Prof. BO PETERSSON, Co-Founder and Co-Director of RUCARR, PhD Political Science
Research: Legitimacy, authoritarianism, national identity and political myth. Has throughout his academic career specialized in Russian and post-Soviet politics, with the main methodological approaches being qualitative methods, discourse analysis and elite interviewing. (info)
Prof. em. KARINA VAMLING, Co-Founder of RUCARR, PhD General Linguistics
Research: Ethnolinguistic diversity, minorities and language policy, linguistic typology, language and culture; travelogues and 19th century history of the region. Regional focus: Georgia and Russian Northwest Caucasus. (info)
Prof. DEREK S. HUTCHESON, PhD Political Science
Research: Russia, elections, political parties, voting rights, political participation of transnational citizens, citizenship. (info)
Prof. em. KLAS-GÖRAN KARLSSON, PhD History
Research: Modern international history; Russian, Caucasian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies; Genocide Studies; World War Studies; Global History; European History Cultures and Uses of History. (info)
Prof. TINA ASKANIUS, PhD Media and Communication Studies
Research: social movements, political activism and digital media practices; far-right extremism online; anti-feminism and networked misogyny (info)
Prof. BJÖRN SUNDMARK, PhD English Literature
Research: translation studies, children’s and young adult literature, creative writing, literature in education, citizenship education. (info)
Dr. MICHEL ANDERLINI, PhD Global Politics
Research: The European Union´s relations to its Eastern Neighbourhood (Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine), Europeanization, compliance studies and EU law implementation.
Dr. OLEG ANTONOV, Associated researcher, PhD in history
Ass.prof. SVITLANA BABENKO, PhD Sociology
Research: Qualitative and mixed methods research in sociology and gender studies, internal displacement in war-torn regions of Ukraine, inequalities, work, gender, and migration (info)
NICK BAIGENT, PhD candidate, Global Politics
Research: Infrastructure development, local resistance, energy security, geo-politics of infrastructure, South Caucasus politics. (info)
Ass.prof. CHRISTOFER BERGLUND, PhD Political Science
Research: comparative politics; international affairs; post-Soviet Eurasia; nationalism; ethnic conflicts; state-building; geopolitics; democratization; experiments. (info)
Ass.prof. TOBIAS DENSKUS, DPhil Development Studies; his research focuses on digital development communication topics, humanitarianism, changing professionalism in the aid industry and aid worker (auto)biographies as a new literary genre. (info)
Dr. NATIA GAMKRELIDZE, Associated researcher, PhD Political Science
Research: Her research interests lie in Political Psychology, Foreign-Policy Decision Making, and International Security, with a regional focus on Eastern Europe, Black Sea Region, Caucasus Region, and Russia. Has throughout his academic career specialized in Russian and post-Soviet politics, with the main methodological approaches being qualitative methods, discourse analysis and elite interviewing.
Dr. KATRINE B. GOTFREDSEN, PhD Anthropology
Research: Political anthropology, peace and conflict, everyday life under military occupation, resistance, social and cultural identity. Regional focus on Georgia, the Caucasus, and the former Soviet Union. Main methodological approaches are qualitative, particularly ethnography and qualitative interviews. (info)
Director Musices DANIEL HANSSON, Guest prof. Lviv University; a respected and sought-after educationalist and guest professor in conducting at the Conservatory of Music in Lviv, Ukraine. Beyond leading a number of courses and seminars on conducting, he continuously works towards making music education as inclusive as possible across all age groups. (info)
Dr. MANANA KOCK KOBAIDZE, PhD Kartvelian Languages
Research: Old Georgian and Modern Georgian, dialectology, sociolinguistics. (info)
Dr. MY LILJA, Associate Professor in Criminology and teacher in Criminology, Faculty Health and Society. Research interests: Narrative criminology, Drug Policy, Juvenile Crime, Prison research. (info)
SVETLANA L’NYAVSKIY-EKELUND, PhD Cand. Cultural History of Central and Eastern Europe
Research: Multilingualism, Language Politics, Policy and Planning, Eastern and Central European regional studies. Has throughout her academic career specialized in Ukrainian and post-Soviet language politics, with the main methodological approaches being qualitative methods, discourse analysis and digital ethnography. (info)
Dr. TOM NILSSON, PhD Political Science
Research: Public Administration, Public Management, democratization, public ethics, corruption, post-Soviet politics (info)
Dr REVAZ TCHANTOURIA, PhD Caucasian and Comparative Linguistics
Main areas of research: Caucasology and Kartvelology, Contrastive and typological linguistics, The Caucasian-Basque hypothesis, Russian grammar (info)
TERESA TOMASEVIC, Officer for Widening Access and Participation, including coordinator for Migration Issues
Main areas of interest: Language acquisition; Swedish/Swedish as a second language. Georgian language. (info)
Dr. MARIIA TYSHCHENKO, PhD, Project researcher, her research concerns the politics of gender inclusion of Internal and external Ukrainian refugees in the context of the War. (info)
Dr. ALIONA YAROVA, PhD, postdoc researcher
Research: Children’s literature in education, global citizenship education, war literature, creative writing. Specialized in children’s literature in education, with the main methodological approaches being qualitative methods, narrative analysis and participatory action research. (info)
Dr. LARS FUNCH HANSEN, PhD in Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, associated researcher (–2018)
Dr. MÄRTA-LISA MAGNUSSON, PhD Slavonic Languages, associated researcher (retired) (info)
Dr. KAMAL MAKILI-ALIYEV, PhD International and Constitutional Law, associated researcher (–2022)