juli 2022
Forschungsthema: „Managerial biases and firms’ financing decisions: The case of Central and Eastern European
countries“.

Prof. Dr. Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski
University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES)
Zeitraum: 1. Juli — 31. Juli 2022
Forschungsthema: „Poland-Lithuania in the Age of the Atlantic Revolution".

Stefan Dorondel, PhD
Francisc I Rainer Institute of Anthropology, Bucharest
Zeitraum: 14. Februar –15. März 2022
Forschungsthema: „Contested Waterway. Governance and Ecology on the Lower Danube, 1800–2018”.

Prof. Dr. Oana-Ramona Ilovan
Faculty of Geography, Department of Regional Geography and Territorial Planning, Babeș‐Bolyai  University Cluj‐Napoca
Zeitraum: 8. August — 19. August 2022
Forschungsthema: „The Cartographic Discourse about Romanians, Romanian Space and Territorial Development, from  the Modern Period to Present“

Prof. Dr. Constantin Iordachi
CEU PU, Vienna, Department of History
Zeitraum: 4. April — 30. April 2022
Forschungsthema: „The Danube-Black Sea Canal: A Communist Experiment in Modernization, 1949–1984”.

Prof. Dr. Artjoms Ivlevs
University of the West of England Bristol, Deparmtent: FBL
Zeitraum: 4. Juli — 15. Juli 2022
Forschungsthema: „Religious revival and gender norms in transition and post‐transition economies: an inter‐ generational perspective“.

Joseph Kellner, PhD
University of Georgia, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
Zeitraum: 18. Juli — 29. Juli 2022
Forschungsthema: „Let Communism Live Forever: Post-socialist Nostalgia and Russia’s Hare Krishna Movement“.

Dr. Gergana Mircheva
Humboldtstipendiatin
Zeitraum: 1. August 2022 — 31. Januar 2023

Prof. Dr. Vjeran Pavlaković
(University of Rijeka, Department of Cultural Studies)
Zeitraum: 2. November — 28. November 2022
Forschungsthema: „Dalmatians in the Desert: Transnational Migration from Southeastern Europe to the American  Southwest, 1880—1920“

Prof. Dr. Norberto Pignatti
ISET International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University
Zeitraum: 7. Juni — 3. Juli 2022
Forschungsthema: „Risk Attitudes and Informal Employment in Post‐transition countries“

Corneliu Pintilescu, PhD (seeFField)
George Bariţiu Institute of History, Romanian Academy, Cluj‐Napoca
Zeitraum:  2. November — 30. November 2022 
Forschungsthema: „Political Violence, State of Siege and the Authoritarian Turn in Interwar Romania (1933–1938)“

Dr. Mariëlle Wijermars
Maastricht University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Zeitraum: 1. August — 31. August 2022
Forschungsthema: „The Platformisation of Authoritarian Control in Russia“

Nataliia Ivchyk, PhD
Rivne State University for the Humanities, Ukraine, Department of Political Sciences
Zeitraum: 1.9.21–30.11.21 
Forschungsthema: „Gender and Everyday Life in Volhynia and Podoloie Jewish Ghettos“.

Elena Kochetkova, PhD
Associate Professor, History Department, Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History, HSE – SPb
Zeitraum: 12.–27. Oktober 2021
Forschungsthema: „Green Gold: Forest Resources and the Trajectories of Ecologization of the Soviet/Russian economy and society, 1950s–2010s”.

Brigitte LeNormand, PhD.
Maastricht University, Humboldt-Stipendiatin
Forschungsthema: „The impact of border changes after the Second World War on the city of Rijeka“
Zeitraum: 1. August bis 31. Oktober 2021

Natalia Maslii, PhD
Faculty of Economics and Law, Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University; National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Zeitraum: 1. bis 29. November 2021
Forschungsthema: „Development of intermodal and multimodal transportation along the Danube region“

Aram Simonyan, PhD
Economics Department, International Scientific Educational Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
Zeitraum: 1.9.21–31.8.22
Forschungsthema: "Are integrated socioeconomic approaches effective in curbing corruption? Evidence from novel data on Eastern European countries".

Dr. Miha Zobec, PhD
Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenian Migration Institute
Zeitraum: 1.9.21–31.10.21
Forschungsthema: „Between the ‘Unredeemed Brothers’ and the ‘Tenth Banovina’: The Julian March Emigrants and Nation-Building in the Interwar Yugoslavia”.

Agustín Cosovschi, PhD
Centre d'études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques, Paris
Forschungsthema: ‘Our Solidarity from the most Southern Place on Earth’: Political Connections and Transfers between Yugoslavia and the Southern Cone During the Early Cold War
Zeitraum: 18. Oktober bis 7. November 2020

Hristo Hristozov, DAAD-Stipendiat
Centre d'études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques, Paris
Forschungsthema: "Climate variability and crisis of food provisioning: droughts, floods and grain supply in Ottoman Rumelia during 1780's and 1790's" (DAAD Re-invitation Programme for Former Scholarship Holders, 2020)
Zeitraum: 1. bis 31. Oktober 2020

Dr. Kateryna Kobchenko
Zentrum für Ukrainische Studien der Philosophischen Fakultät an der Nationalen Taras Schewtschenko Universität Kiew
Forschungsthema: „Exil, Nationalismus und Kalter Krieg: die ukrainischen Emigranten in Deutschland als transnationale politische Akteure“
Zeitraum: 31. August–18. September 2020

Marta Kuźma, PhD
Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna Warsaw
Forschungsthema: „Evaluation of metadata of cartographic resources collected in GeoPortOst”
Zeitraum: vom 2. bis 22. März 2020

Dr. Ksenia Maksimovtsova
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Historical Research, National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg
Forschungsthema: “Is There a New ‛East‐West’ Conflict? The Discourse(s) of Anti‐Russian Sanctions and Counter‐ Sanctions in Russian and American Digital Media“
Zeitraum: 1.–29. März 2020

Olha Martyniuk
DAAD-Stipendiatin
Forschungsthema: "Ukrainer in der Roten Armee: Darstellungen und Wahrnehmungen in der Ukraine seit 1991".
Zeitraum: 1. Oktober 2020 bis 30. September 2021

Prof. Dr. Beata Medyńska-Gulij
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Institute of Physical Geography and Environmental Planning, Department of Cartography and Geomatics
Forschungsthema: „Geschichten aus dem Kartenreich in Regensburg/Stories from the Realm of Maps in Regensburg“
Zeitraum: 1. bis 22. September 2020

Mirjam Mencej
Humboldt-Alumni-Stipendiatin, Professorin für “Folklore Studies and Comparative Mythology at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology”,  Universität Ljubljana
Forschungsthema: „Discursive Religious Practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Between Church, Ethnic Identity, and Politics”
Zeitraum: vom 5. Februar bis 30. April 2020

Ina Merdjanova, PhD
Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin & Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations, Coventry University
Forschungsthema: „Women, Orthodox Christianity and Neo‐Secularization in Bulgaria”
Zeitraum: 13. Februar–12. März 2020

Dr. Matthias Morys
Senior Lecturer am Department of Economics der Universität York (UK)
Zeitraum: 1. Januar bis 30. April.

Dr. Petru Negura
Humboldt-Stipendiat
Forschungsthema: „Primary Education, Nation-Building, and Cultural Clashes in the Border Areas of USSR, Romania, and Poland in the Interwar Period (1918–1940)“
Zeitraum: vom 14.10.2020 bis 31.03.2022

Marina Vulovic
DAAD-Stipendiatin, Doktorandin an der Universität Helsinki (Doctoral Programme in Political, Societal and Regional Changes)
Forschungsthema: „The Brussels Dialogue as a Political Contact Zone: From Envisioned Community to Contested Partition”.
Zeitraum: vom 14. Januar bis 12. März 2020

Prof. Dr. Mirela Altić
Institute of Social Sciences, Head of Centre for Urban and Local History, Zagreb
Forschungsthema: “The Formation of Yugoslavia’s Boundary in the Aftermath of the Paris Peace Conference (1919) and Its Influence on Contemporary Nation‐States’ Boundaries Formation: A Cartographic Perspective”
Zeitraum: 29. April–27. Mai 2019

Ekaterina Boltunova
National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Forschungsthema: “Central Russia as a Periphery: Historical and Geographical Presentation Models from Imperial Times to Contemporary Russia”
Zeitraum: 1.–22. September 2019

Anatole Danto
BayFrance-Programm (Bayerisch-Französisches Hochschulzentrum)
Forschungsthema: “Environmental History of the Southeastern Gulf of Finland: the Luga Estuary and its Coastal Communities”
Zeitraum: vom 2. bis 31. Juli 2019

Dr. Olga Degtiareva
Juniorprofessorin, Nationale Wirtschaftsuniversität Odessa, Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftlehre
Forschungsthema: „Pfadabhängigkeiten im Energiesektor in der Ukraine und in Deutschland im Vergleich“
Zeitraum: 12. Mai bis 8. Juni 2019

Prof. Dr. Igor Duda
Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Faculty of Humanities, Department of History
Forschungsthema: „Citizens as self-managers: local communities in Yugoslavia 1970s–1980s“
Zeitraum: 17. Juni bis 14. Juli 2019

Aurelia Felea
Stipendiatin
Zeitraum: vom 1. Oktober bis 30. November 2019
Forschungsthema: "Everyday Life and (Re)defining Identity in the Gulag: A Study Based on Autobiographical Texts Belonging to People from Bessarabia and Bukovina Deported to Kazakhstan"

Petr Horák
Stipendiat 
Zeitraum: vom 5. bis 25. August 2019
Forschungsthema: "The causal effect of R&D subsidies revisited: Instrumental variable approach"

Dr. Deana Jovanović
Leibniz-DAAD-Stipendiatin
Zeitraum: vom 7. Januar bis zum 31. Dezember
Forschungsthema: "Infrastructural encounters across former Yugoslavia: ethnographic perspectives"

Prof. Dr. Christina Koulouri
Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences, Athens
Forschungsthema: “Historical Memory and Historical Culture in Greece, 1821–1930”
Zeitraum: 3.–30. Juni 2019

Astghik Mavisakalyan
Curtin University, Perth
Forschungsthema: “Can bribing keep the doctor away? Health consequences of bribery”
Zeitraum: 18. Juni – 5. Juli 2019

Dr. Goran Musić
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Bosnia and Herzegovina, Wien
Forschungsthema: “Self-Managing in Africa: Trials and Tribulations of a Yugoslav Automotive Enterprise in Zambia”
Zeitraum: 1.–14. Juli 2019

Brigitte Le Normand
University of British Columbia, Humboldt-Stipendiatin
Forschungsthema: „The impact of border changes after the Second World War on the city of Rijeka“
Zeitraum: vom 7. Januar bis zum 30. Juni 2019

Ivaylo Naydenov, PhD
Assistant Professor at the Institute for Historical Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Forschungsthema: “Patterns of migration and trade in Southeastern Europe during the 18th and 19th century (Bulgarian and Greek entrepreneurial experience in comparative perspective)”
Zeitraum: 8. - 21. September 2019

Dr. Milena Nikolova
University of Groningen, Faculty of Economics and Business
Forschungsthema: “The Long-term Socio-Economic Consequences of Gulags”
Zeitraum: 14.–28. Juli 2019

Maksym Obrizan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Kyiv School of Economics and Senior Economist, Kyiv Economics Institute, Ukraine
Forschungsthema: “The effects of conflict on happiness and health”
Zeitraum: 21.–31. Oktober 2019

Gregory Simons, PhD
Uppsala University, Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies [IRES]
Forschungsthema: “Branding and Communicating the Armed Conflict in Ukraine”
Zeitraum: 1.–15. August 2019

Oleksandr Shepotylo, PhD
Aston University, Birmingham; Aston Business School
Forschungsthema: “Effects of political uncertainty and conflict on economic development: microeconomic evidence”
Zeitraum: 25. Mai–8. Juni 2019

Dr. Sergiy Stelmakh
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Forschungsthema: “Imperialismus, Nationalismus, Fremdenfeindlichkeit und Toleranz in Osteuropa im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert”
Zeitraum: 17.–30. Juni 2019

Dr. Borbála Zsuzsanna Török
Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Universität Wien
Forschungsthema: “Describe and Govern. Statistics and State Building in the Composite Habsburg States, ca. 1770– 1867”
Zeitraum: 4.–28. Juli 2019

Dmitriy Vorobyev, PhD
Graduate School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Forschungsthema: “Explaining Gender Differences in Corruption Perception: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, and Post‐Soviet Countries”
Zeitraum: 28. April–11. Mai 2019