Andreas Umland
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Andreas Umland | |
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| Born | 1967 (age 58–59) |
| Alma mater | Leipzig University Freie Universität Berlin University of Cambridge |
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| Fields | Political science |
| Institutions | National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Ural State University Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt |
Andreas Umland (born 1967) is a German political scientist studying contemporary Russian and Ukrainian history as well as regime transitions. He has published on the post-Soviet extreme right, municipal decentralization, European fascism, post-communist higher education, East European geopolitics, Ukrainian and Russian nationalism, the Donbas and Crimea conflicts, as well as the neighborhood and enlargement policies of the European Union. He is a Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv as well as a research fellow at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs in Stockholm.[1] He lives in Kyiv, and teaches as an Associate Professor of Politics at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In 2005–2014, he was involved in the creation of a Master's program in German and European Studies administered jointly by the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Jena University.[2]
In January–December 2004, he was a Temporary Lecturer in Russian and East European Studies, at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St.Antony's College Oxford.[3]
Umland was a German Academic Exchange Service Lecturer at the Institute of International Relations of Kyiv Shevchenko University, in 2005–2008, as well as department of political science of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, in 2010–2014. In 2008–2010, Umland was a senior lecturer (Akademischer Rat) in Contemporary East European History at the Faculty of Historical and Social Studies at Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Bavaria, and, in 2019–2021, an adjunct professor (Lehrbeauftragter) of Post-Soviet Affairs at the Institute of Political Science at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena.[4]
In 2014, he became a senior fellow at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation in Kyiv, in 2019, a Nonresident Fellow at the Center for European Politics of the Institute of International Relations in Prague, and, in 2020, a Senior Expert at the Program for European, Regional and Russian Studies of the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv as well as a Research Fellow at the Russia and Eurasia Program of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm.[5][6][7]
As of January 2024[update] Umland is an analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies, part of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.[8]
Membership
- Board of Trustees of the Boris Nemtsov Academic Center for the Study of Russia at Prague;[9]
- Board of Directors of COMFAS – The International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies in Budapest;[10]
- Advisory Council of the NGO "Rights in Russia" in Somerset, UK;[11]
- Board of Advisors of the Andrei Sakharov Research Center for Democratic Development in Kaunas;[12]
- Circle of Friends of the German-Ukrainian Platform "Kyiv Dialogue" in Berlin;[13]
- KomRex – The Center for Right-Wing Extremism Studies, Democracy Education and Social Integration in Jena;[14]
Editor
Umland has been the founder and general editor of the scholarly book series Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (est. in 2004) as well as founder and collector of the book series Ukrainian Voices (est. in 2019) published by ibidem-Verlag at Stuttgart / Hannover and distributed by Columbia University Press.[15][16][17]
