Social and economic history of Europe and global transformations since the late 1980s. Founder of RECET. Recipient of the Wittgenstein Prize.
"Transforming Rights: Entangled Debates about Gender Equality during and after the Cold War".
Migration history, Transnational and Comparative history.
Current project: “Liberal Global Orders and Freedom of Movement.” He also guides a research project on post-Soviet immigrant communities in Germany.
General administration, budgeting, event management, office management, PR & social media. Science communication.
Producer of the Transformative Podcast.
"The search for the "good life" in Germany (Osnabrück)".
"Stories Of/In Transformation. Literary Narratives of Transformation and Inequality in Post-Socialist Poland".
"Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism"
“Future transformed. Scientific Future Studies in Poland under late- and post-socialism”.
"Agents of Globalisation. Yugoslav Enterprises between Nonaligned Transnationalism and Socialism"
"Exporting the Yugoslav Revolution: Veterans, Memory and Transnational Networks of Solidarity during the Cold War".
"Transforming Memories: processes of negotiation within Jewish Communities in Berlin"
"Soviet war memorials and global networks".
“A Breach in the System: The ‘Polonia Firms’ 1976-1994”.
"Transnational biographies: Patterns of migration of Polish asylum seekers between Poland, Germany, Austria and North America after 1968".
"Comrades in Arms: A Global History of Czechoslovakia's Weapons Industry, 1954-1994".
"Cars for the East: The (Il)legal Car Market in Poland, 1980-1990s".
„Migration Regimes and Post-Socialist Transformation. The Negotiation of German-Polish Labor Migration“
"Modernization of Sexuality and the Construction of Deviance in Soviet Lithuania (MoSeLit)"
"Strange but Familiar: The Global Microhistory of Contacts between Poland and Vietnam (1955-1989)"
Coordinator of the Migration & Mobility Reading Group
"Making a New World? China and the end of the European Cold War, 1979-1991".
"Soviet Psychiatry in Domestic Politics and International Networks".
"Transformation in Eastern Germany on the Example of VEB Werk für Fernsehelektronik" (working title)
"A Historical Reassessment of Economic Reforms at the Soviet Union’s Western Fringes, 1987–1991".
"Volunteering in Local Communities between Late Socialism and Liberal Capitalism: The History of Volunteer Fire Departments in Germany and East Central Europe, 1980-2000".
"State-Socialist Citizenship and its Collapse in Poland: Rewriting Postwar History from Below"
Coordinator of the Transformative Blog
"Temporarily Displaced Persons from Ukraine in the European Union: Social Adaptation and Labour Market Integration"
Trans-(semi)peripherality? Skilled Migration from Poland to Central Eastern Europe.
“Impacts of Ukrainian Refugees on the Social and Economic Life of Austria”.
"Transformations from Below: Shipyards and Labour Relations in the Uljanik (Croatia) and Gdynia (Poland) since the 1980s".
"Transforming Humanities in Independent Ukraine: A Case of Philosophy"
„Photography and Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Literatures“
“Heroines of Labour and Bizneswoman.”
"Sewing the Periphery Together: European Textile Production Subcontracting and the Transformation of Labor in the Balkans and Maghreb".
"'Nobody wins a nuclear war’: the last Cold War crisis and protest from below, 1979-1984".
"The Authoritarian Challenge of Politically Biased International Election Observation".
Professor, University of Vienna
Professor, University of Warsaw
Founder and CEO, Bakamo.Social
Professor, Chair of Contemporary History, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Executive Director, Vienna Institute for International Academic Studies (wiiw)
Economic Collectivism: Old and New. Lessons from the Communist and Post-Communist Experience.
Professor, Institute for Nonprofit Management at WU Vienna
Associate Professor, Director of the Center for Research on Social Memory, Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw
"Thinking a New Order: Strategic Thinking in/for the East Central Europe (1989-2022)".
“Five "Rooms" of modern Ukrainian literature: War memory”
“Return of Refugees and Employment Creation in a Post-War Reconstruction: Lessons for Ukraine from Balkan Experience”.
"Dialogic class formation through cultural consumption: Towards comparative cultural history of postsocialism"
"Talking Borders, Telling History – Border Perceptions from Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe"
"Transformation of Czechoslovak/Czech railway sector after 1989".
“Ukraine vis-à-vis Russia and the EU: the case of the first year of the war (2014-2015)”
“Formation of the culture of lobbying in Ukraine against the background of the processes of cultural and civilizational modernization of the country”.
"An urban ethnography of ugliness: Relating past and present in Czech and Slovak cities through "visual smog".
"Trucking Europe: The Triple Transformation of European Freight Companies since the 1980s".
"The Smellscapes of Lublin. An Olfactory Urban History of the 20th Century in East Central Europe".
