Profile: Ulrike Ziemer

Ulrike Ziemer graduated with a BA(Hons) in Russian and Politics from the Department of European Studies and Modern Languages at the University of Bath in 2002. Having obtained funding under the ESRC 1+3 programme, she spent the 2003 – 2004 academic year studying for her MA at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES), University of Birmingham.

Her appointment as Postdoctoral Research Fellow came shortly after the completion of her PhD in Russian Area Studies (under the supervision of Professor Hilary Pilkington and Dr Jeremy Morris) at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES), University of Birmingham. Her PhD is an ethnographic investigation into the complex processes of identity formation and cultural experiences amongst young people from ethnic minorities (Armenian and Adygh) in Southern Russia.

Before taking up the post as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Social Science Department of UCL SSEES, she worked as Visiting Lecturer (2008-2009) at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, where she taught and co-convened three undergraduate modules: ‘Youth, Culture and Society’, ‘The Cultural Politics of Russia and Eastern Europe’ and ‘Understanding European Identities’.

Email: u.ziemer@ssees.ucl.ac.uk

Publications

Monograph

Ethnic Belonging, Gender and Cultural Practices: Youth Identities in Contemporary Russia , with a foreword by Professor Anoop Nayak (Newcastle University), ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart, 2011 (ISBN 978 3 8382 0152 8).

Edited Volume

Diasporas, Migration and Cosmopolitanism, forthcoming with Routledge in 2012.

Journal Articles

‘Minority Youth, Everyday Racism and Public Spaces in Contemporary Russia’, European Journal for Cultural Studies, 14(2), April 2011, 292-242.

‘Belonging and Longing: Armenian Youth and Diasporic Long-Distance Nationalism in Contemporary Russia,’ Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 10(2), December 2010, 290-303.

‘Tackling Tensions and Ambivalences: Armenian Girls’ Diasporic Identities in Russia, Nationalities Papers, 38(5), July 2010, 689-703.

‘Narratives of Translocation, Dislocation and Location: Armenian Youth Cultural Identities in Southern Russia’, Europe-Asia Studies, 61(3), May 2009, 409-433.

‘“Young Soldiers’ Tales of War in Nagorno Karabakh,’ forthcoming in a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies on ‘The Many Different Faces of the Caucasus’, 2011.

Book Chapter

‘Krosskul’turnoe Polevoe Issledovanie: Etnograficheskaya Rabota i ee Vyzovy’ (‘Doing Cross-Cultural Fieldwork: Ethnography and Its Challenges’). In E. Omelchenko and G. Sabirova (eds) (2010), Peremena Mest: Poputnaya Sotsiologiya (‘Changing Places: Sociology on the Way’), pp. 69-80. Ul'yanovsk, Russia: Izdatelstvo Ul'yanovskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta.

Book Review

Cynthia J. Buckley, Blair A. Ruble & Erin Trouth Hofman's (2008) Migration, Homeland and Belonging in Eurasia, Europe-Asia Studies, 62(2), March 2010, .

Conferences and workshops:

‘“Children of Violence:” Young Men’s War Identities in Nagorno Karabakh ’, Paper presented at the AAASS Conference, Los Angeles, November 2010.

‘Enacting and Transgressing the ‘Ideal’ Armenian: Young Diasporic Masculinities and Femininities in Russia’, Paper presented at the ASN Conference, Colombia University, New York, April 2010.

'Negotiating Place and Identity: Armenian Youth in Russia’, Paper presented at the CEELBAS Conference on ‘Diasporas and Cosmopolitanism: From Theory to Practice’, SSEES, UCL, September 2010.

‘A case of ‘Caucasian brotherhood’? Armenian and Adyghean Youth in Krasnodar krai’, Paper presented at the CEELBAS workshop on ‘Cultures of the Margins’, University of Warwick, December 2009.

‘Diaspora and Belonging: Armenian Youth Narratives of Translocation, Dislocation and Location in Southern Russia’, Paper presented at the conference on ‘National Identity and Eurasia II: Migrancy and Diaspora’, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, July 2009.

‘Long-Distance Nationalism and Identity: Reconsidering National Memory and Culture in the Armenian Diaspora in Russia’, Paper presented at the conference on ‘The Caucasus and Central Asia: Theoretical, Cultural and Political Challenges’, University of Birmingham, July 2009.

‘Rethinking ‘Homeland’ in Diaspora: Armenian Youth Narratives in Southern Russia’, Paper presented at the 39th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia, June 2009.

‘The Social Construction of Armenian Gender Positions in Krasnodar, Southern Russia’, Paper presented at the BSA Annual Conference, Cardiff City Hall, Cardiff, April 2009.

‘The Reproduction and Transgression of Ethnicised Gender: The Case of Armenians in Krasnodar (Southern Russia)’, Paper presented at the Ceelbas Conference on 'Youth and Social Change across Borders: Emerging Identities and Divisions in Eastern And Western Europe’, St Anthony’s College, University of Oxford, March 2009.

‘Armenians in Krasnodar (Southern Russia) Long-Distance Nationalism’, Paper presented at the BASEES Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, March 2009.

‘Belonging and Longing: Young Armenians and Long-Distance Nationalism in Southern Russia’, Paper presented at the ASEN 19th Annual Conference on Nationalism and Globalisation, LSE, March 2009.

Teaching

· Advanced Qualitative Methods

· MASR I: Introduction to Qualitative Methods

· MASR II: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Advanced Qualitative Research Methods

· Ethnopolitical Conflict in Central and Eastern Europe

· Class, Citizenship and Migration in the Wider Europe: Aspects of the Sociology of Transition

Membership of Professional Organisations

· Higher Education Academy (HEA)

· British Sociological Association (BSA)

· British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)

Other Activities and Forthcoming Events

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