Dr. Vera Dubina

affiliated researcher

 

E-Mail: Vera.dubina@gmail.com

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Current research project: Public History in Russia

 

Research areas
 

• Memory Culture
• Public history
• Everyday History
• Theory of History

 

Short CV
 

Education

 

PhD. (Candidate Nauk) Samara State University, RF
 

Diploma - History - Samara State University, RF

 

Work experience

 

since 2022 Humboldt University Berlin, Research Associate

2014-2022 Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in the Russian Federation, History and Academic Exchange Officer

2012-2022 The Moscow School of Social and Economic Science. Lecturer in Public History

2013 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Officer of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Russia

2010-2013 Russian State University of Humanities (Moscow), Lecturer at the Institute for Sociocultural Projects

2007-2010 Academy of Sciences (Moscow), Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology, research assistant

2004-2008 State Institute of Local Government (Samara), lecturer

2001-2002 State Academy of Culture and Arts (Samara), lecturer at the Department of History

1997-2001 State Aerospace University (Samara), tutor at the Department of History

 

Publications
 

Essays

Dubina, Vera; Arkhipova, Alexandra (2023): "No Wobble: Silent Protest in Contemporary Russia. In: Russian Analytical Digest # 291, 27.01.2023. DOI: 10.3929/ethz-b-000595208. https://css.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/cis/center-for-securities-studies/pdfs/RAD291.pdf

Dubina , Vera; Arkhipova, Alexandra (2023): "No to carp": silent protest in contemporary Russia. In: Russia Analyses No. 433, 06.03.2023.

Zavadski, Andrei; Dubina, Vera; Isaev, Egor; Kolesnik, Alexandra; Lajus, Julia and Suverina, Katerina (2022): "Public History in Russia: The Past, the Present, and (Thoughts About) the Future" International Public History, vol. 5, no. 2, 2022, pp. 143-156. https://doi.org/10.1515/iph-2022-2052

Zavadski, Andrei; Dubina Vera (2021): Eclipsing Stalin: The GULAG History Museum in Moscow as a Manifestation of Russia's Official Memory of Soviet Repression, Problems of Post-Communism, DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2021.1983444. (open access): https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2021.1983444

Dubina, Vera (2019): Controversy around places of remembrance in Russia: state projects and local initiatives. In: Journal of the Research Network SED State No. 43, pp. 64-78.

Dubina, Vera (2019): Mikroistorija na strazhe istoricheskogo mnogoobrazija [Microhistory in the service of historical diversity]. In: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie [New Literary Review]. 160, #6. https://www.nlobooks.ru/magazines/novoe_literaturnoe_obozrenie/160_nlo_6_2019/article/21779/

Dubina, Vera (2019): Virtual'noe mesto pamjati i real'noe prostranstvo GULAGa v sovremennoj Rossii [The virtual place of memory and the real space of the Gulag in contemporary Russia]. In: A. Zavadskij, V. Sklez, E. Suverena Politika affekta. Muzej kak prostranstvo publichnoj istorii [The politics of affect. The museum as a space for public history] M.: NLO. S. 320-336.

Dubina, Vera (2018): "Osobyj put'" teorii Sonderweg v interpretacii nacional'noj istorii [The "special way" of the special way theory in the interpretation of national history], "Osobyj put'": ot ideologii k metodu ["Special way": from ideology to method] Ed. Т. Atnshev, М. Velizhev, А.Zorin. М.: NLO, 2018, PP. 459-473.

Dubina, Vera (2015): Traces of the GULag in post-Soviet Russia. In: Mittelweg 36: Journal of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. 24 Jahrgang, Heft 3 Juni-Juli 2015, pp. 110-118.

Dubina, Vera (2015): "Obyknovennaja istorija" Vtoroj mirovoj vojny: diskursy seksual'nogo nasilija nad zhenshhinami okkupirovannyh territorij ["A common story": the discourse on the rape of women during World War II], Zhurnal issledovanij social'noj politiki [The Journal of Social Policy Studies]. 13, N 3, 2015, PP. 437-450.

Dubina, Vera (2011): Boleznennaja tema istorii vtoroj mirovoi voiny. Pamiat o seksualnom nasilii s russkoi i nemezkoi storon. [Painful Theme of the History of the Second World War: Memories of Sexual Violence from the Russian and German Sides]. In: Vestnik RGGU [Russian State University of Humanities Gazette] // B.17. pp. 47-56. http://www.perspektivy.info/print.php?ID=55536

Dubina, Vera (2011): "The subtle differences": Russian nobility and Russian elites in the European context. In: Nobility History and Elite Research. (Eds. Lubos Velek and Milos Reznik). Prague. S. 79-95.

Dubina, Vera (2011): "V lasarete bylo tak teplo i spokoino": iz vospomimamii odnogo uchenika ["It has been so quiet in the hospital": from the memoirs of a student]. in: Russkai Medizina vo vremia voiny i mira [Russian Medicine in War and Peace]. St. Petersburg Academy of Science. St. Petersburg. S.21-36.

Dubina, Vera (2010): Istorija povsednevnosti v "kulturnom povorote" v Rossii i Germanii v sravnenii [Everyday life history under "cultural turn" in Russia and Germany in comparison]. In: Dialogi so vremenem [Dialogues with Time] Moscow. N 32, PP.203-211.

Dubina, Vera (2010): Vospitanie skukoj: obhozhdenie s emozijami v obrazovanii rossiskogo dvorjanstva v seredine 19 veka. [Education through boredom: Dealing with emotions in the education of Russian aristocrats in the mid-19th century]. In: Rossiskaia Imperia chuvstv: podhody k kulturnoi istorii emozii. [In the realm of Russian emotions: approaches to the cultural history of emotions] Plamper, Jan (ed.). Moscow, NLO. S. 151-165.

Dubina, Vera (2010): Iz Bielefelda v Kembridge i obratno: puti istorii ponjatii v Rossii. Posleslovie [From Bielefeld to Cambridge and back: the paths of conceptual history in Russia. Afterword]. In: Istoria poniatij, istoria metaphor, istoria diskursa [Begriffsgeschichte, Diskursgeschichte, Methapherngeschichte]. Translation from German into Russian. Moscow, pp.298-319.

Dubina,Vera, Polskoy S. (2009): Osobyi put russkogo dvorjanstva rossiskoi i zapadnoevropeiskoi istoriographii [The "special path" of the Russian aristocracy in Russian and Western European historiography]. In: Nzvestia samarskogo nauchnogo zentra rossiskoi akademii nauk [News of the Samara Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences]. B.11, N 2, PP. 227 - 234.

Dubina, Vera (2008): The "Distinction": Russian nobility and Russian elites in the European context. (the 18th-19th Century). In: Evolution and Social History. V.7, # 2, September, P. 81-100.

Dubina, Vera (2008): Budnichnye problemy povsednevnoi istorii: rasgovor s prof. Luedtke o sovremennyh problemah povsednevnoi istorii ["Everyday" Questions of Everyday History: Conversation with Prof. Alf Lüdtke on the Modern State and Development of Everyday History]. In: Ezhegodnik sozialnoj istorii 2007 [Yearbooks of Social History], Moscow, 2008. pp. 55-66.

 

Preparation and editing of anthologies

• Zavadski Andrei; Dubina Vera (eds.) (2021): Vse v proshlom: teoriya i praktik publichnoi istorii [Everything is in the past: theory and practice of public history]. Moscow, Novoe izdatelstvo.
   
• Dubina, Vera (ed.): Vojna i mir:Pervaja Mirovaja Vojna i ee vlijanie na razvitie obshhestvennogo porjadka i demokratii [War and Peace. The First World War and its Influence on the Formation of Democracy and Social Order. With contributions by Jörn Leonhard, Dietrich Beyrau, Egbert Jahn etc.]. Moscow, ROSPEN. 2015.
   
• - Behrends Jahn; Dubina Vera; Sorokin Andrej (eds.): Povsednevnaja zhizn' pri socializme. Nemeckie i rossijskie podhody [Everyday Life in Late Socialism: German-Russian Perspectives. With contributions by Jahn Behrends, Thomas Lindenberger, Renate Hütgen, Nikolai Petrov etc.]. Moscow, ROSPEN. 2015.
   
• - Conceptual history, discourse history, metaphor history. Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe obozrenie, 2010. (Editor of the Russian edition and translator into Russian in collaboration with other translators).
   
• - Dubina Vera; Leonov Mikhail: Jevoljucija konservatizma: evropejskaja tradicija i russkij opyt [Conservatism in transition: European tradition and Russian experience]. Samara 2002.
   
• - Banzhaf Lars; Dubina Vera; Leonov Mikhail (eds.): Problemy nacional'noj identifikacii, kul'turnye i politicheskie svjazi Rossii so stranami Baltijskogo regiona v XVIII -XIX vekah [Political and Cultural Relations between Russia and the Baltic States] Samara 2001.

 

Research Grants
 

2022 Research Centre Eastern Europe University of Bremen, Research Fellowship Alumni Programme of the AvH Foundation

2018 Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial, scholarship within the framework of "Memory work" programme of the Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship

2014 Centre for Literary Research Berlin, Research Fellowship

2008-2009 Institute for European History Mainz, Post Doc Research Fellowship.

2007 Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (Frankfurt am Main),
Research Fellowship

2006 Max Planck Institute for History (Göttingen), Research Fellowship

2005-2006 Gerda Henkel Foundation, Scholarship

2002-2003 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Federal Chancellor Scholarship for Future Leaders

2002 German Academic Exchange Service, short scholarship for a research stay at Bielefeld University

1999-2000 Research Support Scheme (Soros Foundation), Research Fellowship


Fellowships

2006-2007 Central European University, Curriculum Development Project, Faculty development Grant

2005 Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Canadian Studies Faculty Enrichment Program,
Short-term fellowship for a research stay at the University of Ottawa

2004 Centre for German and European Studies St. Petersburg, Faculty Fellow

2001 Central European University (Budapest), Curriculum Research Centre