Staff
Researchers, teaching staff and other employees:

My current research explores the intersection of identity, religion, and security perceptions in the Western Balkans.
Social Sciences
Doctoral student, Sociology
Social Sciences
ME229B
Social anthropology, Eastern Europe, Urban studies, Memory studies
Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)
MA719

My research is about Deaf experiences in the Health and well-being field and civil society.
Social Sciences
ME004
In my PhD project, I research ways of translating Managed Aquifer Recharge in a way that is practically implementable in a local context. I deal with sustainability in practice.
Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies
MD421B
Hamdija Begovic
Doctoral Student
Doctoral student; political sociology
Social Sciences
ME229B
I conduct research on nationalism, state-building processes, and international affairs.
Social Sciences
Doctoral Student in Sociology. Research focus: Consequences of policiary measures against radical nationalist social movements
Social Sciences
ME229B

I am a PhD student in Environmental Scienes. In my research I study greenhouse gas exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere, specifically in coastal regions.
Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies
MD471
I am a PhD student in History of Ideas since the autumn semester of 2021. In my PhD thesis, I am examining 19th century works on the history of philosophy.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F827
Johanna Björksten
Doctoral student and lecturer at the Department of Social Work. My research concerns intimate partner violence.
Social Sciences
ME004
Doctoral student
Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies
MA712

I am a researcher working on Soviet, European, and Anglo-American modernist literatures in their cultural, scientific, and biomedical contexts.
Culture and Education
MA791

I am researching female wartime nurses that worked in Ottoman and Russian lands in World War I, starting with the Crimean War.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
MA714
I do research on fatherhood, gender and the family in Russia, in a perspective of contemporary history , 1950-1990s,
Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)
MA788
Mikael Cleryd
Doctoral Student
My thesis explores journalists' work-related emotions, how journalists navigate their feelings alongside professional norms and the effect of emotional labor on their well-being.
Social Sciences
ME353

Associate professor and senior lecturer in history
Historical and Contemporary Studies

Research focus: memory politics and peace and conflict studies, particularly in Turkey and the Western Balkans. I also teach courses on nationalism and international co-operation.
Social Sciences
MA713

Principal investigator: Östersjöstiftelsen-funded project The Return of Repressive Psychiatry: Biopolitics of Mental Health in Putinite Russia
Culture and Education
PC224

Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)
MA789

Doctoral Researcher: corporate sustainability- sustainable management- social enterprises- Innovation and entrepreneurship- writing differently
Social Sciences
ME516

Martin Englund
Doctoral Student
My research is about collecting and analyzing life stories from the refugees who came from Poland to Sweden during the antisemitic campaign 1967-1972.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F931

Associate professor in Ethnology, Director of studies of the Baltic and East European Graduate School and officer within the Commission for the Revitalisation of Romani Chib.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
MA721

I am the PI in the project "Maternity in the time of "traditional values" and femonationalism" supported by the ÖSS. I am also research coordinator at CBEES.
Culture and Education
MA722

Doctoral student in Media and Communication Studies / BEEGS. Writing a dissertation on cultural valuation practices, education media and digitization in Sweden and Estonia.
Culture and Education
PC205

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My research concern stone age ceramic craft at wetland sites around the Baltic Sea, in particular Alvastra pile dwelling in Sweden.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F824

My research interests are in political economy, migration and social policy.
Social Sciences
MA795A
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Doctoral Student in archaeology
Historical and Contemporary Studies
MA714
Vit Kysilka
Officer
I am a PhD student in business studies. My research concerns the regulatory development of anti-money laundering supervision in Sweden, Denmark, and Estonia from the 2000s onwards.
Social Sciences
ME516

Nicholas Lawrence
Doctoral Student

Lelde Luik
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
My research interests are radical democratic and post-foundational political thought alongside discursive construction of political subjectivities in Eastern Europe.
Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)
MA791

My research concerns the politization of ethnicity in the Latvian party landscape. I also teach in political science.
Social Sciences
ME611
Political geography, particularly sociopolitical analysis of cross-border contacts History of geopolitics Authochtonous minorities The concept of region The history of geographyy
Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)
MA709

Doctoral researcher in the History of Ideas. My focus is on how time was contextualized in the Baltic Region 1500 to 1800.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F823

I am historian with a research focus on imperial histories of the Baltic Sea region and Eastern Europe.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
MA711
I am Professor in Political Science and International Relations, with a research focus on peace processes. I have a part time position as Research Coordinator at CBEES.
Social Sciences
ME616

I am a Doctoral Student in Environmental Science. My research explores how ideas of just transition are integrated into climate politics and how this impacts people and societies.
Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies
MA712
My doctoral research focuses on the notion of dialectical negativity as it has been reconceptualised by Slavoj Žižek.
Culture and Education
PD223

My main research interests deal with subcultures and religion in contemporary Muslim majority societies. I am currently resaerching the black metal music scene in Turkey.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1001

My research interests include sports, crime prevention, and relationships between civil society, social services and police, particularly in underserved areas.
Police Education
LO547
Nataliia Murashko
Doctoral Student
Ninna Mörner
Editor for the scholarly journal Baltic Worlds and its website, and editor for the CBEES Annual State of the Region Report Series.
Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)
MA793
I study social-spatial inequalities in segregated urban areas and the role of urban planning in advancing environmental and social justice in marginalized communities.
Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies
MD473

My PhD focuses on everyday experiences of crossing boundaries of gender, race and class in Germany among second-generation Vietnamese women artists and intellectuals.
Culture and Education
PC237
I am researching the Swedish foreign policy engagement in the Baltic region, from 1914 to 1945. Both public opinion and the Swedish government's foreign policy are studied.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F931
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Dr.Pejvak Oghazi is Professor and head of department of Business Studies. He is also head of Logistic Program at Sodertorn University, School of Social Sciences.
Social Sciences
MA755C

In my research I explore urban community gardening and its role(s) for/in sustainability in Stockholm and Warsaw and in relation to different conceptualizations of sustainability.
Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies
MD458

My PhD-thesis investigates the links between working conditions and environmental impact of industrial forestry, and the relations between trade unions and environmentalists.
Social Sciences
ME222

Doctoral student in the theory of practical knowledge. I'm writing a thesis on Swedish and Finnish teachers' lived experience of boredom.
Culture and Education
PD229
I am a historian of the Russian Empire, with a particular focus on the Caucasus and Ukraine.
Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)

I research the relational and emotional factors that underlay decision-making processes in agricultural governance.
Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies
MA715

PhD-candidate in Ethnology at the Baltic and Eastern European Graduate School. My research interests include populism, political anthropology, state policies, gender, and identity.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1026


I am researching refugees and entrepreneurship in the Baltics and Eastern Europe, focusing on how it supports economic and social integration despite structural challenges.
Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)
MA793

I am associate professor in Economic history and lecturer in Business Studies at the School of Social Sciences.
Social Sciences
ME429D
Professor of cultural studies, CBEES
Culture and Education
MA792

Project Researcher (Professor, PhD) in Political Science. Focus areas: comparative politics, Central and Eastern Europe, political institutions, executive and presidential power
Social Sciences
ME612

My research interests lie in sustainability accounting and reporting with the focus to examine the role of institutional forces in shaping sustainability reporting in Baltics.
Social Sciences
MA716

I research the interface between knowledge and governance for sustainability transformations: how knowledge, imagination and action are co-produced by diverse actors.
Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies
MD476


My dissertation is an investigation of digital sex labor in webcamming in Russia in the context of the country's neoliberal labor market and the neo-traditionalist sexual politics.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1026

Using archaeological and historical sources, I investigate the pre-modern ecology of the Baltic to form better ecological baselines for managing marine resources, mainly fish.
Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

Doctoral researcher with a thesis on poetry books with visual art from East- and West Germany.
Culture and Education
PC219
Jan Weis
Doctoral Student

I am a Doctoral student in environmental science. My interest is to study the relationships between people's aesthetic perception of landscapes and biodiversity.
Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies
MD266