Staff

Acting director: Per Bolin

Administrative staff: Vit Kysilka

Director of Studies: Florence Fröhlig

Researchers, teaching staff and other employees:

Cvetanka Aleksandroska

Cvetanka Aleksandroska

Doctoral Student

International Relations and Security Studies. My current research explores the intersection of identity, religion, and security perceptions in the Western Balkans.

Social Sciences

Mattias Alvarsson

Mattias Alvarsson

Doctoral Student

Doctoral student, Sociology

Social Sciences

ME229B

Anna Balazs

Anna Balazs

Social anthropology, Eastern Europe, Urban studies, Memory studies

Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)

MA719

Luisa Bandeira Coelho

Luisa Bandeira Coelho

Doctoral Student

My research is about Deaf experiences in the Health and well-being field and civil society.

Social Sciences

ME004

Helen Barbosa

Helen Barbosa

Doctoral Student

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

Mark Bassin

Mark Bassin

Professor

Senior researcher

Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)

MA717

Hamdija Begovic

Hamdija Begovic

Doctoral Student

Doctoral student; political sociology

Social Sciences

ME229B

Christofer Berglund

Christofer Berglund

I conduct research on nationalism, state-building processes, and international affairs.

Social Sciences

Sofia Beskow

Sofia Beskow

Doctoral Student

Doctoral Student in Sociology. Research focus: Consequences of policiary measures against radical nationalist social movements

Social Sciences

ME229B

Thea Bisander

Thea Bisander

Doctoral Student

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

Fredrik Bjarkö

Fredrik Bjarkö

Doctoral Student

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

Johanna Björksten

Doctoral student and lecturer at the Department of Social Work. My research concerns intimate partner violence.

Social Sciences

ME004

Erik Browaldh

Erik Browaldh

Doctoral Student

Doctoral student

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MA712

Asiya Bulatova

Asiya Bulatova

PhD

Researcher

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

Culture and Education

MA791

Cansu Cakir

Cansu Cakir

Doctoral Student

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

Helene Carlbäck

Helene Carlbäck

Associate Professor

Researcher

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

Mikael Cleryd

Doctoral Student

Doctoral researcher

Culture and Education

PD225

Victoria Colesnic

Victoria Colesnic

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

Cagla Demirel

Cagla Demirel

Officer

Research interests: Competitive victimhood, conflict, peace, reconciliation.

Social Sciences

MA713

Dmitrii Dorogov

Dmitrii Dorogov

PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Political researcher at CBEES and lecturer at SH Gender Studies broadly interested in authoritarian biopolitics with a focus on Putinism.

Culture and Education

PC224

Joakim Ekman

Joakim Ekman

Professor

Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)

MA789

Mounia El hajjari Borg

Mounia El hajjari Borg

Doctoral Student

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

Social Sciences

ME516

Martin Englund

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

Vera Ericson von Bahr

Vera Ericson von Bahr

Doctoral Student

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1004

Fakhreddin F Rad

Fakhreddin F Rad

Doctoral Student

Hugo Faber

Hugo Faber

Doctoral Student

PhD student. My research concerns energy politics and the phasing out of nuclear and fossil energy.

Social Sciences

ME616

Florence Fröhlig

Florence Fröhlig

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

I am assistant professor in Ethnology, Director of studies of the Baltic and East European Graduate School. officer within the Commission for the Revitalisation of Romani chib.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

MA721

Yulia Gradskova

Yulia Gradskova

Associate Professor

Researcher

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

Saga Hansén

Saga Hansén

Doctoral Student

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

Johan Hegardt

Johan Hegardt

PhD

Researcher

I am a researcher in different projects.

Culture and Education

Nathalie Hinders

Nathalie Hinders

Doctoral Student

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

Wilhelm Hultin

Wilhelm Hultin

Doctoral Student

My research interests are in political economy, inequality, migration and the welfare state.

Social Sciences

MA795A

Matilda Jarl

Matilda Jarl

Doctoral Student

Doctoral Student in archaeology

Historical and Contemporary Studies

MA714

Rositsa Kratunkova

Rositsa Kratunkova

Doctoral Student

Social Sciences

MA716

Vit Kysilka

Vit Kysilka

Officer

Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)

MA724

Agnes Käll

Agnes Käll

Doctoral Student

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

ME551

Tora Lane

Tora Lane

Associate Professor

Researcher

Culture and Education

MA719

Nicholas Lawrence

Nicholas Lawrence

Doctoral Student

Lelde Luik

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

Gustav Lundberg

Gustav Lundberg

Doctoral Student

My research concerns the politization of ethnicity in the Latvian party landscape. I also teach in political science.

Social Sciences

ME512

Thomas Lundén

Thomas Lundén

Professor

Researcher

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

Jay Lunze

Jay Lunze

Doctoral Student

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

Julia Malitska

Julia Malitska

PhD

Researcher

I am historian with a research focus on imperial histories of the Baltic Sea region and Eastern Europe.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

MA711

Johanna Mannergren

Johanna Mannergren

Professor

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

Josefina Marklund

Josefina Marklund

Doctoral Student

I am a Doctoral Student in Environmental Science. My research focuses on how principles of justice are integrated into climate poliics and how this affects people and societies.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MA712

Payam Masarrat

Payam Masarrat

Doctoral Student

My doctoral research focuses on the notion of dialectical negativity as it has been reconceptualised by Slavoj Žižek.

Culture and Education

PD223

Douglas Mattsson

Douglas Mattsson

Doctoral Student

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

Tony Mickelsson Blomqvist

Tony Mickelsson Blomqvist

Senior Lecturer

My research interests include sports, crime prevention, and relationships between civil society, social services and police, particularly in underserved areas.

Police Education

LO547

Francesca Morini

Francesca Morini

Doctoral Student

Oldouz Nejadibabadaei

Oldouz Nejadibabadaei

Doctoral Student

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

Nha Nguyen

Nha Nguyen

Doctoral Student

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

Iwo Nord

Iwo Nord

I am a PhD-student as well as teacher in Gender Studies. My doctoral project is an ethnographic study of Belgrade as a local and global place for medical transition.

Culture and Education

Oscar Nygren

Oscar Nygren

Doctoral Student

I am researching the Swedish foreign policy engagement in the Baltic region, from 1914 to 1940. Both public opinion and the Swedish government's foreign policy are studied.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F931

Pejvak Oghazi

Pejvak Oghazi

Professor

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

ME547

Nikolina Oreskovic

Nikolina Oreskovic

Doctoral Student

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

Ella Petrini

Ella Petrini

Doctoral Student

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

Jennie Plate Blomberg

Jennie Plate Blomberg

Doctoral Student

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

Olena Podolian

Olena Podolian

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Oleksandr Polianichev

Oleksandr Polianichev

PhD

Researcher

I am a historian of the Russian Empire, with a particular focus on the Caucasus and Ukraine.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

MA711

Emek Rahte

Emek Rahte

Visiting Research Fellow

I am a visiting researcher in Media and Communication Studies Department. My research interests are media ethnography, feminist theory and critical cultural studies.

Culture and Education

Sarah Ramsay

Sarah Ramsay

Doctoral Student

I research the relational and emotional factors that underlay decision-making processes in agricultural governance.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MA715

Aleksandra Reczuch

Aleksandra Reczuch

Doctoral Student

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

Jane Ruffino

Jane Ruffino

Doctoral Student

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F801

Sanita Rugina

Sanita Rugina

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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

Maria Rybnikova

Maria Rybnikova

Doctoral Student

Social Sciences

MA795B

Paulina Rytkönen

Paulina Rytkönen

Senior Lecturer

I am associate professor in Economic history and lecturer in Business Studies at the School of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences

ME429D

Irina Sandomirskaja

Irina Sandomirskaja

Professor

Professor of cultural studies, CBEES

Culture and Education

MA792

Rebecca Schlottau

Rebecca Schlottau

Doctoral Student

Doctoral student

Culture and Education

PD223

Thomas Sedelius

Thomas Sedelius

Researcher

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

Social Sciences

ME612

Hira Shahid

Hira Shahid

Doctoral Student

Doctoral student

Social Sciences

MA716

Tatiana Sokolova

Tatiana Sokolova

Doctoral Student

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

MD266

Patrick Spets

Patrick Spets

Doctoral Student

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD439

Victor Trofimov

Victor Trofimov

Doctoral Student

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

Oscar Törnqvist

Oscar Törnqvist

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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.

Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)

Benjamin Wagner

Benjamin Wagner

Doctoral Student

Doctoral researcher

Culture and Education

PC219

Jan Weis

Jan Weis

Doctoral Student

Doctoral Student

Social Sciences

MA795A

Kseniia Zakharova

Kseniia Zakharova

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