Team

Ulf Brunnbauer has been Professor for the History of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe at the University of Regensburg since 2008. He defended his Habilitation at Berlin Free University and gained his PhD from the University of Graz. He is Director ofthe Leibniz Institute for East and South-East European Studies (IOS) and Co-Director of the Graduate School for East and South-East European Studies. His research focuses on migration, social history, and nations and nationalism. He has been Spokesman of the Executive Board of the Leibniz Regensburg since its founding in September 2019.

Anne Brüske joined the Board of the ScienceCampus in October 2023. Her research and teaching focuses primarily on the borderlands and boundary areas of academic disciplines and cultural spaces. Her work spans cultural studies and sociology, addressing interdisciplinary questions relating to space as an aspect of cultural exchange and global dynamics. She is based at DIMAS at UR.

Birgit Hebel-Bauridl (Akademische Oberrätin, American Studies, UR) is Managing Director of the Regensburg European American Forum (REAF). Her current project focuses on embodied memory and multiscalar European-American cultural negotiations at the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial and Museum. Further research interests include multiscalar performance; critical regionalism; nationalsocialism and transgenerational trauma; resistant epistemologies and critical whiteness studies. She served on the CITAS Executive Board April 2019 until October 2022, when the Center was merged into DIMAS. She is a founding member of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Board of Directors.

Cindy Wittke graduated in international law and leads the Politics Department at the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), where she is working on several projects, including an exploration of international law in the post-Soviet space. She received her PhD from the Free University of Berlin. She also joined UR in April 2025, as a Professor of Normativity in International Politics at the Faculty of Law. She is a member of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Board of Directors.

Volha Bartash is ethnologist and historian of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union exploring themes including the Nazi genocide and World War II. She is Co-Speaker of one of the LSC Research Networks Margins of Memory.

A New In-security Architecture for Europe: Postwar Order and Non-nuclear Deterrence in Ukraine-Russia Relations

Elia Bescotti is a post-doctoral researcher at the Leibniz ScienceCampus. Since April 2025 he is developing a research project on “A new in-security architecture for Europe: postwar order and non-nuclear deterrence in Ukraine-Russia relations.” The project problematises: a) the conditions for mutual deterrence in the Ukraine-Russian relationship looking at deterrence theory in a comparative perspective with other protracted territorial conflicts (Korean Peninsula, Kashmir Region, Golan Heights) b) the nature of the Ukrainian-Russian relationship, in terms of discourses and practices, looking at the opposing identity discourses.

In December 2024 Elia earned his PhD in Political Science at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) defending his thesis on “Ontological in-securities in the post-Soviet politics of international law. Contested sovereignties between Georgia-Abkhazia, and Moldova-Transnistria.” The thesis an outcome of the research project “Between Conflict and Cooperation: the Politics of International Law in the Post-Soviet Space” carried out at IOS between 2019-2022 and funded by the BMBF. Elia also received financial support from the DAAD (2018-2019), and from the Wiener-Anspach Foundation (ULB) to complete his doctoral research at Russian and East European Studies, University of Oxford (Jan-Jun 2023). He is also an alumnus of the Graduate School of East and Southeast European Studies of the University of Regensburg.

Learn more about him and his research in the short video profile on our YouTube channel.

Selection Publications

(Forthcoming) Non-recognition of States: Transnistria, Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Northern Cyprus. In: Löhr, Isabella and Dietmar Müller, The Routledge Handbook of the History of International Law: Eastern Europe. Routledge: Abingdon and New York.

(Forthcoming 2025) Between Law, the International and the ‘Political’: Carl Schmitt in the Political Sciences. In: Coman, Ramona, and Christian Olsson, Sitting on the Shoulders of Giants? A Retrospective View on Innovation in Political Science. Brussels: Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles.

Review: Eugen Străuțiu, Steven D. Roper, William E. Crowther, Dareg Zabarah-Chulak, Victor Juc, and Robert E. Hamilton, eds. 2023. The Armed Conflict of the Dniester. Three Decades Later.New York et al.: Peter Lang (South-East European History 3). 254 pp., ISBN 9781636672502  (hardcover), ISBN 9781636672519  (PDF), ISBN 9781636672526  (ePUB), € 79.39 (hardcover) / € 79.39 (eBook), in Comparative Southeast European Studies, 73, 1, 2025

Sovereignty Through Practice. Multiscalarity, Reflexivity, and Interdisciplinarity.Edited by Elia Bescotti and Jon-Wyatt Matlack. Routledge studies in Statehood. Routledge: Abingdon and New York, 2024. ISBN: 9781032797625 

Passportization: Russia’s “humanitarian” tool for foreign policy, extra-territorial governance, and military intervention (with Burkhardt, Fabian, Maryna Rabinovych and Cindy Wittke). In VerfaßungsBlog, 23/03/22, https://verfassungsblog.de/passportization/, DOI: 10.17176/20220323-121238-0 

Passportization, Diminished Citizenship Rights, and the Donbas Vote in Russia’s 2021 Duma Elections (with Burkhardt, Fabian, Maryna Rabinovych and Cindy Wittke). In TCUP Report; Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program Ukrainian Research Institute Harvard University, January 2022, https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/76864

Die Rolle Transnistriens im Diskurs des Präsidentschaftswahlkampfs in der Republik Moldau. In Russland-Analysen, № 394, 2020, 20/11/2020, https://www.laender-analysen.de/russland-analysen/394/transnistrien-und-praesidentschaftswahlkampf-in-moldau/, DOI: 10.31205/RA.394.02 

A Non-Resolution Limbo: Better Status Quo than Settled? Georgian Territorial Integrity, Russian Security Interests, and the Status of De Facto States in the Peace Process, in Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg / IFSH (Hrsg.), OSCE Yearbook 2019. Nomos: Baden-Baden, 2020, pp.151-162, DOI: 10.5771/9783748906421-151 

Oltre l'Impero. La politica mediterranea dell'Italia fascista. In Eurasia. Rivista di Studi Geopolitici, 52, 4, 2018, pp. 23-44.

Marie Beyrich researches on administrative, constitutional, and European law, exploring themes including migration law.

UR, Doctoral Researcher in American Studies and Administrative Manager of the Regensburg European-American Forum (REAF)

Ulf Brunnbauer has been Professor for the History of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe at the University of Regensburg since 2008. He defended his Habilitation at Berlin Free University and gained his PhD from the University of Graz. He is Director ofthe Leibniz Institute for East and South-East European Studies (IOS) and Co-Director of the Graduate School for East and South-East European Studies. His research focuses on migration, social history, and nations and nationalism. He has been Spokesman of the Executive Board of the Leibniz Regensburg since its founding in September 2019.

Anne Brüske joined the Board of the ScienceCampus in October 2023. Her research and teaching focuses primarily on the borderlands and boundary areas of academic disciplines and cultural spaces. Her work spans cultural studies and sociology, addressing interdisciplinary questions relating to space as an aspect of cultural exchange and global dynamics. She is based at DIMAS at UR.

Klaus Buchenau researches on the history of religion in Eastern Europe. He is currently researching on the link between religion and corruption in Russia and Serbia.

Volker Depkat has been Professor of American Studies in Regensburg since 2005. He completed his Habilitation at the University of Greifswald and gained his PhD from the University of Göttingen. His research focus lies in US and North American history, including European-American connections. He is supervising two of the ScienceCampus doctoral researchers, Thalia Prokopiou and Jon Matlack.

Ger Duijzings researches on themes such as war, violence and memory as well as identity, religion and politics in Southeastern and Eastern Europe. He is supervisor of Igor Stipic and Vita Zelenska, two of the ScienceCampus doctoral researchers, and head of the Area Studies initiative SeeFField in Regensburg.

Before joining UR in 2002, she previously held full professorships at the University of Wales (Bangor), the University of Alberta (Canada) and the University of Bergen (Norway). Her research and teaching sit at the multiple intersections between digital media and game studies, cultural studies, literary studies, and applied linguistics. She is UR Vice President for Artificial Intelligence, Digitalisation and Outreach.

Arevik Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan is Academic Vice Director of IOS. Following PhD in Economics at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, in 2014 with a thesis on the economics of trade agreements, shewas a postdoctoral researcher and then proferssor. She has served as an economic consultant/research associate for the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, the World Trade Organization, and BEROC.

Guido Hausmann is the head of the history division at the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) and Professor of History of Southeast and Eastern Europe at the University of Regensburg with a focus on Russia/the Soviet Union and Ukraine. He gained his PhD from the University of Cologne and defended his Habilitation at the University of Bielefeld. Since 2024, he has been co-speaker of the DAAD-funded Denkraum Ukraine Centre for Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies at UR.

Birgit Hebel-Bauridl (Akademische Oberrätin, American Studies, UR) is Managing Director of the Regensburg European American Forum (REAF). Her current project focuses on embodied memory and multiscalar European-American cultural negotiations at the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial and Museum. Further research interests include multiscalar performance; critical regionalism; nationalsocialism and transgenerational trauma; resistant epistemologies and critical whiteness studies. She served on the CITAS Executive Board April 2019 until October 2022, when the Center was merged into DIMAS. She is a founding member of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Board of Directors.

Andreas Hilger researches on leadership and organization, exploring themes including market entry strategies and human research management. He focuses especially on Germany and the Czech Republic.

Ralf Junkerjürgen researches on culture and literature of the 19th and 20th centuries exploring themes including cinema, popular culture, and cultural history. He is supervisor of Daniela Weinbach, a former ScienceCampus doctoral researcher, and director of the Spanish Research Centre (CEH), one of the ScienceCampus partner institutions.

Andrea Kaltenbrunner is a historian exploring themes including antisemitism, populism, and nationbuilding in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. She is a member of the steering board of the Area Studies initiative SeeFField.

Tatiana Klepikova researches on Slavic Culture and Literature with a PHD in Slavic Literature. She is Co-Speaker of one of the LSC Research Networks Margins of Memory.

Sabine Koller has been Professor of Slavic-Jewish Studies at the University of Regensburg since 2013. Her research interests include Slavic-Jewish and Yiddish literature, processes of cultural transfer and translation and the Eastern Jewish cultural renaissance.

Rike Krämer-Hoppe studied law in Groningen and Bremen, where she was awarded a doctorate. She held a postdoctoral fellowship at the  Jean Monnet Center, New York University, USA and a visiting scholar at the  Insper Institute in São Paulo in 2022 before joining UR. She has published extensively on climate change, the environment and law.

Katherina Kucher studied History and Slavic Language and Literature. She habilitated at the University of Tübingen in 2020 with a study on the history of childhood in nineteenth-century Russia.

Mirja Lecke researches on Slavic Literature and Culture, exploring themes including russian literature of the imperial and post-Soviet age. She is deputy speaker of the interdisciplinary project Denkraum Ukraine at the University of Regensburg. She is supervisor of Elisa Mucciarelli, a ScienceCampus predoctoral researcher.

Rainer Liedtke researches on European history, exploring themes including British and Irish history, urban history, and Jewish history. He was first supervisor of Cornelius Merz, a former ScienceCampus doctoral researcher, and second supervisor to another ScienceCampus PhD student, Thalia Prokopiou.

Project: Maneuvering towards ‘The West’: U.S. Army-Bundeswehr joint War Games as Conduit for Western Identity Formation

Thesis submitted October 2025 - awaiting viva (defence)

Contact: matlack@ios-regensburg.de

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Volker Depkat

Jon Matlack is a doctoral researcher at the Leibniz ScienceCampus where he is working on his research project, "Maneuvering towards 'The West': U.S. Army-Bundeswehr joint War Games as Conduit for Western Identity Formation". The doctoral project endeavors to identify Cold War-era War Games as a hitherto under examined resource in assessing historical narratives concerning U.S.-German relations. Moreover, the project intends to explore the implications of 'performing‘ acts of war on civil-military relations, especially with regards to American relations with the German Democratic Republic.

Jon earned his Bachelor‘s degree at Syracuse University in 2015 with a triple major in History, International Relations, and German Language. During his studies in New York, he successfully presented his Bachelor‘s thesis on American-West German exchanges on nuclear weapons in the 1960s at the Undergraduate Conference on German Studies at Moravian College, earning Best Research Project. Afterwards he pursued and completed his Master‘s at the University of Regensburg in European-American Studies. During his master‘s studies he actively participated in Summer School courses offered by the Bundeswehr‘s Zentrum Informationsarbeit (ZInfoABw), as well as completing an internship as a researcher at the Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr (ZMSBw) in Potsdam.

Jon looks forward to contributing to the field of Military History from an academic perspective informed by a broadened understanding of area studies and transnational interpretations of history. In November 2023, he held the prestigious Anthony D. Smith Fellowship at LSE Ideas. Find out more about his time there by clicking here.

Selected Publications

Jon-Wyatt Matlack,  Sebastian Schwartz and Oliver Gill. Ukraine's Drone Ecosystem and the Defence of Europe: Lessons Lost Can't be Learned. LSE Ideas. Research Report, April 2025.

Sovereignty through Practice: Multiscalarity, Reflexivity, and Interdisciplinarity. Elia Bescotti and Jon-Wyatt Matlack, eds. London: Routledge, 2025.

Jon-Wyatt Matlack: Allies through Thick and Thin: U.S. Navy Strategic Communication, 1986-1994, in Transatlantic Context. In Journal of Advanced Military Studies, Vol. 13, no.2, Marine Corps University Press (09.2022), https://doi.org/10.21140/mcuj.20221302002 

Jon-Wyatt Matlack: Militärmanöver: Scheinschlachten oder Vorboten des Krieges? In: Russland-Analysen, Ausgabe 417, (21.03.2022), doi: 10.31205/RA.417.03 

Jon-Wyatt Matlack: Operation Barbarossa 2021: Practices (Re)Rendering the Myth of the ‘clean’ Wehrmacht in Contemporary Grand Strategy Computer Gaming. In: Frictions (28.07.2021), doi: 10.15457/frictions/0007 

Reviews

Jon-Wyatt Matlack, “Piero Gleijeses, America’s Road to Empire: Foreign Policy from Independence to World War One”, European journal of American studies [Online], Book reviews, Online since 27 February 2023. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/19486; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.19486

Joanna Moszczyńska is a postdoctoral researcher at DIMAS, based with Anne Brüske, working on Latin American-East European connections. Having spent six months with Mecila in Sao Paolo, she joined UR with funding through the DFG Walter Benjamin Programme.

Elisa Mucciarelli is a researcher specialising in Russian-language literature from the North Caucasus, particularly Ingush and Chechen literature, as well as Russian-Georgian literary entanglements. Her research incorporates postcolonial, decolonial, and ecocritical approaches to Russian-language literature, with a focus on literary constructions of space.

• Find out more about Elisa and her research in this short video profile on our YouTube channel

She holds an M.A. in East-West Studies: Europe in Discourse, with a minor in Slavic Studies, from the University of Regensburg. Her master's thesis, Ingushetia’s Vernacular Landscape and the Colonial Encounter in Idris Bazorkin’s "Iz T’my Vekov" (1968), was published in a shortened version in ForAP, the journal of the University of Regensburg, in July 2024. Prior to her master's studies, she earned a B.A. in Scandinavian Studies with an additional curriculum in Slavic Studies from the University of Vienna (2017–2021). She also spent an Erasmus year at Vilnius University (2019–2020), where she studied Baltic and Slavic philology, focusing on Lithuanian, Latvian, and Russian.

Until March 2025, she was a research associate at the Chair of Slavic Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Regensburg (Prof. Mirja Lecke) and an associate lecturer for German as a Foreign Language at the Chair of Economics as part of the DAAD project Ukraine Digital. She previously worked as a student assistant at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) and at the University of Regensburg.

Currently, she is pursuing a PhD with the dissertation project The Space of Abkhazia in Transnational Georgian Literature and the Visual Arts after 2008 (working title). Her research delves into the dynamic (de)construction of the space of Abkhazia in multilingual and multimedia works by ethnic Georgians who were forced to leave the region after the civil war of 1992-93. By relying on a mixed methodology that stems from the geohumanities, post-humanism and post- and decolonial theory, her project seeks to define the social and conceptual space of the region as a relational concept and deepen the understanding of (post)colonial experiences in the post-1991 Russian sphere of influence.

Laura Niebling is a media scholar (Dr phil.) and has been the managing director of DIMAS since October 2024. Her work focuses on the history and theory of post-digital media and communication cultures.

Jacqueline Nießer completed her doctorate at the Graduate School of East and Southeast European Studies at the University of Regensburg. She has been working at the IOS since September 2024 for the Horizon Europe Twinning project RETLAMI-SEE - “Enhancing Capacities for Quality and Impactful Research on Transformations, Labour and Migration in Southeast-Europe”.

Timothy Nunan joined UR in 2022 from FU Berlin, where he was Head of the Volkswagen Freigeist Junior Research Group  on The Cold War's Clash of Civilizations at the Center for Global History. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard following a D.Phil at Oxford. He has pubilshed extensively on Cold War history, including studies on development in Afghanistan. His most recent book is Islamist Internationalism: Between the Cold War and Decolonization.

Edvin Pezo researches on Eastern and Southeastern European history. He is currently working on a book about Yugoslav domestic policy during the « era Ranković ».

Olga Popova is a Senior Researcher in the Department of Economics at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS, Regensburg). She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education – Economics Institute (CERGE-EI) and Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (2012), a M.A. in Economics from CERGE-EI (2007), and a B.A. in Economic Theory from the Department of Economics, Ural State University, Yekaterinburg, Russia (2005). She was an external consultant for the World Bank and is a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics. She is an Associate Editor of Comparative Southeast European Studies, the Journal of Population Economics, and the Journal of Happiness Studies. Her main research interests are environmental economics, quality of life, individual and regional inequalities, and economic and institutional development.

His research interests include a focus on German-Spanish connections and Latin America, especially Colombia.

Project: Notions of Home in the Far Right “White Genocide” Narrative: A Multinational and Multilingual Approach to Contemporary Far Right Self-Representations in Europe and the Americas

Supervisor: Prof. Dr Volker Depkat

Thalia Prokopiou holds a degree from Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, and a master’s degree in North and Latin American Studies from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (MA The Americas/Las Américas). She has conducted research in the fields of human rights, literature and culture. Alongside her academic pursuits, Thalia has also contributed as an editor and writing coach, honing her skills in communication and analysis.

At the Leibniz ScienceCampus Regensburg, Thalia is developing her interdisciplinary research on contemporary issues of political change and continuity. Her project takes a critical stance on far-right groups and parties, with a focus on comparative methodologies and discourses of power. The central research questions revolve around populist far-right rhetoric in Europe and the Americas with a comparative focus on Greece and the USA. The goal of the project is to dissect the tropes of homeland and analyze the aesthetics, symbols, and metaphors prevalent in far-right political narratives. Her project is characterized by key terms such as homeland, ultranationalism, populist rhetoric, far-right aesthetics and White Supremacy symbolism reflecting her commitment to rigorous analysis and critical engagement with pressing socio-political issues.

Selected Publications

• “Exploring Far-Right Shadows: Navigating disturbing archival material in California and Virginia”. In: Frictions Europe, America and Global Transformations (05.02.2024), doi: 10.15457/frictions/0032 
• “Competing Sovereignties: Intertwinement, Contestation, Evolution”. Report on the 2nd Graduate Workshop Conference of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg. With Nargiza Kilichova. In: Frictions: Europe, America and Global Transformations
• Impressions from the Workshop “Unbuilding binaries: Exploring affective and analytical responses to binary divisions as encountered in the field”. In: Frictions, doi: 10.15457/frictions/0011 . With Drivalda Delia, Frederik Lange, Daniela Mathuber, Eva-Maria Walther, and Vita Zelenska. 18 August 2021.

Selected Presentations

• Sculpting Far-Right Memoryscapes: Far-Right ‘Honor and Memory Ceremonies’”. Paper presentation at the Memory Studies Association 8th Annual Conference Memories in Transit. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú. 18–20 July 2024.
• “Battlegrounds of Memory: Unveiling Far-Right Ultranationalism at War Memorial Sites”. Paper presentation at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism Nationalism and Memory. University of Edinburgh, UK. 9–11th April 2024.
• “Gender Front: White Supremacist Gendered Narratives and Spatial Divides”. Paper presentation at the UC Berkeley Postdoctoral Forum. University of California, Berkeley, USA. 28 September 2023.
• “’Racial Humanism and Ecological Consciousness’: Golden Dawn’s Ecofascist Discourse”. Paper presentation at the 4th Graduate Workshop of the GS OSES Environmental Discourses and Practices in Eastern and Southeastern Europe: Challenges and Opportunities. Regensburg, Germany. 25–27 May 2023.
• “Race, Mysticism and Pseudo-populism in Contemporary White Supremacist Narratives: Examples from Greece and the USA.” Paper presentation at the 9th European Workshops in International Studies. University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki Greece. 7 July 2022.
• “Remembering Antiquity: ‘White identity’, ‘white homeland’ and populism in contemporary alt-right discourses.” Paper presentation at the American Studies Colloquium. Regensburg University, Germany.
  9 December 2021.
• “The Challenges of Digital and Media Ethnographies. ”Collaborative presentation with Lara Saadi & Karen Silva Torres (University of Leipzig) and Vita Zelenska (University of Regensburg) for the series Area Studies Under Discussion: Area Studies and the Challenges of the Digital Era. Universities of Leipzig, Marburg and Regensburg. 18 January 2021. Online.
• “Derechos lingüísticos en México: El acceso al intérprete en el ámbito procesal.“  Poster presentation in Primer Foro de Cultura Indígena: México Multicultural y Plurilingüe. Guanajuato, Mexico, 24–26 Aug 2016.

Conference Co-Organization

• Transnational Memory Cultures and American Studies. 32nd Annual Conference of the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA). Regensburg, Germany, 9–12 November 2022
• Competing Sovereignties: Intertwinement, Contestation, Evolution. 2nd Graduate Workshop of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies in cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern World. Regensburg, Germany, 2–4 December 2022
• Mobilities and Transformations: Perspectives from the Americas. 1st International Conference of RIIA – Interdisciplinary Research Network on the Americas. Erlangen, Germany, 26–28 June 2019.

Scholarships and Grants

• Leibniz ScienceCampus Writing-up Doctoral Research Scholarship (March 2024 – May 2024), Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America in the Modern World" Regensburg.
• Τravel Grant for archival research at the USA (May 2023), Bavarian American Academy.
• Frauenbeauftragte Travel Grant for archival research at the University of California, Berkely, USA (2023), Committee for Equal Opportunities for Women in Science and the Arts, University of Regensburg.
• Leibniz scholarship for doctoral researchers (March 2020 – December 2023), Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America in the Modern World" Regensburg.
• Bavarian Government Scholarship for international master’s students (October – November 2017), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Teaching and Tutoring

• Recorded lecture (September 2022)
  “Neoecofascism: The Green Nuances of the Neofascists./ Neo-Ökofaschismus. Die grünen Schattierungen der Neofaschisten” for the online lecture series (MOOC) Europe and America in the Modern World hosted on the Open Educational Repository of the Virtual University of Bavaria (vhb). https://oer.vhb.org/edu-sharing/components/render/e487e407-4836-4f00-bbd7-2354709b713d?viewType=1&id=15a0c0bc-a60b-4982-8312-583d6ea3d51d
• Hauptseminar co-facilitator (Summer Semester 2021)
  Assisted Prof. Dr. Ger Duijzings in Hauptseminar “Populism, the extreme right and the politics of resentment in the EU”.
• Academic Writing Coach - Student Assistant (April 2018 – March 2019)
  Writing Centre Learning Lab, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Sabine Rutar researches on World War II and Southeastern Europe, exploring themes including the Balkan Wars 1912/1913 and Yugoslavia during World War II.

Mélanie Sadozaï researches on history and politics in Central Asia, exploring themes including border regions and oral history. She is Co-Speaker of one of the LSC Research Networks Borders.

Her research interests include connections between Québec and Europe in the realm of culture, politics and history, with a particular focus on film, literature and art.

Thomas Steger has held the Chair of Business Administration, specializing in Leadership and Organization, at the University of Regensburg since 2011. He completed his Habilitation and PhD at the Chemnitz University of Technology. His research interests include corporate governance and employee-owned companies.

Photo: Julia Dragan / UR

Natali Stegmann has been the coordinator for research on Eastern Europe at the University of Regensburg and a professor at the chair of Southeast and Eastern Europe since 2009. Her research interests include the history of East-Central Europe, International Organisations, late socialism and gender and cultural history.

The State and its Students: Hegemonic Structures, Subaltern Pedagogies, and Fractured Community in Bosnia and Chile

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ger Duijzings

Igor Stipić holds an MA in Political and Social Studies from the University of Alberto Hurtado in Santiago de Chile and another MA in Political Economy from the University of Economics in Prague. After finishing his master’s studies, Igor worked for four years as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Köszeg (iASK), where he also lectured on the International Studies MA program at the University of Pannonia (Hungary). Currently, Mr. Stipić is a doctoral candidate in Sociology and Political Anthropology at the University of Regensburg and Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS).

His doctoral research project is titled The State and its Students: Hegemonic structures, subaltern pedagogies and fractured community in Bosnia and Chile. It adopts an ethnographic approach to studying anti-hegemonic high-school social movements in the two societies, while also making both subaltern and critical theory-based contributions for studying social formations known as nation-states. In his work Igor engages with interdisciplinary approaches, combining insights from the fields of sociology, anthropology, and critical theory.  His research focuses on South East Europe and South America.

Selected Publications

Stipić, I. (2022). Whose is Herceg Kosača?: Populist memory politics of constructing the ‘historical people’ in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In Jensen, J. (Ed.). Memory and Populist Politics in Southeastern Europe (upcoming). New York: Routledge.

Stipić, I. (2021). Changing Chile’s Historical Cycle or Radical Comprises? The new President Gabriel Borić. In: Frictions (22.12.2021), doi: 10.15457/frictions/0014 

Stipić, I. (2019). Negotiating Identity: Micro-Politics of Mixing Apples and Pears in the High School of Jajce. In Trajković, D., Prodanović, S. and Draško, G.P. (Eds.). Urge for Engagement: Conditions of social change (139-170). Belgrade: Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory.

Stipić, I. (2018). Constructing the People: Citizen Populism against ethnic hegemony in Bosnia and Herzegovina in light of 2013-2014 protests. Civil societies and social movements in the changing democracies of Central and Eastern Europe ,: 90-110.

Stipić, I. (2017). La autonomía cambiante en los tiempos de PT: Explicando la subida y la caída del Gigante Sudamericano. (Changing Autonomy in times of PT: Explaining the rise and fall of the Southern Giant). Encrucijada Americana 9, 9-31.

Stipić, I. (2017). Ethno Bureaucratic Patrimonialism: The Political Regime of Bosnia-Herzegovina. POLIS 16, 91-116.

Tillmann Tegeler studied East and Southeast European History, Medieval History, and Slavic Studies in Munich and Moscow. In 2000, he graduated with an MA. In the same year, he started working at the library of the Institute for East European Studies (OEI) in Munich, and in 2004 also at the Institute for Southeast European Studies (SOI). With the relocation of the two institutes to Regensburg in 2007, he became head of the libraries. Since 2012, he has been head of the Library and Electronic Research Infrastructure Department.

Her research interests include performative practices in historical culture (doing history) including historical reenactment in the USA, Germany, and Poland.

Cindy Wittke graduated in international law and leads the Politics Department at the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), where she is working on several projects, including an exploration of international law in the post-Soviet space. She received her PhD from the Free University of Berlin. She also joined UR in April 2025, as a Professor of Normativity in International Politics at the Faculty of Law. She is a member of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Board of Directors.

Project: Maneuvering towards ‘The West’: U.S. Army-Bundeswehr joint War Games as Conduit for Western Identity Formation

Thesis submitted October 2025 - awaiting viva (defence)

Contact: matlack@ios-regensburg.de

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Volker Depkat

Jon Matlack is a doctoral researcher at the Leibniz ScienceCampus where he is working on his research project, "Maneuvering towards 'The West': U.S. Army-Bundeswehr joint War Games as Conduit for Western Identity Formation". The doctoral project endeavors to identify Cold War-era War Games as a hitherto under examined resource in assessing historical narratives concerning U.S.-German relations. Moreover, the project intends to explore the implications of 'performing‘ acts of war on civil-military relations, especially with regards to American relations with the German Democratic Republic.

Jon earned his Bachelor‘s degree at Syracuse University in 2015 with a triple major in History, International Relations, and German Language. During his studies in New York, he successfully presented his Bachelor‘s thesis on American-West German exchanges on nuclear weapons in the 1960s at the Undergraduate Conference on German Studies at Moravian College, earning Best Research Project. Afterwards he pursued and completed his Master‘s at the University of Regensburg in European-American Studies. During his master‘s studies he actively participated in Summer School courses offered by the Bundeswehr‘s Zentrum Informationsarbeit (ZInfoABw), as well as completing an internship as a researcher at the Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr (ZMSBw) in Potsdam.

Jon looks forward to contributing to the field of Military History from an academic perspective informed by a broadened understanding of area studies and transnational interpretations of history. In November 2023, he held the prestigious Anthony D. Smith Fellowship at LSE Ideas. Find out more about his time there by clicking here.

Selected Publications

Jon-Wyatt Matlack,  Sebastian Schwartz and Oliver Gill. Ukraine's Drone Ecosystem and the Defence of Europe: Lessons Lost Can't be Learned. LSE Ideas. Research Report, April 2025.

Sovereignty through Practice: Multiscalarity, Reflexivity, and Interdisciplinarity. Elia Bescotti and Jon-Wyatt Matlack, eds. London: Routledge, 2025.

Jon-Wyatt Matlack: Allies through Thick and Thin: U.S. Navy Strategic Communication, 1986-1994, in Transatlantic Context. In Journal of Advanced Military Studies, Vol. 13, no.2, Marine Corps University Press (09.2022), https://doi.org/10.21140/mcuj.20221302002 

Jon-Wyatt Matlack: Militärmanöver: Scheinschlachten oder Vorboten des Krieges? In: Russland-Analysen, Ausgabe 417, (21.03.2022), doi: 10.31205/RA.417.03 

Jon-Wyatt Matlack: Operation Barbarossa 2021: Practices (Re)Rendering the Myth of the ‘clean’ Wehrmacht in Contemporary Grand Strategy Computer Gaming. In: Frictions (28.07.2021), doi: 10.15457/frictions/0007 

Reviews

Jon-Wyatt Matlack, “Piero Gleijeses, America’s Road to Empire: Foreign Policy from Independence to World War One”, European journal of American studies [Online], Book reviews, Online since 27 February 2023. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/19486; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.19486

Project: Notions of Home in the Far Right “White Genocide” Narrative: A Multinational and Multilingual Approach to Contemporary Far Right Self-Representations in Europe and the Americas

Supervisor: Prof. Dr Volker Depkat

Thalia Prokopiou holds a degree from Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, and a master’s degree in North and Latin American Studies from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (MA The Americas/Las Américas). She has conducted research in the fields of human rights, literature and culture. Alongside her academic pursuits, Thalia has also contributed as an editor and writing coach, honing her skills in communication and analysis.

At the Leibniz ScienceCampus Regensburg, Thalia is developing her interdisciplinary research on contemporary issues of political change and continuity. Her project takes a critical stance on far-right groups and parties, with a focus on comparative methodologies and discourses of power. The central research questions revolve around populist far-right rhetoric in Europe and the Americas with a comparative focus on Greece and the USA. The goal of the project is to dissect the tropes of homeland and analyze the aesthetics, symbols, and metaphors prevalent in far-right political narratives. Her project is characterized by key terms such as homeland, ultranationalism, populist rhetoric, far-right aesthetics and White Supremacy symbolism reflecting her commitment to rigorous analysis and critical engagement with pressing socio-political issues.

Selected Publications

• “Exploring Far-Right Shadows: Navigating disturbing archival material in California and Virginia”. In: Frictions Europe, America and Global Transformations (05.02.2024), doi: 10.15457/frictions/0032 
• “Competing Sovereignties: Intertwinement, Contestation, Evolution”. Report on the 2nd Graduate Workshop Conference of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg. With Nargiza Kilichova. In: Frictions: Europe, America and Global Transformations
• Impressions from the Workshop “Unbuilding binaries: Exploring affective and analytical responses to binary divisions as encountered in the field”. In: Frictions, doi: 10.15457/frictions/0011 . With Drivalda Delia, Frederik Lange, Daniela Mathuber, Eva-Maria Walther, and Vita Zelenska. 18 August 2021.

Selected Presentations

• Sculpting Far-Right Memoryscapes: Far-Right ‘Honor and Memory Ceremonies’”. Paper presentation at the Memory Studies Association 8th Annual Conference Memories in Transit. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú. 18–20 July 2024.
• “Battlegrounds of Memory: Unveiling Far-Right Ultranationalism at War Memorial Sites”. Paper presentation at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism Nationalism and Memory. University of Edinburgh, UK. 9–11th April 2024.
• “Gender Front: White Supremacist Gendered Narratives and Spatial Divides”. Paper presentation at the UC Berkeley Postdoctoral Forum. University of California, Berkeley, USA. 28 September 2023.
• “’Racial Humanism and Ecological Consciousness’: Golden Dawn’s Ecofascist Discourse”. Paper presentation at the 4th Graduate Workshop of the GS OSES Environmental Discourses and Practices in Eastern and Southeastern Europe: Challenges and Opportunities. Regensburg, Germany. 25–27 May 2023.
• “Race, Mysticism and Pseudo-populism in Contemporary White Supremacist Narratives: Examples from Greece and the USA.” Paper presentation at the 9th European Workshops in International Studies. University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki Greece. 7 July 2022.
• “Remembering Antiquity: ‘White identity’, ‘white homeland’ and populism in contemporary alt-right discourses.” Paper presentation at the American Studies Colloquium. Regensburg University, Germany.
  9 December 2021.
• “The Challenges of Digital and Media Ethnographies. ”Collaborative presentation with Lara Saadi & Karen Silva Torres (University of Leipzig) and Vita Zelenska (University of Regensburg) for the series Area Studies Under Discussion: Area Studies and the Challenges of the Digital Era. Universities of Leipzig, Marburg and Regensburg. 18 January 2021. Online.
• “Derechos lingüísticos en México: El acceso al intérprete en el ámbito procesal.“  Poster presentation in Primer Foro de Cultura Indígena: México Multicultural y Plurilingüe. Guanajuato, Mexico, 24–26 Aug 2016.

Conference Co-Organization

• Transnational Memory Cultures and American Studies. 32nd Annual Conference of the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA). Regensburg, Germany, 9–12 November 2022
• Competing Sovereignties: Intertwinement, Contestation, Evolution. 2nd Graduate Workshop of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies in cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern World. Regensburg, Germany, 2–4 December 2022
• Mobilities and Transformations: Perspectives from the Americas. 1st International Conference of RIIA – Interdisciplinary Research Network on the Americas. Erlangen, Germany, 26–28 June 2019.

Scholarships and Grants

• Leibniz ScienceCampus Writing-up Doctoral Research Scholarship (March 2024 – May 2024), Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America in the Modern World" Regensburg.
• Τravel Grant for archival research at the USA (May 2023), Bavarian American Academy.
• Frauenbeauftragte Travel Grant for archival research at the University of California, Berkely, USA (2023), Committee for Equal Opportunities for Women in Science and the Arts, University of Regensburg.
• Leibniz scholarship for doctoral researchers (March 2020 – December 2023), Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America in the Modern World" Regensburg.
• Bavarian Government Scholarship for international master’s students (October – November 2017), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Teaching and Tutoring

• Recorded lecture (September 2022)
  “Neoecofascism: The Green Nuances of the Neofascists./ Neo-Ökofaschismus. Die grünen Schattierungen der Neofaschisten” for the online lecture series (MOOC) Europe and America in the Modern World hosted on the Open Educational Repository of the Virtual University of Bavaria (vhb). https://oer.vhb.org/edu-sharing/components/render/e487e407-4836-4f00-bbd7-2354709b713d?viewType=1&id=15a0c0bc-a60b-4982-8312-583d6ea3d51d
• Hauptseminar co-facilitator (Summer Semester 2021)
  Assisted Prof. Dr. Ger Duijzings in Hauptseminar “Populism, the extreme right and the politics of resentment in the EU”.
• Academic Writing Coach - Student Assistant (April 2018 – March 2019)
  Writing Centre Learning Lab, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

The State and its Students: Hegemonic Structures, Subaltern Pedagogies, and Fractured Community in Bosnia and Chile

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ger Duijzings

Igor Stipić holds an MA in Political and Social Studies from the University of Alberto Hurtado in Santiago de Chile and another MA in Political Economy from the University of Economics in Prague. After finishing his master’s studies, Igor worked for four years as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Köszeg (iASK), where he also lectured on the International Studies MA program at the University of Pannonia (Hungary). Currently, Mr. Stipić is a doctoral candidate in Sociology and Political Anthropology at the University of Regensburg and Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS).

His doctoral research project is titled The State and its Students: Hegemonic structures, subaltern pedagogies and fractured community in Bosnia and Chile. It adopts an ethnographic approach to studying anti-hegemonic high-school social movements in the two societies, while also making both subaltern and critical theory-based contributions for studying social formations known as nation-states. In his work Igor engages with interdisciplinary approaches, combining insights from the fields of sociology, anthropology, and critical theory.  His research focuses on South East Europe and South America.

Selected Publications

Stipić, I. (2022). Whose is Herceg Kosača?: Populist memory politics of constructing the ‘historical people’ in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In Jensen, J. (Ed.). Memory and Populist Politics in Southeastern Europe (upcoming). New York: Routledge.

Stipić, I. (2021). Changing Chile’s Historical Cycle or Radical Comprises? The new President Gabriel Borić. In: Frictions (22.12.2021), doi: 10.15457/frictions/0014 

Stipić, I. (2019). Negotiating Identity: Micro-Politics of Mixing Apples and Pears in the High School of Jajce. In Trajković, D., Prodanović, S. and Draško, G.P. (Eds.). Urge for Engagement: Conditions of social change (139-170). Belgrade: Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory.

Stipić, I. (2018). Constructing the People: Citizen Populism against ethnic hegemony in Bosnia and Herzegovina in light of 2013-2014 protests. Civil societies and social movements in the changing democracies of Central and Eastern Europe ,: 90-110.

Stipić, I. (2017). La autonomía cambiante en los tiempos de PT: Explicando la subida y la caída del Gigante Sudamericano. (Changing Autonomy in times of PT: Explaining the rise and fall of the Southern Giant). Encrucijada Americana 9, 9-31.

Stipić, I. (2017). Ethno Bureaucratic Patrimonialism: The Political Regime of Bosnia-Herzegovina. POLIS 16, 91-116.

With the Science Campus since 2025, Elena Goldhofer is responsible for Science Communication, Outreach and assisting the projects put forward by the Science Campus and its' partners. She is currently finishing her Master's in Romance Language Studies at the University of Regensburg as well as working on a Fast-Track-PhD Dissertation on Indigenous Literatures in Francophone Canada supervised by Prof. Marina O. Hertrampf (University of Passau) and MdC Dr. Franck Miroux (Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour).

Room 045, Sedanstr. 1, 93055 Regensburg
Email: elena.goldhofer@stud.uni-regensburg.de
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Publications

Goldhofer, Elena/Diana, Mistreanu. "À plus forte raison : zoopoétique autochtone et la mise en scène de l'épistémologie relationnelle innue dans la littérature contemporaine au Québec". In Mistreanu, D., Freyermuth, S., Lazar, A., Popa, M. (eds). Bêtes de plume. Cultural Animal Studies, vol 21. J.B. Metzler, 2026, pp. 131-143. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-73029-4_11 

Goldhofer, Elena. "« Parlons-nous » : réception de l’innu-aimun et renversement de l’épistémologie coloniale dans la poésie dialogique de Joséphine Bacon". In Marina Ortrud M. Hertrampf/Diana Mistreanu (éds). Littérature et nations autochtones au Canada francophone, De Gruyter, 2025, pp. 71-86. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111001647-006

Paul Vickers has been coordinator of the ScienceCampus since it was established in September 2019. He joined UR in 2018 as founding manager of the Centre for International and Transnational Area Studies (CITAS), which became DIMAS in 2022. He has degrees from University College London and the University of Glasgow, where he defended his PhD in 2013. A graduate in German and East European Studies, he has published articles and edited volumes in the fields of memory studies, heritage studies, social history, theatre studies and cultural studies.

Room 051, Sedanstr. 1, 93055 Regensburg
Email: paul.vickers@ur.de
Tel: +49 941 943 5964
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Dr. Paul Vickers has been the coordinator of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America since its founding in September 2019. He joined the University of Regensburg in April 2018 as manager of the Center for International and Transnational Area Studies (CITAS), which in 2022 became the Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies (DIMAS), where he was manager until September 2024.

From September 2014 to March 2018 he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus Liebig University, Giessen, where he also taught in the Department of East European History and in the Department of Slavonic Studies.

He gained his PhD in 2013 from the University of Glasgow with a thesis that explored relations between popular autobiography, popular memory, censorship and academic research in relation to the former German territories of postwar Poland. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Reading European Cultures (Slavonic Studies) from the University of Glasgow in 2007. It was during this time that he developed his interest in investigating Polish, German and East European memory cultures that first emerged in the course of his BA in Polish and German Studies at University College London (2002-2006), which including semesters at the University of Hamburg and the University of Wrocław. In 2008 and again between 2012 and 2014 he was a lecturer at the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.

As part of the ScienceCampus, he is a member of the editorial board of the blog-journal Frictions and is coordinating the emerging Areapedia project. He has served as a peer reviewer for journals including Gender & History, Journal of Perpetrator Research, Frontiers of Narrative Studies, and Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich/The Problems of Literary Genres. He has also acted as reviewer for book proposals with Routledge. 

Paul Vickers has also translated scholarly works from Polish to English and German to English, specializing in texts from history, social sciences, theatre studies, biography studies and cultural studies.

Selected Publications

Fiction, Authenticity and Alternative Histories: Time traveling with 1930s punks Hańba!: in Otro maldito homenaje ... Festgabe für Jochen Mecke. Anne-Sophie Donnarieix, Susanne Greilich, Ralf Junkerjürgen, Hubert Pöppel, Dagmar Schmelzer, eds. (Munich: AVM, 2023) pp. 201-212.

Introduction: Heritage under Socialism: Trajectories of Preserving the Tangible Past in Postwar Eastern and Central Europe, Corinne Geering and Paul Vickers, in Heritage under Socialism: Preservation in Eastern and Central Europe, pp. 1-33.

Heritage under Socialism: Preservation in Eastern and Central Europe, 1945–1991, edited by Eszter Gantner, Corinne Geering, and Paul Vickers; New Perspectives on Central and Eastern European Studies, vol. 2. (New York/ Oxford: Berghahn: 2022).

Remembering between Travel and Locatedness: New Horizons in Cultural and Media Memory Studies, co-editor of the Special Issue of the Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, vol. 11, 2019: Supplement 1

Maria Elisabeth Dorr, Astrid Erll, Erin Högerle, Paul Vickers & Jarula M.I. Wegner (2019) Introduction: Travel, locatedness, and new horizons in Memory Studies, Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 11:sup1, DOI: 10.1080/20004214.2019.1690840 

Moving Homes and Homelands on Television: (West) Germany’s Heimat and Poland’s Dom, Oxford German Studies, Band 47, 1, 2018, pp. 103-124. doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2018.1409515 

Vergiss das populäre Gedächtnis nicht. Erinnerungsforschung, Autobiographie und Kulturgeschichte: in Perspektiven der Kulturgeschichte. Gegenstände, Konzepte, Quellen, Benjamin Brendel, Corinne Geering und Sebastian Zylinski, Hrsg. (Trier: VWT, 2018), pp. 167-184.

Constructing a Memory of Polish/Jewish Community in Tadeusz Słobodzianek’s Our Class, in: Polish Literature in Transformation, edited by Ursula Phillips with Knut Andreas Grimstad and Kris Van Heuckelom (Berlin und Zürich: LIT Verlag, 2013), pp. 203-223.

“Czuję się niczym – czy to w Polsce kapitalistycznej, czy Ludowej”: Images of the Polish Father from women’s communist-era memoirs, [“I feel worthless whether Poland is capitalist or a People’s Republic”], in Postawy rodzicielskie współczensnych ojców/ Paternal Attitudes of Modern Fathers, Maria Kujawska and Lidia Huber, Hrsg. (Poznan: WSNHiD, 2010), pp. 48-70.

Staging Memories of Forced Migration in Jan Klata’s Transfer!,Polish Theatre Perspectives, 1 (2010), pp. 199-226.

The Staging of Family Memories of Forced Migration in Jan Klata’s Transfer!, in Rodzina, tożsamość, pamięć/ Family, Identity, Memory, Maria Kujawska, Izabela Skórzyńska and Grażyna Teusz, Hrsg. (Poznan: WSNHiD, 2009), pp. 171-196.

Reviews & Reports

Review: Area Studies at the Crossroads. Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn, Mielke and Hornidge, eds. (2017), for Connections (16.05.2020). PDF available here.

Conference Report: Area Studies in Flux, 27-29 September 2018, UCL for H-Soz-Kult. PDF available here.

Review: Das global vernetzte Dorf by Matthias Kaltenbrunner (2017) for H-Soz-Kult. PDF available here.

“A New Englightenment”, or Cosmopolitan memory yet again. Rezension von Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust Era: The Ethics of Never Again, Alejandro Baer and Natan Sznaider (2017), for Kult Online, vol. 51, 2017.

Review: Memory and Change in Europe: Eastern Perspectives, edited by M. Pakier and J. Wawrzyniak (2016), in Memory Studies, vol. 10, 2 (2017), 232-235.

Review: (A)pollonia: Twenty-First Century Polish Drama and Texts for the Stage, Krystyna Duniec, Joanna Klass, Joanna Krakowska (Hrsg.) (2015) for Pol-Int, Polish Studies. Interdisciplinary (2016).

Review: Empowering Revolution: America, Poland and the End of the Cold War by Gregory F. Domber (2014) for Pol-Int.org, Polish Studies.Interdisciplinary (2016).

Review: Soviet Soft Power in Poland: Culture and the Making of Stalin’s New Empire, 1943-1957 by Patryk Babiracki (2015), in Journal of European Studies, vol. 46, 1 (2016), 93-95.

Europe's periphery at the centre of attention, or: Contextualizing Ukraine - too much, too fast? Rezension von Klaus Bachmann and Igor Lyubashenko (eds): The Maidan Uprising, Separatism and Foreign Intervention: Ukraine's complex transition (2014), in Kult Online, vol. 42, 2015.

Orientalising Eastern Europe: The "semi-periphery" as object and producer of orientalist discourse. Rezension von Ideologies of Eastness in Central and Eastern Europe by Tomasz Zarycki (2014), in Kult Online, vol. 41, 2015.

Review: Okkupation im Osten: Besatzeralltag in Warschau und Minsk 1939–1944, by Stephan Lehnstaedt (2010), in Central Europe, Vol. 9, 2 (2011), 159-161.

Responsibilities at the LSC

• Managing events
• Coordinating the incoming and outgoing fellowship programmes and the visiting professorships
• Communication and PR
• Co-editor of the Frictions Blog
• Supporting doctoral and postdoctoral researchers
• Supporting the research networks
• Coordinating calls for funding
• Budget and finance management