Staff
Director of studies: Florence Fröhlig
Administrative staff: Vit Kysilka
Doctoral students and other employees:
Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies
MD458
Doctoral student, Sociology
Social Sciences
ME229B
![Luisa Bandeira Coelho](/download/18.1cb9920c18c808695a082fc/1703100846122/948a15da-7090-4299-8bbb-7a3959ba7958.jpg)
My research is about Deaf experiences in the Health and well-being field and civil society.
Social Sciences
ME004
Hamdija Begovic
Doctoral Student
Doctoral student; political sociology
Social Sciences
ME229B
I conduct research on nationalism, state-building processes, and international affairs.
Social Sciences
Doctoral Student in Sociology. Research focus: Consequences of policiary measures against radical nationalist social movements
Social Sciences
ME229B
![Thea Bisander](/download/18.1e19563d18c6327a77cb706/1702645389837/field3.jpg)
I am a PhD student in Environmental Scienes. In my research I study greenhouse gas exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere, specifically in coastal regions.
Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies
MD471
I am a PhD student in History of Ideas since the autumn semester of 2021. In my PhD thesis, I am examining 19th century works on the history of philosophy.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F827
Johanna Björksten
Doctoral student and lecturer at the Department of Social Work. My research concerns intimate partner violence.
Social Sciences
ME004
Mikael Cleryd
Doctoral Student
My thesis explores journalists' work-related emotions, how journalists navigate their feelings alongside professional norms and the effect of emotional labor on their well-being.
Social Sciences
ME353
![Mats Dahllöv](/download/18.90935ab18df2a6c90d1f84e/1709654565291/Profilbild_1.jpg)
My thesis "Det absoluta och det gemensamma" ("The Absolute and the Common" is the first interpretation of the philosophy of art of the Swedish Idealist Benjamin Höijer (1767–1812).
Culture and Education
![Joakim Ekman](/download/18.1c02775718e5a761add2b710/1711266023728/JE.png)
Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)
MA789
Tomas Englund
Research Assistant
Phd student.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
Anna Enström
PhD
Senior Lecturer
![Vera Ericson von Bahr](/download/18.5b15592a182e985be1146702/1662974327869/Bild%20Vera.jpg)
Claudia Gioia
Doctoral Student
![Alessandra Giolo](/download/18.2150a5ea18b86291b8f196cb/1699264105805/CV%20picture%20copy.png)
PhD candidate in Environmental Science. Addressing global environmental challenges by an interdisciplinary approach. M.Sc. in Environmental Science M.Sc. in Economic History
Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies
MD473
![Yulia Gradskova](/download/18.3c8e17e51898e1d0c178f0ff/1692350628202/7YuliaGradskova02.jpg)
I am the PI in the project "Maternity in the time of "traditional values" and femonationalism" supported by the ÖSS. I am also research coordinator at CBEES.
Culture and Education
MA722
![Saga Hansén](/download/18.778c0c961817ff0b76a457a4/1656908368127/IMG_9525%5B1257%5D.jpg)
Doctoral student in Media and Communication Studies / BEEGS. Writing a dissertation on cultural valuation practices, education media and digitization in Sweden and Estonia.
Culture and Education
PC205
![Nathalie Hinders](/download/18.48224d7718f9eb9d2853d3cb/1717491472485/Presentationsbild_N.Hinders_II%20(002).jpg)
My research concern stone age ceramic craft at wetland sites around the Baltic Sea, in particular Alvastra pile dwelling in Sweden.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F824
![Roman Horbyk](/images/18.3890e1c517597b89c5cb51f/1604770832871/roman_horbyk_foto_PRESS__annahartvig_1.jpg)
I am a media researcher whose work is mainly on fake news, media and war, history of media and culture, primarily in Eastern Europe
Culture and Education
PC247
Ellen Jacobsson
Doctoral Student
I am a doctoral student in the theory of practical knowledge. My research investigates the conditions and assumptions for practices of integration and their knowledge.
Culture and Education
PD211
On leave
![Liza Jakobsson](/download/18.5ca43c8e1900c6e8b43329e1/1718892313039/20240620_155408.jpg)
Liza Jakobsson
Doctoral Student
Research: organization, social movements, civil society. Participate in the Horizon-project "Co-Creating Inclusive Intersectional Democratic Spaces Across Europe": ccindle.org
Social Sciences
ME218
Vit Kysilka
Officer
I am a PhD student in business studies. My research concerns the regulatory development of anti-money laundering supervision in Sweden, Denmark, and Estonia from the 2000s onwards.
Social Sciences
ME551
![Karin Larsson](/download/18.49468e17188b9f519ed56391/1688056956009/IMG_1829.jpeg)
Karin Larsson
Doctoral Student
I am a doctoral student in Media and Communications Studies. I write my dissertation on time, space and technology in the architectural renewal of Moscow 2010-2020.
Culture and Education
PC205
![Nicholas Lawrence](/download/18.518265ac1898bf0dadba4457/1692616888609/13nicholaslawrence01.jpg)
Nicholas Lawrence
Doctoral Student
![Michael Levin](/download/18.16fc068e18d2a6eb1ce153cb/1706195739114/Enlight76.jpg)
Michael Levin
Lecturer
Lecturer in business administration My courses: method course (A) and organisational theory (B) Research interests: organisational studies, cooperatives.
Social Sciences
ME511
Xiaoying Li
Doctoral Student
![Gustav Lundberg](/download/18.1c02775718e5a761adda54f6/1712141237165/portrait%20photo.jpg)
Gustav Lundberg
Doctoral Student
![Jay Lunze](/download/18.3b46ec8618d2a9658ef178ec/1706174823072/Profil.jpg)
Doctoral researcher in the History of Ideas. My focus is on how time was contextualized in the Baltic Region 1500 to 1800.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
MA795A
![Douglas Mattsson](/download/18.48224d7718f9eb9d2852a7/1716360750971/ims_gruppbild_06%5B93%5D.jpeg)
My main research interests deal with subcultures and religion in contemporary Muslim majority societies. I am currently resaerching the black metal music scene in Turkey.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1001
![Tony Mickelsson Blomqvist](/download/18.34dcdd8d18d54a5540b20a32/1707063734408/387530763_164057320114000_5996428166707098083_n.jpg)
My research interests include sport, migration, and psychosocial development. My research is multidisciplinary and moves between individual- and organizational levels of these matt
Social Sciences
ME127
In my PhD project I study the relation between peace as a literary theme and the modern/colonial narrative in works by Frida Stéenhoff, Elin Wägner, and Hagar Olsson.
Culture and Education
PA204A
I study social-spatial inequalities in segregated urban areas and the role of urban planning in advancing environmental and social justice in marginalized communities.
Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies
MD473
![Nha Nguyen](/download/18.6b98cdfa18a8d1ddac2be34/1694778781443/IMG_3042.jpeg)
My PhD focuses on experiences of border-crossing, sexual violence and agency among Vietnamese undocumented immigrant women.
Culture and Education
MA714
Iwo Nord
I am a PhD-student as well as teacher in Gender Studies. My doctoral project is an ethnographic study of Belgrade as a local and global place for medical transition.
Culture and Education
I am researching the Swedish foreign policy engagement in the Baltic region, from 1914 to 1940. Both public opinion and the Swedish government's foreign policy are studied.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F931
![Pejvak Oghazi](/download/18.3d9295cf1900c5413654d94a/1719141660111/01073%20(1).jpg)
Dr.Pejvak Oghazi is Professor and head of department of Business Studies. He is also head of Logistic Program at Sodertorn University, School of Social Sciences.
Social Sciences
ME547
![Ella Petrini](/download/18.5f3d397d18b84eca2511e1bb/1699308885443/Ella_Petrini02_kopia.jpg)
My PhD-thesis investigates the links between working conditions and environmental impact of industrial forestry, and the relations between trade unions and environmentalists.
Social Sciences
ME222
Doctoral student in the theory of practical knowledge. I'm writing a thesis on Swedish and Finnish teachers' lived experience of boredom.
Culture and Education
PD229
![Aleksandra Reczuch](/download/18.7df26d4218d1cdcc0ed5238/1705669363434/342955078_3311928412357948_8835446714368452315_n.jpg)
PhD-candidate in Ethnology at the Baltic and Eastern European Graduate School. My research interests include populism, political anthropology, state policies, gender, and identity.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F1026
![Jane Ruffino](/download/18.726a2e0d17ffb5702d3291d/1649252631439/1607694786192.jpeg)
Néa Sedell
Doctoral Student
Doctoral student in Aesthetics. My dissertation project explores literary embodiments and theoretical conceptualizations of melancholy in the late writings of E.M. Cioran.
Culture and Education
MA716
![Patrick Spets](/download/18.caaa7f018bcc1d1a39ab4f/1700133040104/Profilfoto.jpg)
![Victor Trofimov](/download/18.32594aac18bf5d761b92cd78/1701439606683/6_Victor_Trofimov02_l%3Fg.jpg)
My dissertation is an investigation of digital sex labor in webcamming in Russia in the context of the country's neoliberal labor market and the neo-traditionalist sexual politics.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
MA795A
Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies
MD473
![Yuliya Yurchuk](/download/18.ec9219e18d8279f46f1ccca/1707831485056/5.jpg)
I am historian specialising on nationalism, memory, religion, history of knowledge and history of science and ideas, with the main fokus on Ukraine, Eastern and Central Europe.
Historical and Contemporary Studies
F828
![Kseniia Zakharova](/download/18.388db3a18c80b85fdebe1/1702977911142/Namnl%3Fs10.jpg)
I am a Doctoral student in environmental science. My interest is to study the relationships between people's aesthetic perception of landscapes and biodiversity.
Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies
MD266