PhD students

MEET OUR PHD STUDENTS

LILIA SABLINA

Lilia Sablina is a PhD candidate at Nationalism Studies and Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations joint doctoral program. Her doctoral project aims to explore individual pathways beyond diaspora right-wing mobilization in Germany and patterns of online radicalism, based on the example of the Russian-speaking and Polish-speaking minority groups in Germany. Lilia is a graduate of the Nationalism Studies Program, Central European University (2019) and of the history department at the Higher School of Economics in Russia (2016). She was a member of various research projects in the fields of sociology, history and political science. She is also a new chair of the Migration Research Group at CEU. 

QUALIFICATION 

BA (2012-2016) – History department, Higher School of Economics in Russia  

MA (2017-2019) – Nationalism Studies Program, Central European University  

PhD program (since 2019) – Joint Doctoral Fellowship, Nationalism Studies Program and Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations 

THESIS  

Exposure to Refugees and the Subsequent Change in Ethnic Landscapes: Investigating Local Networks of Solidarity and Anti-refugee Mobilization.  The case study of Russian- and Polish-speaking minorities in Germany. 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS 

“We Should Stop the Islamisation of Europe!”: Islamophobia and Right-Wing Radicalism of the Russian-Speaking Internet Users in Germany. Nationalities Papers, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2019.76 

Imperial Agony or Pan-Continental Future: Classical Eurasianism as a Global ideology, 1920-30s. Global Histories, no. 1, 2017, pp. 2 – 18 
Is ‘E’ for ‘EMPIRE’?: Re-imagining New Russian Identity Through Symbolic Politics o‘Sochi-2014,’ Russian Journal of Communication (RRJC): http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/10.1080/19409419.2017.1262206?scroll=top&needAccess=true  (Together with Sergey Akopov, Christina Aslanyan, Polina Slusarchuk)

The Second or the Fourth World: Critique of Communism and Colonialism in Contemporary North Asian Literature, Ab Imperio, no. 2, 2016, pp. 385–425 (together with Ivan Sablin)

SUPERVISORS 

Szabolcs Pogonyi 

Erin Kristin Jenne 

RELATED LINKS 

Academia.edu Profile 

ResearchGate 

EmailSablina_liliia@phd.ceu.edu 

 

NINO GOZALISHVILI

Nino Gozalishvili is a PhD candidate at Nationalism Studies and Comparative History joint doctoral program. Her main research areas are: Post-Socialist transformations and the processes of democratization and Europeanization;  contemporary history of nationalism and national-populism in Central and Eastern Europe with the sub-regional focus on South-Caucasus.  Currently she is researching the diffusion and adaptation of right-wing populist discourses cross-nationally in Eastern Europe from the 1980s onward.  She is a graduate of CEU Nationalism Studies program and Tbilisi State University, department of International Relations. She was a visiting student at the University of Warsaw Department of Political Sciences and at European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) – at the department of Social and Cultural Studies. 

QUALIFICATION
Enrolled in Comparative History-Nationalism Studies Joint Doctoral Program
MA in Nationalism Studies, CEU
BA in International Relations, Tbilisi State University
THESIS
Transnationalization for National Purposes: Traces in National-
Populist Discourses in Post-Communist Georgia.
 
SUPERVISOR