Research

Olga Zaitseva-Herz is a scholar, educator, composer, and artist with a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Alberta. Her current research explores the historical trajectories and contemporary functions of Ukrainian music in diaspora, with a particular focus on Canada.

Jan Daniluk is a historian at the University of Gdańsk. His research explores the history of Poland and the history of the 20th century. At the ScienceCampus, his research focuses on the multifaceted phenomenon of gambling, with particular emphasis on its most advanced and institutionalized form, namely casinos during the interwar period and World War II.

Kira Thurman is an Associate Professor in the Departments of History, Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Musicology at the University of Michigan. Her research explores modern Central European History as well as Musicology and Black Studies. Her project at the ScienceCampus investigates the rise of Black Europeans in popular music from World War II through the early 1990s.

Karin Roginer Hofmeisterová is a post-doctoral researcher, lecturer in Holocaust Studies, and coordinator of the Malach Centre for Visual History at Charles University in Prague. Her latest research project delves into post-secular memories of displacement in the context of contemporary migration challenges, a topic that resonates with the Practices of Belonging research module of the ScienceCampus.

Jeffrey Veidlinger is the Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Michigan Joseph Brodsky and Professor of History and Judaic Studies. At the ScienceCampus, he is working on his current book Israel's American Zion: Israel Zangwill, Jacob Schiff and the Search for a Jewish Homeland in the Great Plains, which examines how, in the first decades of the twentieth century, the British Jewish novelist Israel Zangwill and the American Jewish banker Jacob Schiff sought to redirect Jewish migration from the Russian Empire to the American West.

Claudia Sadowski-Smith is professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University. At the ScienceCampus, she continues her research on Ukrainian refugee migration to Germany and the United States, with particular attention to government policy and the role of advocacy and diaspora organizations.

Robert C Austin is a specialist in East Central and Southeastern Europe in historic and contemporary perspective at the University of Toronto. In talks and similar events at the ScienceCampus, he builds from a workshop on the topic Making Bad History, looking into case studies on Hungary, Kosovo and Serbia.

Marta V. Vicente is a historian and theorist of gender and sexuality at the University of Kansas, with over two decades of research and teaching in feminist, queer, and transgender studies. Her presentation at the ScienceCampus explores the importance of understanding transgender as a process shaped by both national and international dynamics, addressing the history of transgender and its importance to understand contemporary notions of gender from a global perspective.

Jakub Eberle is an Associate Professor at the Institute of International Studies at Charles University in Prague. His research explores foreign policy, Czech and German politics, and, most recently, EU digital sovereignty from the perspective of Central and Eastern Europe.

Vitaly Chernetsky is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas. One of the key areas of his current research is the experience of Ukrainian refugees in the Displaced Persons (DP) camps in western Germany after World War II. His talk at the ScienceCampus investigates the linkages between literary representations of Ukrainian DP experiences in the 1940s and those that address the Ukrainian refugee experience since 2022.

Magdalena Joanna Nowak is an Associate Professor at the Institute of History at the University of Gdańsk. Her research explores the history of Polish-Ukrainian relations in Central and Eastern Europe as well as in North America. At the ScienceCampus, she is proposing a Workshop on the sources for the history of Polish-Ukrainian Relations in the 19th–21st Centuries.

Dietrich Harlan Earnhart is a full professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Kansas. His research explores business performance in the United States of America (USA), the Czech Republic, and Germany. At the ScienceCampus, he examines the effects of environmental protection policies on regulated companies' financial and environmental performance in both the USA and Germany.

Keith Brown is the Director of the Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies, and a Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. His work focuses on the history, culture and politics of the Western Balkans, with a particular emphasis on 20th century Macedonia.

Marike Janzen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic, German, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas and Director of the Max Kade Center for German-American Studies. Her research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century German literature, migration and refugee experiences, and comparative world literature. At the ScienceCampus, she taught a summer seminar on "Citizens, Refugees, Humans."

Jacquelyn Eidson is a Fulbright Specialist at the University of Kansas with over 25 years of experience in strategy, fiscal management, and higher education. She directs the National Higher Education Benchmarking Institute. At the ScienceCampus, she collaborates with Prof. Dr. Thomas Steger's team on equity, diversity, and inclusion in businesses and institutions.

Irina Garbatzky is an essayist and researcher at the intersection of literary studies and cultural studies, focusing on archives, performance, and Latin American poetry. She holds a PhD from Rosario National University and is an Independent Researcher at CONICET. At the ScienceCampus, she taught El archivo del Este en la literatura latinoamericana actual.

Anna Holian is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University specializing in cultural and social history of 20th-century Europe, particularly Germany and postwar reconstruction. Her research focuses on Jewish survivors' economic activities and community-building in postwar Germany, and Eastern European refugees in post-WWII Germany. She held a fellowship at the ScienceCampus Graduate School.

Diana Mishkova is Director of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia and Associate Professor at Sofia University. A member of Academia Europaea, she specializes in modern and contemporary Southeastern European history, historiography, nationalism, and identity politics. Her public talk at the ScienceCampus was "Practicing Transnational History" (co-presented with Roumen Daskalov).

Diana Georgescu is a Lecturer in Transnational/Comparative Southeast European Studies at SSEES, University College London. Her research focuses on international youth exchanges during the late Cold War, socialist youth movements, and cultural diplomacy. At the ScienceCampus, she presented "Child Ambassadors: International Youth Camps and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global Cold War (1960s–1980s)".

Alexander Reisenbichler is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and Research Director at the Joint Initiative of German and European Studies. His research examines the political economy of housing, financial, and labor markets in advanced economies, with an emphasis on Western Europe and the US. He presented his forthcoming book Through the Roof: Housing, Capitalism, and the State in America and Germany at the ScienceCampus.

Jeannette Eileen Jones is Carl A. Happold Associate Professor of History and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She specializes in United States history, American engagement with Africa, African American Studies, and digital humanities. Author of In Search of Brightest Africa: Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884–1936.

Anna Mazurkiewicz is a historian at the University of Gdańsk with research interests in Polish-American relations, Cold War history, and the history of Polish emigration to the United States.

Jean-Marc Moura is a professor at the University of Paris-Nanterre specializing in Francophone literature and postcolonial studies. He visited the ScienceCampus twice, contributing to research on transregional literary and cultural exchange.

Ronald Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. His scholarly work examines multi-nationality, imperialism, and nation-making in vast empires, with particular focus on the South Caucasus and the former Soviet Union. At the ScienceCampus, he developed his monograph Forging the Nation: The Making and Faking of Nationalisms and delivered a public lecture on nationalism.