About me
Margarita Pavlova is a doctoral student and researcher in History and Cultural Studies at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus-Liebig University Giessen. She obtained a Master of Arts degree in Comparative History from Central European University (Budapest) and a Bachelor of Arts in History from National Research University "Higher School of Economics" (Saint Petersburg).
Currently, she is a member of the Cultural Memory Studies Research Area and Europe’s East Working Group. Her research project focuses on the development of sociocultural self-organization and the forms of (a)political protests in late Soviet Russia. Since February 2021 she also functions as an editorial team member of On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture.
Dissertation working title: Cultural in Form, Political in Content: Sociocultural Associations of Leningrad Underground in Gorbachev’s Russia
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Bohn