Schattenberg, Susanne, Prof. Dr.
Contemporary History and Culture of Eastern Europe / Forschungsstelle Osteuropa
Position: Director, Forschungsstelle Osteuropa
E-mail: schattenberg(at)uni-bremen.de
Tel.: 0049 (0)421–218 69600
Room: OEG 3560
Office hours on individual appointment
Office:
E-mail: fso(at)uni-bremen.de
Tel.: 0049 (0)421–218 69600
Room: OEG 3560
Individual homepage of Prof. Dr. Susanne Schattenberg
Brief biography
Born: Hamburg, 1969.
1988–1995: Studied History, Slavic Studies and Psychology in Hamburg, Leningrad und Konstanz
1995–96: Worked at the Haus der Geschichte der BRD (Museum of the Federal Republic of Germany), Bonn
1996–99: Scholarship, research training group “Representation – Rhetoric – Knowledge: the Foundation of Cultural Studies” in Frankfurt an der Oder
1999: Awarded doctorate under Karl Schlögel, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), with a thesis on Stalin’s Engineers
2000–2001: Researcher, University of Erlangen as part of the DFG project “Officials and Officers. The Identity of Russian Civil Servants in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century”
2001–2002: Researcher, Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam
2002–2008: Researcher, Chair for the History of Eastern Europe, Humboldt University of Berlin
2006: Habilitation, Humboldt University of Berlin with a study of Russian officials in the nineteenth century
Winter Semester 2007/08: Deputy Professor of Eastern European History, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
Summer Semester 2008: Deputy Professor of Eastern European History, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
Since October 2008: Director of the Research Centre for East European Studies and Professor of Contemporary History and Culture of Eastern Europe, University of Bremen
Societies, boards and committees
2016–2018: Board member, Centre Marc Bloch
Board member of the German–Polish Society, Bremen
Member of the comité scientifique, Revue d’études comparatives est-ouest
Associate Editor, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
Co-editor, Dokupedia
Member of the ProFiL Network – Women’s Professionalisation in Research and Teaching
2003–2008: Member of the editorial board for Eastern Europe of H-SOZ-KULT
Member of the programming committee for the conferences of the German Poland Research organisation
2010–2018: member, until recently chair, of the Academic Advisory Board of the German Historical Institute Moscow
Research foci
The late Soviet Union:
- The party leaders Khruščev and Brežnev
- Dissent and consent
- Homo sovieticus
- Cultural History of Foreign Policy (1815–1991)
- Worlds of Contradiction
- Europe and the Soviet Tap: Oil and Gas Trading with East and West in the Cold War
- Gosplan or How the Soviet Union Did Business