Welcoming new Visiting Fellows for 2026-2027

The Aleksanteri Institute is delighted to welcome the following five scholars as Visiting Fellows for the 2026-2027 academic year:

Claudia Eggart 
Lived Geopolitics: Re-scaling Market Infrastructures from Soviet Collapse to Imperial Backlash 
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Germany 

Kristen Ghodsee 
The Gaslighting of Eastern Europe: How International Financial Institutions Disappeared the 20th Century’s Second Great Depression 
University of Pennsylvania, USA

James Paul Goode 
War, Media, and Russian Political Migrants
Carleton University , Canada

Galina Miazhevich 
Feminism in Turbulent Times: Evidence from Ukraine, Russia and Poland
Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Svitlana Pavlenko 
Scientific-Technical Contacts as Channels of Espionage: KGB Industrial Intelligence in Dnipropetrovsk, 1950s–1960s
Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia, Bulgaria

More details on each of these research projects will be available on our website in early August. The Visiting Fellows will present their work in seminars during 2026-2027, and you are warmly invited to attend.  

Read more about the Visiting Fellows Programme