Ekaterina Emeliantseva Koller has been an SNSF professor of East European History since September 2017. Previously she was an SNSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Marie Heim-Vögtlin Grant) at the University of Zurich (2015-2017) and part-time lecturer in History at the Universities of Zurich and St. Gallen (2014-2017). Previously, she was a 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, Bonn, and St. Petersburg.
Current Research Projects
Late Soviet Village: People, Institutions, and Things between the socialist cult of urbanity and ruralisation of urban life styles
Flexible Socialism of the Brezhnev era: People, institutions, and emotions in the closed city of Severodvinsk (Summary)
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
Memberships
- Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
- British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)
- Verband der Osteuropahistorikerinnen und –historiker (VOH)
- Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Geschichte (SGG)
- Schweizerische Akademische Gesellschaft für Osteuropawissenschaften (Revisorin)
- AcademiaNet