EKATERINA EMELIANTSEVA KOLLER

Ekaterina Emeliantseva Koller has been an SNSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Marie Heim-Vögtlin Grant) at the University of Zurich since 2015 and part-time lecturer in History since 2014 at the Universities of Zurich and St. Gallen. Previously she was part-time lecturer in Modern History at Bangor University/ Wales, UK (2010-2013), Teaching and Research Assistant at the Division for East European History of the University of Zurich (2003-2008) and Research Assistant at the History Department of the University of Basel (2001-2004). She obtained her PhD in East European History at the University of Basel after studying East European History, Slavic Philology and Modern German Literature in Freiburg/Br., Cologne, and Bonn.

Current Research Project:

Flexible Socialism of the Brezhnev era: People, institutions, and emotions in the closed city of Severodvinsk. Summary.

News:

January 2017
International Exploratory Workshop “Cultures of Secrecy in Soviet Life”, 25th-27th January 2017, Zurich. Programme.

Research Interests:

• Late Soviet Union
• Rural/Urban history of the Soviet Union
• Cold War and Military History
• History of Sports in Russia and the Soviet Union
• Approaches to Cultural History/Historiograpy
• Material Culture
• Culture of Emotions
• Religious Groups in Eastern Europe (18th/19th c.)
• Jewish History in Eastern Europe

List of Publications