Regions, centre-periphery relations
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).
Prof. Evgeny Dobrenko, Professor of Russian and Slavonic Studies, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies
Prof Dobrenko’s research lie in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, Socialist Realism, Russian and Soviet film, critical theory and Soviet cultural history. He is currently writing a book on cultural history of late Stalinism and editing a History of Soviet Literary Theory and Criticism.
Dr Adam Swain, Lecturer in Human Geography
His research interests lie in the political economy of post-soviet Europe and the history of British geographies of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. He has conducted research on industrial restructuring and regional development in eastern Germany, Hungary and Ukraine.