Dr. Vera Dubina
Forschungsstelle Osteuropa
Klagenfurter Str. 8
28359 Bremen
+49 421 21867364
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 – Research Assistant at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Since 2012 - to present The Moscow School of Social and Economic Science. Lecturer in Public History
2013 - 2022 - Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in the Russian Federation, Research Assistant on History and Science Exchange.
2010-2014 - Russian State University of Humanities (Moscow), lecturer of the Institute of Sociocultural Projects
2013 - German House of Science and Innovation, adviser to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Russia
2007 -2010 Academy of Sciences (Moscow) Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology, research assistant
2004-2008 State Institute of Local Government (Samara) Lecturer
1999 - 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
Vera Dubina (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. To link to this article (open access): https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2021.1983444 (co-authored with Andrei Zavadski)
Vera Dubina (2019): Controversy over sites of memory in Russia: state projects and local initiatives. In: Journal of the SED State Research Network- No. 43, pp. 64-78.
Vera Dubina (2019) Mikroistorija na strazhe istoricheskogo mnogoobrazija [Micro-history on the guard of historical diversity]. In Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie [ New Literary Review]. 160, #6.
Vera Dubina (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. P. 320-336
Vera Dubina (2018): "Osobyj put'" teorii Sonderweg v interpretacii nacional'noj istorii [The "special way" of Sonderwegian theory in interpreting 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.
Vera Dubina (2018) "Osobyj put'" teorii Sonderweg v interpretacii nacional'noj istorii [The "special way" of Sonderwegian theory in interpreting national history]. In: "Osobyj put'": ot ideologii k metodu ["Special way": from ideology to method] Ed. Т.Atnshev, М. Velizhev, А.Zorin. М.: NLO, P. 459-473.
Vera Dubina (2015): traces of the GULag in post-Soviet Russia. In: Mittelweg 36/ Journal of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. 24 Year, Issue 3 June-July 2015, p. 110-118.
Vera Dubina (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 the Second World War], Zhurnal issledovanij social'noj politiki [The Journal of Social Policy Studies]. 13, №3, 2015, S. 437-450.
Vera Dubina (2011) Boleznennaya tema istorii vtoroj mirovoi voiny. Pamiat o seksualnom nasilii s russkoi i nemezkoi storon. [Embarrassing topic of the history of the Second World War: Memory about sexual violence from Russian and German sides]. In: Vestnik RGGU [Russian State University of Humanities Bulletin] // B.17. pp. 47-56. (emphasis added) http://www.perspektivy.info/print.php?ID=55536
Vera Dubina (2011) "The subtle differences": Russian nobility and Russian elites in the European context. In: aristocratic history and elite studies. (Eds. Lubos Velek and Milos Reznik). Prague. S. 79-95.
Vera Dubina (2011) "V lasarete bylo tak teplo i spokoino": iz vospomimamii odnogo uchenika ["It has been so quiet in the hospital": from the memoir of a student]. In: Russkai Medizina vo vremia voiny i mira [Russian medicine in war and peace]. St. Petersburg Academy of Science. St. Petersburg. P.21-36
Vera Dubina (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. №32, С.203-211.
Vera Dubina (2010) Vospitanie skukoj: obhoyhdenie s emozijami d obrazovanii rossiskogo dvorjanstva v seredine 19 veka. [Education through boredom: Dealing with emotions in education the Russian nobles in the middle 19th century]. In: Rossiskaia Imperia chuvstv: podhody k kulturnoi istorii emozii. [In the Realm of Russian Feelings: Approaches to the Cultural History of Emotions] Plamper, Jan (ed.). Moscow, NLO. S. 151-165.
Vera Dubina (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, Methaphorgeschichte]. Translation from German into Russian. Moscow, pp.298-319.
Dubina V., Polskoy S. (2009) Osobyi put russkogo dvorjanstva rossiskoi i zapadnoevropeiskoi istoriographii ["Special path" of Russian aristocracy in Russian and Western European historiography]. In: Nzvestia samarskogo nauchnogo zentra rossiskoi akademii nauk [Nightshows of the Samara Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Science],. B.11, № 2, PP. 227 - 234.
Vera Dubina (2008) "The Distinction": Russian nobility and Russian elites in a European context. (18th- 19th Century). In: Evolution and Social History. V.7, # 2, September, P.81-100.
Vera Dubina (2008) Budnichnye problemy povsednevnoi istorii: rasgovor s prof. Luedtke o sovremennyh problemah povsednevnoi istorii ["Everyday" questions of everyday history: the conversation with prof. Alf Lüdtke about modern state and development of everyday history]. In: Ezhegodnik sozialnoj istorii 2007 [Yearbooks of Social History], Moscow, 2008. p. 55-66.
Preparation and editing of anthologies
- Andrei Zavadski/Vera Dubina (eds.) (2021): Vse v proshlom: teoriya i praktik publichnoi istorii [All Things Past: Theory and Practice of Public History]. Moscow, Novoe izdatelstvo.
- War and Peace. The First World War and its Influence on the Formation of Democracy and the Development of Social Order. With the contributions of Jörn Leonhard, Dietrich Beyrau, Egbert Jahn etc. Moscow, 2015. (Editor of the Russian edition and introduction).
- Everyday life under later socialism: German-Russian perspectives. With contributions by Jahn Behrends, Thomas Lindenberger, Renate Hütgen, Nikolai Petrov etc. Moscow, ROSPEN. 2015. (Co-editor of the Russian edition and introduction).
- 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).
- Conservatism in Transition: European Tradition and Russian Experience. Samara 2002 (editor in collaboration with Ruth Büttner and Michael Leonov).
- Political and Cultural Relations of Russia and the Baltic Region States. Samara 2001 (edited in cooperation with Lars Banzhaf and Michael Leonov).
Research Grants
2022 - Research Center Eastern Europe University of Bremen, Research Fellowship Alumni Program of the AvH Foundation
2018 - Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen scholarship in the framework of "Memory work" program of the Stiftung Aufarbeitung des SED Diktatur (Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship)
2014 - Zenrtum for Literary Research Berlin, Research Fellowships
2008 -2009 Institute for European History Mainz, Post Doc Research Fellowships.
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 Fellowship
2002 - 2003 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Federal Chancellor Fellowship for Future Executives
2002 German Academic Exchange Service Short-term fellowship for a research stay at Bielefeld University
1999 - 2000 Research Support Scheme (Soros Foundation) Research Fellowships
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 Center for German and European Studies St. Petersburg, Faculty Fellow
2001 Central European University (Budapest) Curriculum Research Centre