Postdoctoral Fellowships
Since 2014 Center for Historical Research has been participating in the Postdoctoral Fellowships Programmes of the Higher School of Economics: International Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme and Russian Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme.
Cleto Junior Pinto de Abreu
Research Fellow
Cleto Junior Pinto de Abreu earned his dissertation in 2021 at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and joined the Centre for Historical Research in 2023. His research focuses on the anthropology of religion, with a particular emphasis on Brazilian evangelicals. His Ph.D. thesis explored how Protestant organizations became involved in philanthropic work to combat poverty and expanded their influence in the public sphere through various strategies, including the development of networks alongside churches and the creation of a civic language for their missionaries.
Daria Tereshina
Research Fellow
Daria Tereshina was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Historical Research in 2023-24. Her doctoral thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany, focused on the study of moral economy of family businesses in Russia, based on a year of fieldwork conducted in Smolensk. The research unpacks the values, moral ideas and sentiments that underlie the everyday workings of small family-based enterprises. Currently Daria is continuing her investigation into family businesses, focusing on how an engagement in these enterprises affects the local constructions of kinship relatedness and belonging in Russia, in the framework of the Centre's project "Economic anthropology of household in contemporary Russia outside metropolitan areas" funded by the RSF.
Mikhail Belan
Visiting Lecturer
Mikhail Belan joined the Centre for Historical Research in 2023. His research focuses on the interactions between urban commoner social groups such as merchants and meshchane, their political intstitutes (dumas and magistrates), the state agents (the ministries, central and local authorities), and the military in the towns of the Russian Northwest (St. Petersburg, Novgorod provinces) in the period of the Napoleonic Wars (1790s-1810s) and after it. He earned his Candidate of Historical Sciences degree from the Lomonosov MSU and his Ph.D. in History from the University of Oxford.
Ksenia Rodionova
Research Fellow
Ksenia Rodionova joined the Centre for Historical Research in 2023. Her dissertation, defended at the Far Eastern Federal University in 2022, focused on the religious minorities of Harbin in the Far East. Ksenia aimed to highlight the confessional diversity of the region at the beginning of the twentieth century, as well as to examine the regulatory measures imposed by the authorities. Her work was recognized as the best research in the field of Religious Studies by Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie and later published under the title "Harbin. Faith and Alienation: Christian Minorities of the Northeastern Russian Diaspora" (M.: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2024).
Pietro Shakarian joined the Centre for Historical Research in 2022 as a part of the HSE University postdoctoral fellowship programme in Global Histories of Empire. He earned his Ph.D. in History at The Ohio State University. He previously worked as a lecturer in history at the American University of Armenia in Yerevan. Pietro is currently focused on expanding his Ph.D. dissertation into a full-fledged monograph. The work, entitled An Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev’s Kremlin, explores the major role of Anastas Mikoyan in Soviet nationality policy reform and de-Stalinization during the era of Nikita Khrushchev's Thaw. The study is based on extensive archival research, drawing on materials in both the Russian and Armenian languages from various archives in Moscow and Yerevan.
Pietro Shakarian in the research seminar of the Center for Historical Research
Aleksandra Kasatkina joined the Centre for Historical Research in 2021 after finishing a postdoctoral program in the University of Zürich. She defended her dissertation on the ethnography of Russian dacha talks in 2019 in the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences. Her research interests lie in the field of linguistic anthropology, performativity and polyphony of communication, specifically in research interviews. Aleksandra is currently developing two research projects: semiotic approach to the late Soviet bureaucratic documents and contemporary Russian household economies in the mirror of oral communication. Her recent publications appeared in Laboratorium and Etnograficheskoe obozrenie.
Xenia Cherkaev
Xenia Cherkaev joined the Centre for Historical Research in 2020. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University and is working on two projects: one about the customary use-rights inherent in socialist property law; another about the Soviet and Russian governance of domestic animals. Her essays and articles have appeared in The American Historical Review, Environmental Humanities, Cahiers du mode russe, NLO, Ab Imperio, Sotsiologia Vlasti, Anthropology and Humanism, and the Society for Cultural Anthropology’s editor-invited “Fieldsights” section.
Working at the Center for Historical Research in the pandemic: Nadezhda Tikhonova and Xenia Cherkaev share their experience; Center for Historical Research welcomes new postdocs for 2020/21 academic season
Nadezhda Tikhonova
Nadezhda Tikhonova joined the Centre for Historical Researchin September 2020 as a part of the HSE University Russian postdoctoral fellowship programme. In 2019 she successfully defended her PhD thesis “The Crimean Tatar ‘Perevodchik-Terjiman’ newspaper and its role in Russia’s political and ethnocultural discourse in the 1880s-1910s”. Nadezhda was working on the project “Post-imperial diversities: majority-minority relations in the transition from empire to nation-states”. Her working languages are Russian, English, German, Turkish and Turki.
Working at the Center for Historical Research in the pandemic: Nadezhda Tikhonova and Xenia Cherkaev share their experience; Center for Historical Research welcomes new postdocs for 2020/21 academic season
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Ksenia Maksimovtsova joined the Center for Historical Research in September 2019 where she was working on the project "Post-Imperial Diversities. A Relationship between Majority and Minorities". In May 2018 she successfully defended her doctoral dissertation at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Germany. Her book "Language Conflicts in Contemporary Estonia, Latvia, and Ukraine. A Comparative Analysis of Public Debates in Post-Soviet Russian-Language Digital Media", which appeared out of her dissertation in May 2019, presents a cross-cultural qualitative and quantitative analysis of publications in leading Russian-language blogs and news websites of these three post-Soviet states during the period of 2004–2017.
What Does It Mean to Be a Postdoc at HSE? Experience of Ksenia Maksimovtsova?
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Wiktor Marzec
Wiktor Marzec joined the Centre for Historical Research in 2018 after earning his PhD at the University Budapest. With his research topic "The Revolution That Did Not Happen. Rebellion and Reaction in the Post-Imperial Borderlands 1905-1921: Poland and Finland in Asymmetrical Comparison" he became an indispensible staff member of the ERA.Net project "Post-imperial diversity".
Wiktor Marzec in the research seminar of the Center for Historical Research
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Dominic Martin
Dominic Martin joined HSE as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Historical Research in 2017 and holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University (UK). His PhD was based on more than a year's worth of ethnographic and archival research on Old Believers in Russia’s Far East. During his postdoctoral fellowship at HSE, Dominic was focused on two research projects: firstly, on the current descendants of Old Believers, who lived in Manchukuo in the 1930s and 1940s; and, secondly, on the post-Soviet revival of Cossackdom.
Being a postdoc at HSE Center for Historical Research: Dominic A. Martin
Dominic A. Martin. Loyal to god: Old Believers, oaths and orders // History and Anthropology. 2017. Vol. 28. No. 4. P. 477-496.
Anton Kotenko
Anton Kotenko received his PhD in 2014 from University in Budapest, where he defended his doctoral dissertation “The Ukrainian project in search of national space, 1861–1914.” In 2014 - 2017 Anton was a Junior Research Fellow at the Centre, and was working on turning the dissertation into a book. His academic interests include history of European modernity, nationalism and science in the nineteenth – first half of the twentieth century.
Kotenko A. Imagining Modern Ukraїnica // Ab imperio. 2015. No. 1. P. 519-526.
Matthias Battis
Battis M. The Aryan Myth and Tajikistan: From a Myth of Empire to one of National Identity // Ab imperio. 2016. No. 4. P. 155-183.
Gayle Lonergan
Gayle Lonergan earned her PhD at the University of Oxford in 2010 with a doctoral thesis dealing with the Russian Civil War: "The Paper Communists: the Party and Peasantry in the Russian Civil War (1918-1921)". She joined the Center for Historical Research as Junior Research Fellow.
Lonergan G. Where Was the Conscience of the Revolution? The Military Opposition at the Eighth Party Congress (March 1919) // Slavic Review. Vol. 74. No. 4 (Winter 2015). P. 832-849.
Tanya Zaharchenko
Tanya Zaharchenko joined the Center for Historical Research as Junior Research Fellow. She earned her PhD in Slavonic Studies in 2014 at the University of Cambridge with a thesis on collective post-soviet memory in the contemporary literature of Eastern Ukraine and the borderlands, specifically in the city of Kharkiv with its hybrid identity. Her Master thesis dealing with oppositional trends within the Russian rock music was defended in 2007 at the University of Oxford.
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