Sabine Dullin
Full professor
I am full professor at Sciences Po Paris and an historian of modern Russia and the USSR. I have worked on the political history of the Soviet State. I have also studied the international and transnational dimensions of communism. I'm interested in a decentered history of politics. I'm focusing on the role of the Republics in the Soviet then Russian federation, on the sovereignty of substate actors and their spaces of autonomy in periods of imperial collapse. I develop a project on survival and sovereignty in Yakutia-Sakha with new directions on decolonial and climate change issues.
I am teaching at Sciences Po general contemporary history and history of Russia and the Soviet Union as Empires for undergraduate students, history of borderlands for graduate students. My research seminar on communist, soviet and post-communist worlds brings together PhD students and scholars from various institutions.
I am in the editorial chief of the french bilingual journal in global and transnational history Monde(s). Histoire, espaces, relations, http://www.monde-s.com/
I am head of the history departement since 2017.
Recent research publications and activities
- Interdisciplinary working group on barriers and borders (Columbia world projects, Center for History and Economics) https://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/barriers/thought_pieces.html
- Chapter https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350263413
- Conference on the Republics and their international role https://archivio.unior.it/ricerca/41531/3/draft-programme.html
- Visiting Scholar in the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
- Participation to the ASEEES 2023 Philadelphia
- Book https://www.routledge.com/The-Russian-Revolution-in-Asia-From-Baku-to-Batavia/Dullin-Forestier-Peyrat-Lin-Shimazu/p/book/9781032124384
- Research Seminar program https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/en/content/soviet-communist-and-post-communist-worlds.html
- Thinking through permafrost, interdisciplinary workshop, 25 January 2024.
Focus Area and Themes
Sovereignty | States, empires, international relations
Political, economical and ecological dimensions of sovereignty/States, substates, empires and international relations
Last Publications
- Dullin, Sabine and Etienne Peyrat. 2020. "Ukrainiens et Biélorusses à l’ONU : la Guerre froide d’États subalternes." monde(s) histoire espaces relations 2020/2 (18): 31-50.
- Dullin, Sabine. 2020. "Le fusil d'assaut." In Le magasin du monde. La mondialisation par les objets du XVIIIe siècle, ed. Pierre Singaravelou and Sylvain Venayre, 370-374. Paris: Fayard.
- Dullin, Sabine. 2019. Uplotneniye granits. K istokam sovetskoy politiki. 1920–1940-ye. Moscou: Novoye literaturnoye obozreniye.
- Dullin, Sabine and Brigitte Studer. 2018. "Communism + Transnational: the rediscovered equation of internationalism in the Comintern years." Twentieth Century Communism, April.
- Dullin, Sabine. 2018. "Le réveil des frontières intérieures." Pouvoirs: Revue française d’études constitutionnelles et politiques 2 (165): 15-26.
Supervision of PhD Thesis
Zoé ALLEN-MERCIER, Soviet Mechanisms of Maintaining Social Order in Times of Détente and Domestic Opposition: The Example of Karelia During the Early Helsinki Process. Co-supervisor: Louis Clerc (University of Turku, Finland)
Alexandra KOROLEVA, ‘Difficult and happy years’: (Post)Soviet Academic ‘Periphery’, ‘Local’ Discourse and the Public Sphere in the 1980s–1990s.
Joshua LEUNG, The Jews in Poland: A History of Minorities Diplomacy (1919-1939). Co-supervisor: Audrey Kichelewski (University of Strasbourg)
Isabelle LINAIS, Practices and memory of the hajj in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan c.1940s-1990s. Co-supervisor: Stéphane Dudoignon (CNRS-CETOBAC)
Yuqing QIU, Circulation of information on the Mao's Famine in China: a transnational history (1958-1962). Co-supervisor: Sebastian Veg (EHESS)
Anya SIDOREVITCH, Dissidents and feminists in USSR (1956-1986)
2024-2026 : SAB (SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD SCIENCES PO)
SURVIVAL AND SOVEREIGNTY IN YAKUTIA-SAKHA (1985-2022): DECOLONIZATION IN THE MELTDOWN OF THE SOVIET-RUSSIAN EMPIRE AND MELTING OF THE PERMAFROST
