Seeking contacts with anyone studying the politics of collective memories of
forced migration in Europe, specifically surrounding
- The 'expulsion' of ethnic Germans from East-Central Europe 1944-1948;
- Forced migration in Poland in the 1940s and 1950s; and
- Stalinist deportations of ethnic groups in the Soviet Union and their
remembrance in contemporary Russia
I am a doctoral student of Political Science at the University of Maryland in
the United States. My dissertation research examines the way in which
experiences of forced migration in the 1940s and 1950s are being debated and
memorialized (or silenced) in Germany, Poland, and Russia. My focus is in
particular on what I call 'memory-activists' – those individuals and
organizations in civil society which promote the recognition, commemoration,
and institutionalization of particular experiences and thereby continually
test the boundaries of collective identity and state authority. By using a
comparative approach, I hope to elucidate the relationship between the
politics of memory, democratization, and collective identity formation.
Please contact me if you have similar research interests and would like to
share information and sources:
Jenny Wüstenberg
Department of Government & Politics
3140 Tydings Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
USA
+1 301 4058689
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