Fellowships and Awards
- 2017 – Senior fellow at IWM, Vienna
- 2015 – senior fellow in Imre Kertesz Kolleg, Jena
- MacArthur Foundation grant for the project "The Formation of the Image of Russia in Ukrainian Press and of Ukraine in Russian Press after the Dissolution of the USSR," 1994-1995
- Humboldt-Stiftung Research Fellow, 1998-1999
- MacArthur Foundation grant for the project "The Dichotomy 'Russkij-Rossijskij' in Contemporary Political Discourse in Russia," 2000-2001
- Senior Fellow in the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, 2001
- Senior Fellow, Collegium Budapest, 2002-2003
- Visiting Professor, University of Glamorgan, UK – 2004
- Leverhulme Trust Professor, Manchester – 2010-2011
Professional Activities
- Professor, European University in Saint-Petersburg
Courses taught in the previous years
- Empire and Nationalism in Russia and USSR
- Historical Politics
- Imperial Order - A Comparative Perspective
CEU doctoral supervision
- From Poets to Statesmen: Transformation of the Belarusian National Movement in the Time of the European Crisis (1914-1921) / Aliaksandr Bystryk (current)
- The ambiguities of Soviet "Piedmonts": Soviet borderland policies in the Ukrainian SSR and the Moldovan ASSR, 1922-1934 / Alexandr Voronovici (2016)
- Sanitation, urban environment and the politics of public health in late imperial Moscow / Anna Mazanik (2015)
- National challenges to decentralization: autonomy and federation in the Russian liberal discourse, 1900-1914 / Tatiana Ivanovna Khripachenko (2015)
- The Ukrainian project in search of national space, 1861-1914 / Anton Leonidovych Kotenko (2014)
Qualification
Candidate of Science (History) Institute for Slavic and Balkan Studies, Moscow, 1986
Habilitation – Russian State Humanities University, Moscow, 2000