Dr. Elisa Satjukow

Dr. Elisa Satjukow (Germany)

Research Fellow, Leipzig University
Program: 
Visegrad Scholarship at OSA
Attendance Period: 
Mar/2023 - Apr/2023
Research Title: 
The Role of East and Southeast European Studies in the Transformations of the 1980/1990s
Research Description: 

1989 marked a turning point for East and Southeast European Studies. As political advisors and academic bridge-builders, experts for these regions took on essential ad-hoc and long-term tasks in the transformation process. At the same time, the end of the Cold War challenged them to renegotiate the institutional and discursive self-understanding of historical, contemporary, and future research on Eastern and Southeastern Europe. My historiographical project asks about the agency and agenda of scholars of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, and in particular of Slavic and historical studies, in post-Cold War Europe.

Bio: 
Elisa Satjukow is a postdoctoral researcher and a lecturer for the History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe at the Department of History at Leipzig University. She completed her PhD on the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia in 2020 and works in the fields of (post)socialism, gender, history of science, memory studies, and postcolonial theory.