Elizaveta Olkhovaia

Visiting Scholar / Memorial International
Hans Koschnick Special Scholarship

Short CV:
January - December 2023: Hans Koschnick Special Fellowship for scholars at risk from Russia (financed by US-Russia Foundation) in the Department of History and Culture of the Research Centre Eastern Europe at the University of Bremen. PhD project: Everyday experience and prison narratives: Female political prisoners in the late Soviet Union (1956-1980s)

May 2022- December 2022: Memory Work exchange stay at the Research Centre Eastern Europe at the University of Bremen, funded by the Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship.

2020-2022: Double Master’s degree from Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MA in History, Program "History of Soviet Civilization'') and University of Manchester (MA in Public History).

2020-2022: M.A. Public History at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES), in the Master's programme "History of Soviet Civilization". Thesis: Everyday life and resistance practices of Soviet political prisoners in post-Stalinism.

2012-2016: B.A. in Russian Philology at St. Petersburg State University, focus: Russian travel literature.

Since 2017: freelance work in various projects of historical education at Memorial International (Moscow), collaboration in the development of the digital archive of Memorial as well as teaching at the MSSES.