Ulrike Ziemer

Biography

Ulrike joined the University of Winchester from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London, where she was Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2009-2011) in Migration and Diasporic Citizenship in Russia and Eastern Europe at the Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies (CEELBAS). Prior to this, Ulrike received her PhD from the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies (CREES) at the European Research Institute, University of Birmingham in 2008.

Research Interest

​Ulrike's research interests lie in the sociologies of gender, migration and diasporas, with a particular focus on transnationalism and cosmopolitanism in Russia and Southern Caucasus. Her research explores the processes of social transformation in the former Soviet Union. Ulrike is currently conducting research on women and political transformations in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.