Associates of the Research Network 1989

A-H    G-O    P-Z    Festival Committee

Chris Armbruster (D, UK, PL, I)
Founder and Executive Director, Research Network 1989
Fellow of the Fondazione Antonio Ruberti (with EIROforum)
‘University finances: higher education, research and entrepreneurship’
PhD Sociology, Lancaster University
‘Explaining 1989’
MA Sociology and Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld University

Timur Atnashev (RUS, F)
Co-Founder and Director Communications and Conferences, Research Network 1989
European University Institute, History and Civilisation, PhD Researcher
MA Political Theory, Institute d’Etude Politiques, Sciences Po, Paris
MA Sociology, Moscow State University

Balazs Apor (H, I)
European University Institute, History and Civilisation, PhD Researcher
‘The Origins, Emergence and Manifestations of Mátyás Rákosi’s cult in Hungary 1945-1956’
MA English and American Studies, Debrecen University

Nina Bandelj (SLO, USA)
University of California, Irvine, Sociology, Assistant Professor
‘Social Inequality and Development in Postsocialist Europe’
PhD Sociology, Princeton University
‘Embedded Economies: Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe’
MA Sociology, Princeton University

Eszter Bartha (H)
Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest

Thieu Besselink (NL, I)
European University Institute, Law, PhD Researcher
‘An Anthropology of Authority and its Disappearance’
Msc Political Theory, London School of Economics

Roxana Bratu (UK)
London School of Economics

Maria Bytchkova (UK)
London School of Economics

Nagore Calvo (E, UK)
Lancaster University, Sociology, PhD Researcher
‘Processes of Institutional and Scalar Restructuring in a Complex Period of Global Interdependency: the case of the Basque Country’
MA Sociology, Lancaster University

Monica Ciobanu (R, USA)
Plattsburgh State University of New York, Sociology, Assistant Professor
PhD Sociology, New School for Social Research, New York
‘Problems of Political Legitimacy and Democratic Consolidation in Post Communism’
MA Gender Studies, New School for Social Research, New York

Laure Delcour (F, RUS)
Advisory Board of the Research Network 1989
Professor & lecturer (EU policies & institutions, European neighbourhood policy, political science) : Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Ecole Nationale d’Administration, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Moscow State University (MGU)
PhD, Political Science, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris
Studies, evaluations, training and policy advice under European Commission projects (External cooperation policy, good governance & institutional strengthening in the framework of EU accession process and the European Neighbourhood Policy)

Christian Domnitz (D, CZ)
Zentrum fuer Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, PhD Researcher
‘Europe in the socialist bloc. Imaginations and streams of social communication’
MA History, Humboldt University, Berlin

Juraj Draxler (BE)
The Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels

Maria Falina (RUS, H)
Central European University, Budapest, History, PhD Researcher
‘Orthodoxy and Serbian Nationalism in the Interwar Period’
MA History, Central European University, Budapest
MA History, Moscow State University

Jörg Forbrig (D, PL, H, I, SK)
Special advisor to the Research Network 1989 (Sponsorship and funding)
German Marshall Fund of the United States, Bratislava, Program Officer
PhD Social and Political Sciences, European University Institute
‘Civil Society in East-Central Europe’
MA Political Science, Central European University, Budapest

Esmeralda Gassie (IR)
Graduate Centre of Business, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Co. Limerick, Ireland

Anna Geltzer (RUS, USA)
Cornell University, Science and Technology Studies, PhD Researcher
‘Evidence-based medial practice in the USA and Russia’
MA John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master’s Program, New York University

Andrei Gornykh (BY, LT)
European Humanities University, Minsk-Vilnius, Visual and Cultural Studies, Professor
‘Rethinking Visual and Cultural Studies’
PhD Philosophy, St Petersburg State University

Ewa Gromnicka (PL, I)
European University Institute, Law, PhD Researcher
‘Europeanisation of public service provision – the EU impact on financial relations between the Member States and public service providers’
LL.M European University Institute, Florence
MA European Law, Gdansk University

Katarzyna Growiec (PL)
Graduate School for Social Research, Polish Academy of Sciences

Igor Guardiancich (I)
Department of Social and Political Science, European University Institute, Florence

Leo S. Halepli (UK)
London School of Economics

Andrea Hausmann (D)
Europe-University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Juniorprofessur Kulturmanagement Cofounder and Head of Master Program 'Cultural Management and Cultural Tourism'
PhD Business Administration, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Master of Business Administration, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Bogdan Iacob (R, H)
University of Maryland, Government and Politics Department, Research Fellow
Central European University, Budapest, History, PhD Researcher
‘Writing contemporary history in Romania - institutional and thematic dynamics of history production and its functions under communism (1963-1989)’
MA Nationalism Studies, Central European University, Budapest

Eva Jansova (BE)
Catholic University Leuven

Aleksandra Jasnovskaia (UK)
London School of Economics, Employment relations Group, Management Department

d’Artis Kancs, (UK)
London School of Economics, Department of Geography and Environment

Tatiana Karabchuk (RU)
The State University Higher School of Economics

Mills Kelly (USA, CZ, SK)
Advisory Board of the Research Network 1989
George Mason University, Department of History and Art History, Assistant Professor
Center for History and New Media, Associate Director
‘Making the History of 1989’
PhD History, George Washington University
Commonwealth of Virginia’s Outstanding Faculty Award ’Teaching with Technology’

Hennadii Korzhov (UA, CZ, PL)
Makiyivka Institute of Economics and Humanities, Donetsk, Associate Professor of Sociology
‘Oligarchy as a regional trajectory of development’
PhD Sociology, Polish Academy of Science, Graduate School of Social Research
MA Sociology, Central European University, Prague, with Lancaster University, UK

Lucia Kurekova (H)
PhD Candidate, Department of International Relations and European Studies, Central European University, Budapest

Kasia Lach (PL, AUS, I)
Co-Founder and Director of Funding and Finances, Research Network 1989
Melbourne University, Law, PhD Researcher
European University Institute, Law, Visiting Researcher
‘The European Union and the contemporary notion of state sovereignty’
MA International Commercial Law, Melbourne University
MA Law and Administration (Political Science component CEE), Warsaw University

Ferenc Laczo (H, NL)
Central European University, Budapest, History, PhD Researcher
‘Political ideologies in East Central Europe, liberalism and populism in particular’
MA History, Central European University, Budapest

Gabriella Meloni (I, RUS)
Co-Founder Research Network 1989
European University Institute, Social and Political Sciences, PhD Researcher
‘A comparative perspective on Europeanisation in Russia and the Ukraine’
MA Economics, La Sapienza, Rome

Tibor Meszmann (Serbia, H)
Central European University, Political Science, PhD Researcher
‘The Role of Ideas in Systemic Change - The Fate of the Workers’ Self-Management Systems in Poland, Serbia and Slovenia’
MA Political Science, Central European University, Budapest

Anastassia Obydenkova (RUS, I)
European University Institute, Social and Political Sciences, PhD Researcher
‘The impact of national federalism and trans-national regionalism upon the democratization of Russia’
MA Political Science, Central European University
MA Foreign Languages and Communication, Moscow State University

Yael Ohana (IRL, H, B, F, SK)
Special advisor to the Research Network 1989 (Conferences and facilitation)
Co-founder, Frankly Speaking – Training and Development
www.frankly-speaking.org and www.nonformality.org (education, learning,
youth, civil society)
Formerly, Council of Europe, Directorate Youth and Sport (European Youth Centre, Strasbourg)
MA European Studies, College d’Europe, Bruges;
MPhil Political Science, Central European University, Budapest.

Damiana G. Otoiu (R, B)
Universite Libre des Bruxelles, Political Science, PhD Researcher
‘A comparative approach to property restitution in eastern and central Europe after 1989’
MA Social Science, Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie and Bucharest University

Almira Ousmanova (BY, LT)
European Humanities University, Minsk-Vilnius, Visual and Cultural Studies, Professor
‘Rethinking Visual and Cultural Studies’
PhD Philosophy (Methodology of Science), Belarussian State University

Lena Pellandini-Simanyi (UK)
London School of Economics, Sociology Department

Vladimir Petrovic (Serbia, H)
Central European University, Budapest, History, PhD Researcher
‘Historians as Expert Witnesses: Refocusing a Debate’
MPhil Contemporary History, Belgrade University

Piotr Pykel (PL, CZ, I)
Special advisor to the Research Network 1989 (Media and communications)
Telewizja Polsat, International Relations Department
PhD History and Civilisation, European University Institute
‘Comparative Study of the Transition from Communist Rule to Democratic Government’
MA History, Padova University

Simina Radu-Bucurenci (R, H)
Central European University, Budapest, History, PhD Researcher
‘Documentary Images in 1980s Romania’
MA History, Central European University, Budapest

Iain Reid (UK)
London School of Economics, Employment Relations & Organisational Behaviour Group

Regine Spector (USA)
University of California, Berkeley, Political Science, PhD Researcher
‘The formation of trade, business, and markets in the post-Soviet region’
MA International Policy Studies, Stanford University

Sonja Strohmer (AT)
University of Vienna, Department of Industrial Sociology

Alina Surubaru (R, F)
Ecole Normale Superieur de Cachan, Sociology, PhD Researcher
‘The Transformations of a Centralized Economy: Becoming Capitalist in Romania after 1989’
MA Social Sciences, Ecole Normale Superieur de Cachan
MA Political Science, Universite de Paris I (Sorbonne)

Christopher Swader (D)
Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences,  University of Bremen

Vera Trappmann (D)
Friedrich-Schiller University Jena

Narcis Tulbure (USA)
Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh

Ivo Vassilev (BG, PL, UK)
University of Teeside, Middlesbrough, Research Fellow
‘Market and state in Bulgaria, Poland and Lithuania’
PhD Sociology, Lancaster University
MA Sociology, Central European University with Lancaster University, Warsaw

Olaf van Vliet (NL)
Leiden University, Department of Economics

Agnieszka Wenninger (PL, D)
German Social Science Infrastructure Services (GESIS), GESIS Service Agency Eastern Europe, Berlin
‘Knowledge Base – Social Sciences in Eastern Europe’
PhD Philosophy, Wrocław University
MA European Administrative Management, University of Applied Sciences for Administration and Legal Affairs, Berlin

Marko Zubak (HR, H)
Central European University, Budapest, History, PhD Researcher
‘Youth press in communist Yugoslavia’
MA History, Central European University, Budapest

Festival Committee

Anna Bara (RUS, H, I) – EUI, History and Civilisation, PhD Researcher
Olga Baranova (BY, H, I) - EUI, History and Civilisation, PhD Researcher
Diana Digol (MD, RUS, I, A, H, R) – EUI, Social and Political Sciences, PhD Researcher
Liisi Keedus (EST, I) - EUI, History and Civilisation, PhD Researcher
Anna Sobczak (RUS, PL, I) - EUI, Social and Political Sciences, PhD Researcher
Catherine Spieser (F, PL, I) - EUI, Social and Political Sciences, PhD Researcher
 

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