Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Department Member, Institute for Central and East European Studies (ZIMOS)

Other Affiliations: American Political Science Association, Member
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Fachlektor
Valdai International Discussion Club, Member

DAAD Associate Professor (dotsent) of German and European Studies

Department of Political Science, National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"

Thesis Title: ″Post-Soviet ‘Uncivil Society’ and the Rise of Aleksandr Dugin: A Case Study of the Extraparliamentary Radical Right in Contemporary Russia,″ 79,700 words, University of Cambridge Library 2007, http://www.sps.cam.ac.uk/central_pdfs/ann_report_0607.pdf

About

I study contemporary Russian and Ukrainian politics with a focus on the post-Soviet extreme right at the National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy," a small, but prolific Ukrainian higher education institution (http://www.ukma.kiev.ua/ua/faculties/fac_soc/politology/index.php ), and the Eichstaett Institute for Central and East European Studies, a miniscule, yet productive Bavarian research center focusing on current Russian intellectual history (http://www.ku-eichstaett.de/forschungseinr/zimos/ ). Since 2005, I have been also involved in the creation, in Ukraine, of a new Master's program in German and European Studies administered jointly by Kyiv's Mohyla Academy and Jena's Schiller University (http://www.des.uni-jena.de/ ). Since 2010, I am a member of the Valdai International Discussion Club (http://valdaiclub.com/authors/22183.html).

I would be glad to hear from people with similar research interests (see below), and from those wanting to publish their dissertations, monographs, edited volumes or document collections in the English- and German-language book series "Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society" where over 100 volumes were published in 2004-2010 (http://www.ibidem-verlag.de/spps.html ). Among the particular (but not only) foci of this series are
-- Russian nationalism (http://www.amazon.com/Post-Soviet-Russian-Politics-VI-The-Extreme-Right/lm/R9DIZKUZAKTDU/ref=cm_lm_byauthor_title_full ),
--- post-communist politics (http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/byauthor/ABDE6L94T5H8R/ ), and
-- higher education in CEE or the NIS (http://www.amazon.de/Higher-Education-in-Eastern-Europe-English-language-Books/lm/R3BBCQE249Q9D3/ ).

ZIMOS's web journal "Forum noveishei vostochnoevropeiskoi istorii i kul'tury" (http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/ZIMOS/forumruss.html ) invites Russian-language scholarly papers in the fields of contemporary East European history, post-Soviet politics, and Eurasian cultural studies.

If interested, please, do not hesitate to join the groups
-- "Russian Nationalism" (links lists, papers, listserv & newsletter) at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/russian_nationalism/ ,
-- "Researchers of Russian Nationalism" (networking, updates & discussion) at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=157897 , and
-- "Researchers of Historical and Neo-Fascism" (networking, updates & discussion) at http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1640147/ as well as at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52910686741 . (Applications for joining these groups are submitted by clicking the relevant buttons on the above homepages.)

If you have worked in Eastern Europe or the NIS, I would be interested in comments, additions and corrections concerning the guide "Teach at a university in the former Soviet bloc" at http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/REKTGK0DL1N8F/ . A list of additional German-language literature on this issue can be found here: http://www.amazon.de/Das-Hochschulwesen-Osteuropas-deutschspr-Bücher/lm/R1GDNZU1JWNJYP/ . A related Facebook group called "Post-Soviet Higher Education in the Social Sciences and Humanities" may be found here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=95913992412&ref=ts .

If you are or were a student of mine, please, evaluate my course/s at http://www.meinprof.de/uni/prof/42839 .

I also use Research Gate, LinkedIn, XING, Professionali.ru, Life Journal and Facebook for networking. Please, connect via:
-- http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andreas_Umland/
-- http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasumland ,
-- https://www.xing.com/profile/Andreas_Umland2 ,
-- http://professionali.ru/~256036 ,
-- http://umland.livejournal.com/ ,
-- http://www.facebook.com/people/Andreas-Umland/1037655458 .
My favorite social network is Facebook.

PRIMARY RESEARCH INTERESTS: Soviet history and post-Soviet politics; Russian nationalism; post-communist ethno-centrism; international right-wing extremism; comparative fascism; New Right Gramscianism; uncivil society; Conservative Revolution; antisemitism.

SECONDARY RESEARCH INTERESTS: Totalitarianism; electoral authoritarianism; revolutions; transitology & collapsology; cross-cultural comparison; qualitative and concept analysis; terminology; higher education reform in Eastern Europe and the NIS; post-socialist social sciences and historical writing.

BRIEF BIO: CertTransl (Leipzig), AM (Stanford), MPhil (Oxford), DipPolSci, DrPhil (FU Berlin), PhD (Cambridge). Visiting fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, in 1997-99, and Harvard’s Weatherhead Center, in 2001-02. Bosch visiting lecturer in international relations and political science at Yekaterinburg’s Urals State University, in 1999-2001, and Kyiv’s Mohyla Academy, in 2003/05. Temporary lecturer in Russian and East European studies at St. Antony’s College Oxford, in Jan-Dec 2004. General editor of Ibidem Press's book series "Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society" (SPPS), since 2004. DAAD lecturer in German studies at Kyiv’s Shevchenko University, in 2005-08. Founder and administrator of the web archive/Yahoo group "Russian Nationalism," and co-compiler of its biweekly bulletin RNB, since 2007. Lecturer in Russian and Ukrainian contemporary history at Eichstaett’s Catholic University, in 2008-2010. Member of the Eichstaett Institute for Central and East European Studies (ZIMOS), and co-editor of its German printed and Russian web journals "Forum for Contemporary East European History and Ideas," since 2008. DAAD senior lecturer in political science at Kyiv's Mohyla Academy, from 2010 until today.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Late Tsarist, Soviet and post-Soviet history; post-communist transitions; Russian politics; ultra-nationalism in today Russia; rise and fall of fascism; Nazism in comparative perspective; inter-war German ultra-conservatism; contemporary European right-wing radicalism; history and problems of European integration; EU institutions; introduction to the philosophy and methodology of social science; conduct of cross-cultural analysis; macrohistorical comparison; political concepts and terminology.

PAPERS, RESEARCH NOTES and REVIEW ESSAYS
-- in English in: "European Political Science," "Political Studies Review," "European History Quarterly," "Harvard International Review," "Problems of Post-Communism," "The Russian Review," "East European Jewish Affairs," "Demokratizatsiya," "The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics," "The Journal of Slavic Military Studies," "Russian Politics and Law," "Nationalities Papers," "Journal of Eurasian Studies," "IP Global," "Oxford Analytica," "Russian Analytical Digest," "CEU Political Science Journal;"
-- in German in: "Osteuropa," "Internationale Politik," "Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft," "Neue Politische Literatur," "Forschungsjournal Neue Soziale Bewegungen," "Jahrbuch für Ostrecht," "Osteuropa-Recht," "Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung," "Erwägen Wissen Ethik," "Forum für osteuropäische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte," "Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik," "Russland-Analysen," "Ukraine-Analysen," "Die Neue Gesellschaft: Frankfurter Hefte," "Berliner Debatte: Initial;"
-- in Russian in: "Politicheskie issledovaniia," "Voprosy filosofii," "Svobodnaia mysl'," "Pro et Contra," "Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost’," "Neprikosnovennyi zapas," "Ab Imperio," "Novaia i noveishaia istoriia," "Sotsiologicheskii zhurnal," "Sravnitel'noe konstitutsionnoe obozrenie," "Antropologicheskii forum," "Kontinent," "Vestnik Evropy," "Vestnik Instituta Kennana v Rossii," "Posev," "Forum noveishei vostochnoevropeiskoi istorii i kul'tury," "Bez temy;"
...as well as in other journals & 20+ collected volumes.

WORKING PAPERS published by NATO's Academic Forum, Harvard's Weatherhead Center, Moscow's Higher School of Economics, and Bremen's Forschungsstelle Osteuropa.

ARTICLES, REPORTS and COMMENTS
-- in English in: "The Washington Post," "The Wall Street Journal," "Le Monde diplomatique," "The Globe and Mail," "The Jerusalem Post," "The Moscow Times," "St. Petersburg Times," "The Ukrainian Weekly," "The National Interest Online," "World Affairs Journal Online," "Washington ProFile," "Kyiv Post," "Prospect Magazine," "Russia Profile," "EUObserver," "Open Democracy," "The Globalist," "Asia Times Online," "The Georgian Times," "Turkish Daily News," "Today's Zaman," "World Politics Review," "Foreign Policy Journal," "Global Politician," "ReachClearWorld," "OpEdNews," "American Chronicle," "World Sentinel," "Online Journal," "Atlantic Community," "New Atlanticist," "History News Network," "World News," "Woodstock Road Editorial," "NATO-Russia.org," "Italian Foreign Policy," "Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research," "Ukrainians.ca," "Johnson's Russia List," "International Relations and Security Network;"
-- in German in: "Die Zeit," "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung," "Die Presse," "Aussenpolitik.net," "e-Politik," "Politikforum," "Zur Debatte," "Zeitschrift antirassistischer Gruppen," "Phase 2," "Zeithistorische Streitfragen," "Internationale wissenschaftliche Korrespondenz zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung," "Ukraine-Nachrichten," "Eurasisches Magazin," "Russland.ru,"  "Rußland liest," "Berliner Osteuropa Info;"
-- in Russian in: "The New Times/Novoe vremia," "Novaia gazeta," "Nezavisimaia gazeta," "Russkaia Germaniia," "Polit.ru," "Gazetat.ru," "Forum.msk.ru," "Intellektual'naia Rossiia," "PolitPortal," "Agentstvo politicheskikh novostei," "Newsland.ru," "InoSMI," "InoPressa," "Tretii put'," "RusRAND.ru," "Korrespondent" (Kyiv), "Mobus News," "Fraza," "Delfi," "Weekly.UA," "Segodnia v Ukraine," "Focus.ua," "Parlamentua.com," "DailyUA," "DialogUA," "Narodny korrespondent," "UkrNews," "Geopolitika" (Vilnius), "Telegraf" (Minsk), "Gruziia Online" (Tbilisi);
-- in Ukrainian in: "Dzerkalo tyzhnia," "Ukrainska pravda," "Novynar," "Krytyka," "Ukrainskyy tyzhden," "Glavred," "UNIAN," "Vlasti.net," "Ukraina segodnia," "Real'na polityka," "inoZMI," "UkrGazeta," "Potok.in.ua," "Censor.net," "Newsme.com.ua;"
-- in other languages in: "Presseurop.eu," "Critica sociale," "Voxnr," "VTV.lt," "Cavaleiro do Templo," "Protiprudu.info," "Kitekintő," "Gondola," "Kárpáti Harsona;"
...as well as other periodicals & websites.

BOOK REVIEWS and NOTES
-- in English in: "Democratization," "Party Politics," "German Politics," "Slavic Review," "Europe-Asia Studies," "The Slavonic and East European Review," "Patterns of Prejudice," "Nationalism and Ethnic Politics," "Religion, State and Society," "H-Russia," "Labour History News," "e-Extreme;"
-- in German in: "Politische Vierteljahresschrift," "Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft," "Zeitschrift für Politik," "Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft," "Comparativ," "Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas," "Ethnos-Nation;"
....as well as in several of the periodicals listed above.

INTERVIEWS for "The Chronicle of Higher Education," "Times Higher Education," "Deutsche Welle," "Voice of America," "Der Spiegel Online," "The Moscow Times," "Süddeutsche Zeitung," "STB.ua," "Teleopolis," "BBC Ukrainian," "Südwestfundfunk" (ARD), "Deutsche Welle," "Lenta.ru," "Stolichnye novosti" (Kyiv), "RBK Ukraina," "Pedahohichny kadry," "Trud" (Moscow) and other outlets.

LINKS to most of my publications available on the WWW are listed at
--  http://ku-eichstaett.academia.edu/AndreasUmland/Papers
and at
-- http://digg.com/users/Umland/history/submissions .

GROUPS and ASSOCIATIONS: Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), American Political Science Association (APSA), International Political Science Association (IPSA), Russian Political Science Association (RAPN), American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS), Eurasian Political Studies Network (EPSN; http://eng.espi.ru/ ), Deutsch-Russischer Austausch (DRA), Network on the Comparative Study of Bolshevism and National Socialism (http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/ZIMOS/netzwerk.html ), Political Extremism Section of the German Society for Political Science (http://www.politik.uni-mainz.de/dvpw-politischer-extremismus ), European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group "Extremism and Democracy" (http://www.tufts.edu/~dart01/extremismanddemocracy/ ), German Society for East European Studies (DGO), Deutsche Assoziation der Ukrainisten (DAU), Verband der Osteuropahistorikerinnen und -historiker (VOH).

PRESENTATIONS at conventions and meetings of the  APSA, IPSA, ECPR, AAASS/ASEEES, ICCEES, BASEES, DGO, EPSN, CES, CEP, DRA, DGS, FES, KAS, Sefer, Villigster Forschungsforum and other organizations, as well as within workshops, lecture and conferences series at Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, Koc, Kyiv, L'viv, Simferopol, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Perm, Yaroslavl, Bratislava, Chemnitz, Jena, Frankfurt-Oder, Erfurt, Bochum, Greifswald, Hamburg, Erlangen, Konstanz, Thuringian Forum for Education and Science, German Marshall Fund, Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, Catholic Academy of Bavaria, INION Moscow, DGAP Berlin, OEI Munich, CEU Budapest, HAIT Dresden, ZZF Potsdam, GWZO Leipzig, WIOS Regensburg and other institutions.

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