Global studies of CEE and Eurasia
Historians and social scientists studying the relationship of Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia within global hierarchies (including first world/global north and the Global South), broadly defined
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@chrislashhist.bsky.social
@petrszczepanik.bsky.social
Media industries in East Central Europe | streaming platforms | production studies | Assoc. Prof. at Charles University, Prague
@dacretu.bsky.social
Historian. Assistant Prof. at University of Warwick. Aid, Forced Migration, Modern Europe. My first book available now: https://www.sup.org/books/history/foreign-aid-and-state-building-interwar-romania . Currently writing on refugees, Habsburg Empire, WWI
@ivan-kalmar.bsky.social
Prof U of Toronto. Studying illiberalism, race, periphery: how are these three connected? East and South peripheries of the EU. Jews, Muslims, Islamophobia, antisemitism. Author of White But Not Quite: Central Europe's Illiberal Revolt.
@alexoberlaender.bsky.social
Russian/Soviet history Cultural History of Work History of Sexual Violence History of Emotions associate editor @ Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History OEI/FU Berlin FSO Bremen #skystorians
@piakoivunen.bsky.social
PhD, Senior lecturer in European and World history @UniTurku, Finland. Chair of Finnish Association for Russian and East European Studies @FAREES Russia, Cold War, mega-events, youth & student organisations, oral history, memory politics & museums.
@johanneskleinmann.bsky.social
Historian at ZZF Potsdam | Working on Digital Inequalities | Broader interests: Contemporary Polish History, Gender and labour policy | member @junge_dgo | he/him
@a-s-tompkins.bsky.social
Social and environmental historian of contemporary Europe @ German Historical Institute Warsaw // 🎥 brieflyhistoric 📸 IG:a_s_tompkins 🐶 IG:rowlfderhund
@agatafijalkow.bsky.social
Law & Humanities academic. Book on legal photography. Interested in law & visual culture | Polish war crimes trials & its legal teams. Secret screenwriter | She/her/hers
@olakom.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Maastricht University History, European Integration, Business, Cold War, Poland https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ak-komornicka
@beastofberglund.bsky.social
Historian transplanted from Duluth to Prague | Teaching: Institute of International Studies, Charles Univ | Last book: "Fastest Game in the World: Hockey & the Globalization of Sports" | Next book: Russia & world sport
@drkevorko.bsky.social
IR, International (Dis)Order, Eurasian Politics. Lecturer at @uniexeter.bsky.social. Onetime Liberal. Enemy of Pigeonholes. X refugee. Personal views, Repost ≠ 'Like'. Cosmopolitan mutt: roots in 🇦🇲🇬🇷🇩🇪🇱🇧🇧🇪🇬🇧.
@siobhanhearne.bsky.social
Historian of the Russian Empire & Soviet Union. Currently working on the history of the Soviet Red Cross, 1953-1991. Co-editor of @conteurohistory.bsky.social and @peripheralhist.bsky.social. Author of 'Policing Prostitution' (OUP, 2021).
@aporayskipomsta.bsky.social
Historian. PhD candidate interested in Eastern Europe, Russian empire, suburbs, crime and imperial governance.
@tudzarovska.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in European Politics, Charles Uni| Research Fellow, Academy of Science, CZ| Form.Vis.Fellow, Cambridge Uni, CRASSH|MSCA Fellow, EU Democratic Legitimacy| ARENA🇳🇴 Previously: FCO, 🇬🇧Embassy MKD Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
@loiskalb.bsky.social
PhD candidate at EUI. Working on late/post Soviet urban transformations, mass housing blocks & urban commons
@guesnet.bsky.social
Based in London and Berlin. Modern Jewish history @ University College London, focus Poland/Eastern Central Europe. Co-editor 'Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry', Secretary European Association for Jewish Studies. Stand with Ukraine!
@davidcadier.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow on European Security at IRSEM. Visiting Professor at the College of Europe. Associate Researcher at CERI-Sciences Po https://www.davidcadier.com/
@onurisci.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at Kadir Has University in Istanbul. onurisci.academia.edu
@samueljhirst.bsky.social
Historian, author of *Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939.* Bilkent University, Department of International Relations. https://www.samueljhirst.com
@petramatic.bsky.social
Balkan girl uncovering Non-Aligned histories. Dreamer and doer in a world where the funding is the curator. Educated by ruangrupa, New Art School Modality, Bureau d'Études, and BLOK. 2024 fellow of TheMuseumsLab and Global Cultural Relations.
@cpcs.bsky.social
Communist and Post-Communist Studies (CPCS) is an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal featuring comparative research on current and historical developments in the communist and post-communist world. Editor: Paul Goode (@jpaulgoode.bsky.social)
@jpaulgoode.bsky.social
Russia, Eurasia, nationalism, propaganda, autocracy Editor of Communist and Post-Communist Studies (@cpcs.bsky.social) Co-lead of East European & Transatlantic Network (@eetn.bsky.social) McMillan Chair of Russian Studies, EURUS, Carleton University
@piroskadora.bsky.social
International Political Economy, banking and finance, Eastern Europe, Associate Prof at the International Relations Department, Central European University, Vienna
@kjezowska.bsky.social
Historian of Central Eastern Europe. Socialist things, industrial exhibitions and cultural bureaucracies. Also @SHERAart.bsky.social
@egozdziak.bsky.social
Migration scholar, anthropologist, Kdrama addict, novel reader, mom to one human and two canines bloging at https://www.elzbietagozdziak.com/ https://www.goodbeginnings.blog/
@jcbretan.bsky.social
PhD at University of Cambridge on modernism, East-Central Europe & political geography. Research assistant for the Baltic Geopolitics Programme, Centre for Geopolitics. Words in The TLS, The Public Domain Review, Engelsberg Ideas, The Arts Desk & more.
@richmondbridge.bsky.social
Edited The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans (2025) and co-edited Off White: Central/Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024). Eurovision research since longer than I can remember. She/her.
@paulinakewes.bsky.social
Prof. of English Literature, Jesus College, Univ. of Oxford. E-m British & European literature, history, & political thought; succession; parliamentary culture & Indigenous assemblies. Pole in GB; pro-Ukraine; contra anti-Semitism. All views mine alone.
@aultjuli.bsky.social
Associate Professor, University of Utah. German, Central and Eastern European History. Environmental and Transnational History.
@juliedeschepper.bsky.social
Cultural & art historian of (Post-)Soviet Russia Assistant Professor in Heritage and Museum Studies - Utrecht University (Post-)Socialist Heritage I Socialist Material Culture I Global Iconoclasm I Weaponization of Heritage in Ukraine
@jcaf.bsky.social
Historian of Eastern Europe. Lover of random, untold histories. Explorer of the last days of state socialism. ERC Project: Perestroika from Below ZZF Potsdam, CEU Vienna
@klyszcz.bsky.social
Russian foreign policy │ Research Fellow ICDS │ Tallinn, Estonia │ ivanklyszcz.com
@samkra.bsky.social
St Andrews History PhD. Researches #Baltic #CEE ethnopolitics. Views my own. Reposts ≠ endorsements.
@monikakubova.bsky.social
PhD from Central European University | Historical IR and Eastern European politics | Working on a conceptual history of neutrality
@lakirsch.bsky.social
Historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. International communism, the Spanish civil war, transnational networks, gender, war & memory, childhood. Never pass up unusual travel opportunities.
@elainekelly.bsky.social
Music historian @University of Edinburgh | East Germany, 2nd-3rd World musical relations, cultural diplomacy Current book project: Music and Anti-Imperial Solidarity: East Germany and the Third World
@catherinegibson.bsky.social
Historian of Eastern Europe at the University of Tartu working on intra-imperial solidarities (ERC-EMPSOLID https://empsolid.ee/) and entanglements (ETAG https://sisu.ut.ee/entangledborderlands/). Author of Geographies of Nationhood (OUP 2022).
@bohdanakurylo.bsky.social
Ukrainian academic in the UK | LSE Fellow in Qualitative Methodology | PhD from UCL SSEES | Research: security, critical IR & post-Soviet politics: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/People/Academic-Staff/Bohdana-Kurylo/Bohdana-Kurylo
@maxinedavid.bsky.social
Brit abroad. Critical friend of the EU. Foreign Policy analyst (EU, Russia, UK, US) at Leiden University. Teaching = my way of not despairing about the world. Of course they're my views.
@jeffkopstein.bsky.social
Historian, social scientist, low talent fitness fanatic. Dean's Professor of Political Science. UCI Recent book: *The Assault on the State* https://www.amazon.com/Assault-State-Global-Government-Endangers/dp/1509563156/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.U0B_8
@priskakomaromi.bsky.social
On parental leave. Historian of gender, sexuality and sex work in Central Eastern Europe. PhD in progress on transnational sex tourism/ masculinity/ transactional intimacy in state-socialist Hungary. HU Berlin.
@carotaratko.bsky.social
historian | food security, autarky, and environment in modern german and international history | emmy noether research group leader @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social
@marekeby.bsky.social
Epidemics, environments, science, and state power in the USSR. History PhD from NYU, studying malaria in Central Asia. Canadian in the US.
@besnikpula.bsky.social
Political economist & social theorist, currently researching computation, knowledge, phenomenology | Author of books | Associate Prof @ Virginia Tech Political Science & Director, International Studies | besnikpula.com | Personal account
@alexanderleistner.bsky.social
post-doc in sociology | university of leipzig | project leader | research network “The Contested Legacy of 1989“ http://erbe89.de | taskforce www.waysacrossthecountry.de @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social #firstgen "Für ein offnes Land mit freien Menschen."
@quinnslobodian.com
Historian of bad ideas. Out now: HAYEK'S BASTARDS: https://bookshop.org/p/books/hayek-s-bastards-race-gold-iq-and-the-capitalism-of-the-far-right-quinn-slobodian/21814849?ean=9781890951917 quinnslobodian.com
@alexspalinska.bsky.social
IR theory, world order, non-state actors, polity formation, new medievalism, postmodernity. Assistant Professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Research Associate at the University of Sussex, and a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute.
@jeremymorris.bsky.social
Write and research on Russia. Work at Aarhus University, but opinions my own, not those of employer.
@magdalenakozlowska.bsky.social
academia & ngo (or in the reverse order); writing in my own name; she/her; book on orientalism and Eastern Europe published with @berghahnbooks in 2022
@johannamellis.bsky.social
Ex-D1 swimmer, historian. @endofsportpod.bsky.social. Writing on Hungarian sportspeople, state socialism, & IOC’s imperialism in the Cold War. she/her. Anti-DeSantis. IG jojomellis for outfits
@marta-zboralska.bsky.social
Art historian. Currently working on a book about visual art and Witold Gombrowicz
@jelenasubotic.bsky.social
I play tennis and I write books. I hate pickleball. https://jsubotic.com
@timothynunan.bsky.social
Historian | International history, global development, Cold War and decolonization | Professor at Univ. Regensburg | Author of "Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan," now working on Shi'a Islamism | Views my own.
@kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social
Reader (Associate Prof), City St Georges, University of London. IOs, international inequalities, international security (including Russia's war against Ukraine), peacekeeping. http://kseniya-oksamytna.com
@ljukic.bsky.social
Reading and writing https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/central-europe/
@aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
Political sociologist @sussex.ac.uk, writing on #racialisation, political economy of race-making, east-west inequalities in Europe, #migration, political resistance: Reader in #Sociology & Director @sei-sussex.bsky.social
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social
Romanian/German sociologist, Head of School od the Global Studies Program @UniFreiburg, writes about global inequalities, empire, race, citizenship & forgotten Europes https://tinyurl.com/wbt9wyrm
@arturbanaszewski.bsky.social
• PhD Researcher in Intellectual History, European University Institute • 20th century, Cold War, Marxism, Liberalism, Eastern Europe • Convenor @inthiseui.bsky.social • Graduate Associate @gpolthought.bsky.social • Formerly @jhideas.bsky.social
@tomjunes.bsky.social
Historian, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. Based in Poland and Bulgaria, my work focuses on Central and Eastern European politics and history. https://politic.edu.pl/faculty/tom-junes-ph-d/
@benvanzee.bsky.social
Max Weber Fellow @EUI | History PhD @UChicago | Modern Germany, Poland, East Central Europe | Migration and Empire
@historyned.bsky.social
Historian of international crime, international law, human rights and the illiberal right in Germany at ZZF Potsdam. Also teaching at FU Berlin. he/him. Principal Investigator: #OtherGlobalGermany and #il_liberal
@terezahendl.bsky.social
Philosopher / global (health) justice, East-West inequalities and hierarchies of knowledge / anticolonial & CEE feminisms and art / she/they/Dr RUTA Association (Board Member), CEE Feminist Research Network, IRG-GHJ
@pilabuda.bsky.social
. Central European University, Prof Int'l Law & Int'l Relations . www.patryklabuda.com . International (criminal) law, peace and security, global history . Global South-East(ern Europe) relations .
@alexandraancite.bsky.social
Senior Fellow @CEU Democracy Institute and Research Affiliate @Refugee Law Initiative, University of London. Migration, asylum and human rights 📓Author of The Concept of Marriages of Convenience in EU Free Movement Law: EU and UK Perspectives (Brill,2024)
@cosovschi.bsky.social
Historian of Southeast Europe and the global Cold War. Postdoctoral researcher at the École française d'Athènes. Editor at the Programming Historian. Language nerd. 📍Athens/Paris https://acosovschi.com/
@radchenko.bsky.social
Historian of the Cold War and after. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. The author of “To Run the World.”
@rekakrizmanics.bsky.social
Historian, PhD. Akad. Rätin a.Z./Asst. Prof. @unibielefeld Writing a book on women│global│solidarity│state socialism. Posts on events, lit, job calls, and ongoing research. Parttime feminist killjoy, fulltime foodie. Runner, biker, overthinker.
@jamesamark.bsky.social
Historian. Uni of Exeter. Off White. Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024); Socialism Goes Global (2022) https://arch-history.exeter.ac.uk/history/profile/index.php?username=jamark
@chrislashhist.bsky.social
Historian of Poland and CEE in the world based in Warsaw, Poland. Might be the odd political skeet here and there. Private views