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".
"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”.
"Precarious Privileges: Polish Refugees between Poland, Austria and Canada in the Long Nineteen-Eighties".
"Comrades in Arms: A Global History of Czechoslovakia's Weapons Industry, 1954-1994".
Liberalism – Neoliberalism – Illiberalism: Capitalism after Communism and a New Surge of Collectivist Ideas // Economic Collectivism: Old and New. Lessons from the Communist and Post-Communist Experience
„Migration Regimes and Post-Socialist Transformation. The Negotiation of German-Polish Labor Migration“
ERC-funded Project: "The History of Feminist Political Thought and Women’s Rights Discourses in East Central Europe 1929-2001 (HERESSEE)"
"Modernization of Sexuality and the Construction of Deviance in Soviet Lithuania (MoSeLit)"
"Knocking on the Vatican’s Gates. Refugees, the Holy See, and the Spectre of Communism, 1945-1958”
During the academic year 2023/24, Dr. Nguyễn Vũ is on leave at Harvard University.
"Strange but Familiar: The Global Microhistory of Contacts between Poland and Vietnam (1955-1989)", Coordinator of the Migration & Mobility Reading Group
"Learning the market: Czech and Slovak visual media, private enterprise and middle-class imaginations, 1980-2000"
"Making a New World? China and the end of the European Cold War, 1979-1991".
The mutual perception between Russian Germans and post-Soviet Jews in the Federal Republic of Germany
"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
“Future transformed. Scientific Future Studies in Poland under late- and post-socialism”.
"Post-Soviet Authoritarianism in Azerbaijan and Belarus: Opposition and Regime Consolidation"
County revolution or revolution in a county? Biographies and Practices of Political Actors in the Warsaw Voivodship, 1944–1956
“Recasting the Ideological Composition of Christian Democracy in Postwar Czechoslovakia”
"Transformations from Below: Shipyards and Labour Relations in the Uljanik (Croatia) and Gdynia (Poland) since the 1980s".
„Photography and Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Literatures“
"Cars for the East: The Informal Car Market in Poland, 1980-1990s";
"The Mauthausen Networks: A New Perspective on Post-War Europe"
“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".
"Soviet Psychiatry in Domestic Politics and International Networks".
"The Authoritarian Challenge of Politically Biased International Election Observation".
"Visual Art Practices and Projects of Wartime Ukraine: From Cruel Reality to Cruel Optimism"
“Russian Invasion and Shia Muslims of Ukraine”
"Ukrainian Migrants in Poland: Discourse, Perceptions and Implications for Self-Identification"
Assistance in administration, event management, research, and PR
PR & social media coordination, assistance in science communication
Student Project Assistant for the ERC-funded Project: "The History of Feminist Political Thought and Women’s Rights Discourses in East Central Europe 1929-2001 (HERESSEE)"
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)
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
"Temporarily Displaced Persons from Ukraine in the European Union: Social Adaptation and Labour Market Integration"
"Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism"
"Thinking a New Order: Strategic Thinking in/for the East Central Europe (1989-2022)".
“Five "Rooms" of modern Ukrainian literature: War memory”
Trans-(semi)peripherality? Skilled Migration from Poland to Central Eastern Europe.
“Return of Refugees and Employment Creation in a Post-War Reconstruction: Lessons for Ukraine from Balkan Experience”.
"Agents of Globalisation. Yugoslav Enterprises between Nonaligned Transnationalism and Socialism"
"Dialogic class formation through cultural consumption: Towards comparative cultural history of postsocialism"
“Impacts of Ukrainian Refugees on the Social and Economic Life of Austria”.
"Transforming Humanities in Independent Ukraine: A Case of Philosophy"
"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".
