Susanne Bauer is a professor of Science and Technologies Studies (STS) at
the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of
Oslo, Norway. With a dual background in environmental health sciences
and sociology of knowledge, she has worked on Soviet nuclear legacies
both as a radiation epidemiologist and as an STS scholar. She held a visiting
professorship at Indiana University Bloomington and senior fellowships at
the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna and at
the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
Eva Castringius is a researcher and artist based in Berlin, Germany, working
on anthropogenic landscapes in an interplay of photography, video, and
installation. She obtained her PhD from the Hamburg University of
Fine Arts in 2020 and was a member in the doctorate graduate program
“Aesthetics of the Virtual,” 2015–2017. Eva Castringius holds a degree in
Fine Arts from the Hochschule der Künste Berlin (1999) and has been
awarded numerous awards and fellowships, including the Karl-Hofer-Preis
and scholarships at Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, and The Banff Centre, Banff
(Alberta, Canada). Her work featured in numerous exhibitions (including
Museum Gropius Bau, Berlin; Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen;
South Kinross Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles).
Stefan Guth is a postdoctoral researcher in Eastern European history and
project coordinator of the research cluster “Nuclear Technopolitics in the
Soviet Union” at the University of Tübingen. In his habilitation project,
Guth has investigated the Atomic City of Shevchenko/Aktau in Western
Kazakhstan between 1959 and 2019. He was a research fellow at the Center
for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Stanford University
and at the Aleksanteri-Institut of the University of Helsinki.
Bettina Kaibach is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in Slavic
languages and literature at the University of Heidelberg. She was a visiting
fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard
University and received a German grant of excellency for her translation
of Isaak Babel’s works. She has completed research on the “Iconography of
Auschwitz and Hiroshima in Eastern European Arts and Media.”
Contributors
the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of
Oslo, Norway. With a dual background in environmental health sciences
and sociology of knowledge, she has worked on Soviet nuclear legacies
both as a radiation epidemiologist and as an STS scholar. She held a visiting
professorship at Indiana University Bloomington and senior fellowships at
the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna and at
the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
Eva Castringius is a researcher and artist based in Berlin, Germany, working
on anthropogenic landscapes in an interplay of photography, video, and
installation. She obtained her PhD from the Hamburg University of
Fine Arts in 2020 and was a member in the doctorate graduate program
“Aesthetics of the Virtual,” 2015–2017. Eva Castringius holds a degree in
Fine Arts from the Hochschule der Künste Berlin (1999) and has been
awarded numerous awards and fellowships, including the Karl-Hofer-Preis
and scholarships at Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, and The Banff Centre, Banff
(Alberta, Canada). Her work featured in numerous exhibitions (including
Museum Gropius Bau, Berlin; Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen;
South Kinross Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles).
Stefan Guth is a postdoctoral researcher in Eastern European history and
project coordinator of the research cluster “Nuclear Technopolitics in the
Soviet Union” at the University of Tübingen. In his habilitation project,
Guth has investigated the Atomic City of Shevchenko/Aktau in Western
Kazakhstan between 1959 and 2019. He was a research fellow at the Center
for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Stanford University
and at the Aleksanteri-Institut of the University of Helsinki.
Bettina Kaibach is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in Slavic
languages and literature at the University of Heidelberg. She was a visiting
fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard
University and received a German grant of excellency for her translation
of Isaak Babel’s works. She has completed research on the “Iconography of
Auschwitz and Hiroshima in Eastern European Arts and Media.”
Contributors