Nina Krienke

PhD candidate
Department of Politics and Economics

PhD Thesis
Processes of political meaning-making and movement formation. The current Romanian protest movement and its activists‘ motives and demands


Research Interests

• civil society in periods of societal change
• democracy theory and philosophy of the political
• politics and contemporary history of Eastern Europe

 
Education
 
since 10/2018 PhD candidate, Research Centre of East European Studies at the University of Bremen
 
10/2014 - 06/2017 MA in Democratic Politics and Communication at the University of Trier; Title of MA thesis: Two sides of the same coin? The ‚paradigm of catch-up modernization‘ and the ‚simultaneity problem‘ in Transformation Studies
 
2010 - 2013 BA in Systematic Musicology and Political Science at the University of Hamburg; Title of BA-thesis: The emotional substance of microtonality
 

Work Experience
 
03/2016 - 05/2016: Intern at the redaction of the Journal Eastern Europe, Berlin
 
09/2015 - 10/2015: Intern at GIZ Ukraine, Kiev (Reform advisory fund for the Ukrainian Government, Strenghtening administrative authorities to reform public finances)
 
01/2014 - 03/2014: Research assistant and author at the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Hamburg
 
10/2013 - 08/2014: Intercultural communications consultant and language mediator (Romanian) at the street magazine Hinz&Kunzt, Hamburg
 

Scholarships and Awards

since 10/2019: Full doctoral scholarship at the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
 
2017: Award for the best thesis in the department of Political Science in 2017, conferred by the Alumni Association of Political Sciences at the University of Trier


Publications

Nina Krienke (2023) The Political Economy of Eastern Europe 30 Years into the ‘Transition’. New Left Perspectives from the Region, Europe-Asia Studies, 75:6, 1049-1051, DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2023.2224185 (review)

Krienke, N. (2022). Interpreting the Political, Politicizing Interpretation: Doing Politically Sensible Social Science Research. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 22(6), 562–575. https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086221105665

Krienke, Nina (2019): Ausgang aus der Gemunkelzone. Der Einfluss des Westens in der Ukraine, in: Osteuropa 3-4/2019, S. 193-210, https://www.zeitschrift-osteuropa.de/hefte/2019/3-4/ausgang-aus-der-gemunkelzone/