| Main fields of research | - Relationship between ethnic minorities and majorities
- Baltic history (Estonia)
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| Further fields of research | - Theory of nationalism (constructivism)
- Soviet industrial culture and history of the 1930s
- Socialist realism
- Intercultural Management
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| Education | * 2001-2004 Bachelor-studies (Political sciences and Slavonic studies) at the Ruhr University Bochum and at the
Moscow State University of Railway Engineering (MIIT)
* 2004 Bachelor of Arts (Political Sciences and Slavonic studies)
* 2005 half year stay abroad in Novosibirsk/Russia
* 2005-2007 Masters in Political sciences and Russian culture at the Ruhr University Bochum
* 2007 three month research visit in Tallinn / Estonia
* 2007 Master of Arts (Political science and Russian Culture)
* since 2008 PhD-student at the University St.Gallen (PhD-programme Organisation and Culture)
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| Professional Career | * 2001-2007 voluntary activities in different committees of the Ruhr University Bochum
* 2002-2007 student and research assistant at Ruhr University Bochum
* 2005 DaF-lector at the Faculty of Linguistics at the NKI/Novosibirsk
* October 2007 - July 2012 research associate of Prof. Dr. Rolf Peter Sieferle at the Departmant of General History, SHSS, University of St.Gallen
* May 2011 - September 2012 Coordinator - Training & Consulting at the Center of Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE), University of St.Gallen
* since August 2012 research associate of Prof. Dr. Caspar Hirschi at the Departmant of General History, SHSS, University of St.Gallen
* since October 2012 Managing Director - Training & Consulting at the Center of Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE), University of St.Gallen |
| Teaching Activities | History of the Baltic States (Assessment) Mi 10-12 Uhr
Junior Management Training - Intercultural Management
(Executive School of Management, Technology and Law) 03.09.2011 |
| Projects | PhD-Project on
One country - two stories. A comparison of Estonian and Russian Memories in Estonia. |
| Affiliations | Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde e.V. (DGO) |
| Talks | * 22.11.2007 "Personenkult in der Sowjetunion und in Russland" (University of St.Gallen)
* 25.1.2008 "Gesellschaftliche Integration und kulturelle Identität der Russischen Minderheit in Estland" (Ruhr University Bochum)
* 29.01.2009 "Yuri M. Lotman - life signs" (Keele- ja kultuuriseminar „Eestisse, Eestis, Eestist", University of Tallinn)
* 27.11.2009"Der estnische Denkmalstreit - Ausbruch eines lange schwelenden ethnischen Konflikts" (Internationale Konferenz: Die Erfahrung der Freiheit - Auf dem Weg zu einer Kulturgeschichte der Europäischen Revolution 1989/91, RuhrUniversity Bochum)
* 03.02.2011"Ein Land - Zwei Geschichten. Die Erinnerungen von Esten und Russen in Estland im Vergleich" (University of Konstanz)
* 02.04.2011 "Zu jung, um sich zu erinnern? Die Erinnerungen von jüngeren Esten an die Zeit der Estnischen Sozialistischen Sowjetrepublik und ihre Bedeutung für die Gegenwart" (Der Ostseeraum – eine multikulturelle Regionim 19. und 20. Jahrhundert - Tagung für Nachwuchswissenschaftler Akademie Sankelmark)
* 10.06.2011 "The revival of centuries of shared history. Estonian-German relations between 1988 and the middle of the 90s" (Eesti moodsa ajaloo XII konverents, University of Tallinn)
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