Eastern Europe / Russia
Boris Ginzburg
Institute for East European Studies
Politics
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
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Interviews are also possible in Russian language
Areas of Expertise
- post-Soviet region / Russia, Belarus and Ukraine
- German-Russian relations
- political impact of sanctions on autocracies
- Russian and Belarusian opposition in exile
- organized crime in the post-Soviet space
- Israeli foreign and security policy
Theocharis Grigoriadis, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
School of Business & Economics
Institute for East European Studies
Economics
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Comparative economic systems
- Economic history
- Political economics
- Development assistance
Dr. Agnieszka Hudzik
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Theories of literature
- Representations of community in literature and contemporary art
- German-Polish literary and cultural relations
Dr. Elke Kaiser
Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology
Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Archaeology in West Eurasia
- Bronze Age
- Neolithic
- New Stone Age
- Eastern Europe
Dr. Robert Kindler
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
History of Eastern Europe
Garystraße 55, Berlin 14195
Areas of Expertise
- History of Eastern Europe (Russian Empire, Soviet Union, Stalinism, memory culture)
- special regional expertise: Kazakhstan, Siberia, North Pacific
Dr. Sabine Kropp
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Insitute of Political Science
Ihnestraße 22, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Federalism
- Coalitions
- Parliamentarism
- Europeanization
- German policy toward eastern Europe
PD Dr. Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe
Department of History and Cultural Studies
History - Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut
Global History
Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- History of the Holocaust
- History of National Socialism and collaboration
- Second World War
- Ukrainian, Polish and Jewish history
- Anti-Semitism and racism
- transnational fascism
Dr. Tobias Rupprecht
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
Cluster of Excellence ”Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)”
Edwin-Redslob-Straße 29, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- History of Russia and the Soviet Union
- Political economy of state socialism in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and East Asia
- Role of economists in transformation processes
Dr. Tessa Savvidis, Autorenname: Tessa Hofmann
Institute for East European Studies
Department of Sociology
Mainauer Str. 9, II, 12161 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- South Caucasus
- Georgia
- Ossetia
- Abkhazia
- Armenia
- Nagorno-Karabakh
- Policy on minority nationalities
Wolfram Schrettl, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
Institute for East European Studies
Department of Economics
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Economic situation in Russia
- Economy of Eastern Europe
- Economic growth
- European integration
- Economics of motivation
Susanne Strätling
Institute for East European Studies and Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature
Areas of Expertise
- Cultures of Eastern Europe, esp. Russian
- Literatures of Eastern Europe, esp. Russian-language
- Energy Humanities
Dr. Jochen Töpfer
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
Division of Sociology
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Social, political, and economic aspects of the transformation processes in Eastern Europe
- Emphasis on southeastern Europe / former Yugoslavia / Albania
- Privatization
- Informality and neo-feudalism
- Parties and political elites
- Sociology of religion: structures, actors, processes
- Religion and society
- Religion and politics
- Religion and conflict
Dr. Mihai Varga
Institute for East European Studies
Department of Sociology
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Development and economic policies in Eastern Europe
- Social movements, nationalism, and right-wing extremism in Eastern Europe
Martin Wagner
Institute for Eastern Europe
History of Eastern and Central Eastern Europe
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- History of Russia/the Soviet Union, 19th to 21st century
- History of China, 19th to 21st century
- History of relations between China and Russia, 17th to 21st century