Social and economic history of Europe and global transformations since the late 1980s. Founder of RECET with his Wittgenstein Prize.
At the moment he guides two comparative research projects on shipyards in eastern Europe and on volunteerism before and after 1989.
Gender history and history of everyday life in state socialist societies after World War II, postcolonial perspectives on post-socialism.
She directs a German-Polish research project (DFG/NCN) about “Rooms for Manoeuvre in State Socialism”.
Migration history, Transnational and Comparative history.
He currently works on a project entitled “Liberal Global Orders and Freedom of Movement.” He also guides a research project on post-Soviet immigrant communities in Germany.
General administration, budgeting, reporting, event management, office management, public relations, social media.
Producer of the Transformative Podcast.
Economic Collectivism: Old and New. Lessons from the Communist and Post-Communist Experience.
"The search for the "good life" in Germany (Osnabrück)".
"Stories Of/In Transformation. Literary Narratives of Transformation and Inequality in Post-Socialist Poland".
"From 'perspective planning' to 'strategic adjustment'. Polish Future Research in the transformation from state-socialism to market economy, 1980-2000".
"Agents of Globalisation. Yugoslav Enterprises between Nonaligned Transnationalism and Socialism"
“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“
"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".
"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".
"Intervision: Popular Music and Politics in Eastern Europe"
"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
"Dialogic class formation through cultural consumption: Towards comparative cultural history of postsocialism"
"The Return of National Pride: Competitive Authoritarianism and Transformations of Postsocialist Memory Politics".
"Transformations from Below: Shipyards and Labour Relations in the Uljanik (Croatia) and Gdynia (Poland) since the 1980s".
„Photography and Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Literatures“
"Modernization of Sexuality and the Construction of Deviance in Soviet Lithuania (MoSeLit)"
"A Sovereign Globalization: The Making of America's Economic Entanglement with China during the 1980s"
"Soviet Psychiatry in Domestic Politics and International Networks".
"Nobody wins a nuclear war’: the last Cold War crisis and protest from below, 1979-1984".