Alexandra Koroleva

My thesis addresses the history of the branches of the Academy of sciences in the USSR in the 1980s-1990s. I look at the changes in local public sphere in the Academy of Sciences structures in Siberia, Urals, and the Far East. I am interested in investigating how these academic 'elites' - employees of the Academy of Sciences branches in RSFSR/Russia - were reacting to and adjusting to perestroika and the post-Soviet years, political and social alterations. I will study their engagement in the public sphere and in civil activities, as welle as what public roles they attributed to themselves and how they exercised them.

2022 Master's degree in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Central European University, Vienna, Austria.

2020 Bachelor's degree in History from National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.

Publication

2022 "Not Textbook Instructions, but Cultural Events': Collective Memory of the (Post)Soviet through Educational Mnemonic Practices in Russophone Supplementary Schools", co-authored with Viktoria Kobzeva. Workshop "Learning about (Post)Socialist Space", 15-17 September 2022, Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde, Leipzig, Germany,

2020 "What Does Academic Mobility Mean in the 21st Century? International Experience of Young Scholars and the Idea of University", co-authored with Viktoria Kobzeva for the Working Papers series "Humanities" of the Higher School of Economics.

2018 "University History Museums in Virtual Space", co-authored with Kira Ilina for the Working Papers series "Humanities" of the Higher School of Economics.