Contributors ix
Olga Nikonova is a professor of history at South Ural State University
in Chelyabinsk, which has the status of a national research university in
Russia. She is head of the department for “Domestic and Foreign History”
and deputy head of the international research laboratory for migration
studies. She has published widely on twentieth-century Russian history.
Tanja Penter is a professor of Eastern European history at Heidelberg
University in Germany. She has extensively published on twentiethcentury Soviet and post-Soviet history and has participated in a trilateral
research cooperation on “Nuclear Technopolitics in the Soviet Union”
between the universities Heidelberg, Tübingen and Bern. She is a member
of the German-Russian and the German-Ukrainian Commission of
Historians and of the scientific advisory board of the German Historical
Institute in Moscow.
Sophie Roche is a research associate and lecturer in ethnography at the
Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) at the University of Heidelberg.
She was deputy professor in social anthropology of Islam at the Goethe
University of Frankfurt in 2018. Between 2013 and 2017, she has led the
junior research group “The Demographic Turn in the Junction of Cultures”
at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at the
University of Heidelberg. She worked at the Max Planck Institute for Social
Anthropology in Germany and received her PhD from the Martin-Luther
University Halle-Wittenberg. She has extensive ethnographic experiences
in Tajikistan since 2002 and has published two monographs on Tajikistan,
including her habilitation thesis “The Faceless Terrorist. A Relational
Approach to Jihad and Terrorism in Tajikistan” (2019).
Laura Sembritzki is a postdoctoral researcher and librarian at Bielefeld
University. She has finished a PhD dissertation at the University of Heidelberg
in 2018 titled “Nuclear Disasters and Radiation Protection. Nuclear
Knowledge and Technopolitics in the Chelyabinsk Region, 1949–1991.”
She was also a member of the research cluster on “nuclear technopolitics in
the Soviet Union” at the universities Tübingen, Bern, and Heidelberg.
Olga Nikonova is a professor of history at South Ural State University
in Chelyabinsk, which has the status of a national research university in
Russia. She is head of the department for “Domestic and Foreign History”
and deputy head of the international research laboratory for migration
studies. She has published widely on twentieth-century Russian history.
Tanja Penter is a professor of Eastern European history at Heidelberg
University in Germany. She has extensively published on twentiethcentury Soviet and post-Soviet history and has participated in a trilateral
research cooperation on “Nuclear Technopolitics in the Soviet Union”
between the universities Heidelberg, Tübingen and Bern. She is a member
of the German-Russian and the German-Ukrainian Commission of
Historians and of the scientific advisory board of the German Historical
Institute in Moscow.
Sophie Roche is a research associate and lecturer in ethnography at the
Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) at the University of Heidelberg.
She was deputy professor in social anthropology of Islam at the Goethe
University of Frankfurt in 2018. Between 2013 and 2017, she has led the
junior research group “The Demographic Turn in the Junction of Cultures”
at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at the
University of Heidelberg. She worked at the Max Planck Institute for Social
Anthropology in Germany and received her PhD from the Martin-Luther
University Halle-Wittenberg. She has extensive ethnographic experiences
in Tajikistan since 2002 and has published two monographs on Tajikistan,
including her habilitation thesis “The Faceless Terrorist. A Relational
Approach to Jihad and Terrorism in Tajikistan” (2019).
Laura Sembritzki is a postdoctoral researcher and librarian at Bielefeld
University. She has finished a PhD dissertation at the University of Heidelberg
in 2018 titled “Nuclear Disasters and Radiation Protection. Nuclear
Knowledge and Technopolitics in the Chelyabinsk Region, 1949–1991.”
She was also a member of the research cluster on “nuclear technopolitics in
the Soviet Union” at the universities Tübingen, Bern, and Heidelberg.