Migration, diaspora and exile
Dr Sarah Badcock, Lecturer in modern European history
Dr. Badcock's research interests focus around late Imperial and revolutionary Russian history. She recently completed a book on grassroots politics in the Russian revolution, and is currently researching the experience of political exile in late Imperial Russia.
Dr Nick Baron, Lecturer in History
Most of Dr. Baron's research addresses the interactions among ‘space’, ‘populations’ and ‘power’ in 20th century Russian and East European history. There are currently three strands to this work: he is co-directing a four-year AHRC-funded international research project titled ‘Population displacement, state practice and social experience in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1930s-1950s’; preparing for publication a monograph on Soviet spatial planning and development in the interwar period; and pursuing a further project on early Soviet map-making and spatial cultures (partly funded by a J.B. Harley Fellowship in the History of Cartography, 2006).
Dr Dejan Djokic, Lecturer in Serbian and Croatian Studies
His research interests lie in political and social history of Yugoslavia in the first half of the 20C, Serb-Croat relations, national and other identities among the South Slavs, and history of the Cold War in Europe. Dr Djokic is currently completing a book on interwar Yugoslavia and has recently edited a special issue of 'European History Quarterly' on contacts and debates between various socialist groups and individuals in both Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War, which challenges indirectly the East-West division of the continent.
Dr David Norris, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
Dr Norris's research interests include modern Serbian cultural studies; the relationship of literature to culture and ideology in small nations; Serbian and Croatian literature; literary and cultural theory and methodological issues in literary history. He writes about the evolution of a specific Balkan semiotics in the Western imagination and cultural developments which have helped to shape Balkan identities and histories. His current work concerns dominant patterns of representation in Serbian literature and film during the civil wars of the 1990s in the region.
Dr Vanessa Pupavac, Lecturer in Politics
Dr Pupavac is a lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations. Her research has examined international human rights and humanitarian responses in relation to the post-Yugoslav states. She was awarded the 2003 Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award.