BORDER STUDIES - Key Persons


Albert Mecini

Job Titles:
  • Erasmus Plus Visiting Scientist During the Summer Term 2022

Artan Krasniqi

Job Titles:
  • Doctoral Student, University of Pristina / Erasmus
  • Erasmus Plus Visiting Scientist During the Summer Term 2022

Carolin Leutloff-Grandits

Job Titles:
  • Senior Researcher

Dr. Amelie Kutter

Job Titles:
  • Master Programme European Studies, EUV

Dr. Anne Isabel Holper

Job Titles:
  • Co - Leiterin

Dr. Borys Bigun

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow - from November 2014 to May 2015

Dr. Burcu Toğral Koca

Job Titles:
  • Resident Research Fellow, Viadrina Center B / ORDERS in MOTION

Dr. Christian Wille

Job Titles:
  • Senior Researcher and Head of the UniGR - Center for Border Studies - Guest Researcher at the Center from 1 / 7 / to 3 / 9 / 2022
and Head of the UniGR-Center for Border Studies - Guest Researcher at the Center from 1/7/ to 3/9/2022

Dr. Dagna Zinkhahn Rhobodes

Job Titles:
  • Research Project "Linking Borderlands"

Dr. Darja Klingenberg

Job Titles:
  • at the Chair of Comparative Cultural and Social Anthropology

Dr. Falk Flade

Job Titles:
  • Research Project "Mod - Block - DDR

Dr. Larissa Schindler

Job Titles:
  • Fellow - from November 2017 to January 2018
  • Professor for the Methods of Empirical Social Research at the University of Bayreuth

Dr. Latife Akyüz

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • at the Chair of Comparative Cultural and Social Anthropology
Dr. Latife Akyüz received her PhD from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara in 2013, with the dissertation titled "Ethnicity and Gender Dynamics of Living in Borderlands: The Case of Hopa-Turkey". She has held positions as a visiting scholar at Indiana University (2010), Binghamton University (2011-12) and the Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies, Liège University (2014). She worked as an Assistant Professor at Duzce University from March 2014 until 2016, when she, like many other Academics for Peace, were dismissed from her position. As a result, Dr. Akyuz was forced to flee Turkey and started to work as Philipp Schwartz Fellow at Goethe University (2016-2019). After working as Einstein Fellow at Humboldt University-BIM, she joined Viadrina University in 2022.

Dr. Lela Jamagidze

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Economics and Business / Senior Fellow - December 2015 to February 2016
  • Senior Fellow - December 2015 to February 2016

Dr. Marcin Krzymuski

Job Titles:
  • Education and Project Management, Frankfurt - Słubicer Kooperationszentrum

Dr. Norbert Cyrus

Job Titles:
  • Researcher Horizon Europe Project "Measuring Irregular Migration and Related Policies" ( MIrreM )

Dr. Paweł Lewicki

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Director of the European Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Peter Ulrich

Job Titles:
  • Academic Director at the Institute of Local Government Studies at the University of Potsdam

Dr. phil. Andrea Meissner

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Manager
  • Scientific Manager of the Viadrina Center B / ORDERS in MOTION

Dr. Silvan Pollozek

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Sociology of Technology, European New School of Digital Studies, EUV

Dr. Tatiana Kyselova

Job Titles:
  • Director, Mediation and Dialogue Research Center, National University of Kyiv - Mohyla Academy
  • Fellow - from October 2018 to December 2018

Dr. Özlem Savaş

Job Titles:
  • at the Chair of Comparative Cultural and Social Anthropology

Elisabeth Djumic

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member

Erasmus Plus Visiting

Job Titles:
  • Scientist
  • Erasmus Plus Visiting Scientist During the Summer Term 2022
  • Visiting Scientist During the Summer Term 2022

Europa-Universität Viadrina

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

J. Aaron Waggoner

Job Titles:
  • Research Areas

Lisa Ramroth

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Magdalena Fedorowicz

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow - from October 2015 to November 2015

Maria Klessmann

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member

Moritz Filter

Job Titles:
  • at the Chair of Work, Technology and Participation

Prof. Aristotelis Tympas

Job Titles:
  • Fellow - from June 2017 to February 2018

Prof. Dr. Christian Voß

Job Titles:
  • Leiter

Prof. Dr. Claudia Maria Hofmann - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Prof. Dr. Claudia Weber

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of European Contemporary History

Prof. Dr. Gangolf Hübinger

Job Titles:
  • Viadrina Senior Fellow

Prof. Dr. Gordana Jocanovic

Job Titles:
  • Department of Psychology, University of Belgrade

Prof. Dr. Ievgeniia Voloshchuk

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow - from November 2014 to May 2015

Prof. Dr. Jarosław Jańczak

Job Titles:
  • Master Programme European Studies

Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick

Job Titles:
  • Director

Prof. Dr. Klaus Weber

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Comparative European Economic and Social History

Prof. Dr. Nicole Richter

Job Titles:
  • Multicultural Communication ( Slavonic and English Linguistics and Language Use ), EUV

Prof. Dr. Olga Radchenko

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Institute of Economics and Law, National Bogdan Chmelnički - University, Cherkassy, Ukraine / Fellow - from November 2018 to January 2019
  • Fellow - from November 2018 to January 2019

Prof. Dr. Philipp Otto

Job Titles:
  • Reader in Statistics and Data Analytics at the University of Glasgow

Prof. Dr. Sabrina Zajak

Job Titles:
  • Associated Member / Member of the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research
  • Fellow - from October 2017 to March 2018
Associated Member Member of the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research Fellow - from October 2017 to March 2018

Prof. Dr. Timm Beichelt

Job Titles:
  • Professor of European Studies

Sara Bonin

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member / Research