Melanie Hussinger, M.A.

• since April 2021: Research associate at the Professorship for East European and East-Central European History at Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg
• 2018-2021: Student assistant at the Leibniz Institute for Eastern and South-Eastern European Research, Regensburg
• 2017-2020: Master’s degree programme in Eastern European Studies at the University of Regensburg. Final thesis topic (M.A.): “Ein Name, ein Leben ein Zeichen. Historisches Gedenken im zivilgesellschaftlichen Projekt Poslednij Adres” (A name, a life, a sign: Historical commemoration in the civil society project Poslednij Adres”) (awarded the 2nd Regensburg award for excellent final theses in the field of area studies)
• 2016: Semester abroad at the state university in Ivanovo, Russia (Russian literature, culture and history)
• 2013-2017: Bachelor’s degree programme in European Studies (B.A.) at the University of Passau

Dissertation project:

Poslednij Adres (die Letzte Adresse) im Kontext post-sozialistischer Erinnerungskulturen (Poslednij Adres (the Last Address) in the context of post-Socialist commemorative cultures)

• Erinnerungskultur und –politik in Osteuropa (Commemorative culture and politics in Eastern Europe)
  Zivilgesellschaftliche Bewegungen in der Perstrojka (Civil society movements in perestroika)
• Praktiken des Erinnerns und Gedenkens in der Sowjetunion und Russland (Remembrance and commemoration practices in the Soviet Union and Russia)
• Stalinismus und Aufarbeitung (Stalinism and coming to terms with the past)