UniGR-CBS guest researcher

Johanna Trager’s research is about Czech cross-border commuting to Bavaria (Germany), a labor market phenomenon that has been possible since 1989 and has grown steadily ever since. During her stay at the UniGR-Center for Border Studies, she aims to exchange ideas on cross-border labor markets in the EU. She is particularly interested in how the role of language and educational levels will develop in the context of labor shortages, and how these dynamics can be studied in other border regions, such as the Greater Region. She looks forward to presenting her research findings on this topic so far.

Contact: johanna.trager@fsv.cuni.cz

Dominik Gerst was at the University of Luxembourg, where he developed a strong interest in the Master in Border Studies. Its interdisciplinary and multilingual approach serves as a source of inspiration for his own teaching. He also continued his long-standing collaboration with Christian Wille on the topic of border complexities, which led, among other things, to a joint article project. During his stay, he participated in a podcast episode to present their approach to “Border Complexities”.

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Ewa Macura-Nnamdi is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Studies at the University of Silesia (Poland). She holds a PhD in English literature, with a dissertation focused on New Woman fiction in the late Victorian period. Her current research centers primarily on postcolonial Anglophone literatures from Africa and the African diaspora, postcolonial theory, as well as representations of refugees and migration in film and literature.

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Angelos Evangelou is an Assistant Professor of English Literature and Theory in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He completed a research stay at Saarland University. His earlier work focused on the representation of the boundary between madness and reason in 20th- and 21st-century English literature and critical theory. His current research explores the theorization of borders and the intersections between border theory, Border Studies, and postcolonial literature.

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Starting in May, Oleksiy Kiryukhin is hosted by the University of Luxembourg for a six-month research stay funded by the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences. A geographer at the V. N. Karazin National University of Kharkiv and Director of the Ukrainian-French Academic Center, he specializes in cross-border cooperation in Europe. This is, in fact, his second stay in the Greater Region: in autumn 2021, he conducted research on territorial cohesion in border regions in collaboration with UniGR-CBS colleagues at the University of Liège.

Peter Ulrich is Scientific Director of the Institute for Local Government Studies at the University of Potsdam and teaches at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the same university. Previously, he was a researcher at the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, and at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space. His work focuses on cross-border (participatory) governance, the cross-border provision of public services, and citizen engagement and civil society participation in policymaking, planning, and development in cross-border regions.

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