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Members of the UK Baltic Study Group

 

Name: Timofey Agarin
Degrees: MA, PhD
Position: Research Fellow
Department: School of Social Science
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Areas of Research: Democratisation/Democratic transition after the SU, Civil society and nonprofit organisations, Environmental politics, Minorities in the Baltic States
Publications:
Email Address: t.agarin@abdn.ac.uk

Name: Amy Bryzgel
Degrees: PhD
Position: Lecturer
Department: History of Art
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Areas of Research:Eastern Europe and Russia; currently Russia, Latvia and Poland Modern and Contemporary Art Contemporary Performance Art
Publications: “Truth and Trompe L’œil: Miervaldis Polis’ Paintings in the Context of Late-Soviet Latvia,� Makslas Vesture un Teorija (March 2009) “Contemporary Art of Latvia,� Contemporary Art of Latvia: Waiting, War, Inflammation and Pomegranates. (Iowa: nonphatpress, 2006) 15-18. “Books on Latvian Art Become More Available.� Latvians Online, first published in June 2006. http://latviansonline.com/news/article/1737/ “Art History Develops as a Genre in Latvia.� Latvians Online, first published in December 2005. http://latviansonline.com/news/article/1124/
Email Address: a.bryzgel@abdn.ac.uk

Name: Stuart Burch
Degrees: BA Art History, MA Sculpture Studies, PhD.
Position: Lecturer in History & Heritage
Department: Arts, Communication & Culture
Institution: Nottingham Trent University
Areas of Research: Museums; art galleries; public art. The role of history today in terms of \'heritage\' or \'public history\'.
Publications:
Email Address: stuart.burch@ntu.ac.uk

Name: Richard Caddell
Degrees: LL.B in Law and Spanish (Cardiff University), LL.M in Commercial Law (Cardiff University), currently in final stages of a PhD in International Law (Cardiff University)
Position: Lecturer
Department: Law
Institution: University of Wales Bangor
Areas of Research: International Law (with a particular emphasis on marine and environmental issues), freedom of speech in post-Soviet societies.
Publications:
-Media Law and the Transition to Democracy in the Baltic States (2005) 10:6 Communications Law 213;
- Defamation of Public Officials: Latvia and the European Court of Human Rights (2004) 9:4 Communications Law 142 (with Silvija Aile).
Currently undertaking research on the implementation of EU Environmental Standards in the Baltic States (and am editor of the Baltic pages on www.eel.nl - a website dedicated to EU Environmental Law, based at the Asser Institute) - paper to be presented at the American Society of International Law, International Environmental Law Group annual conference in January 2007 on the implementation of EU environmental standards in Estonia. Planning to commence a book project upon submission of the PhD in January about the development of media law in the Baltic States.
Email Address: r.caddell@bangor.ac.uk

Name: Gwyn Davies
Degrees: MA in Baltic Studies (Bradford), MA DPhil in Metallurgy (Oxford).
Affiliation: British Estonian Association, BEST.
Editor of Lennuk, the Journal of the British Estonian Association.
Email address: gwyn.davies@hotmail.com

Name:  Mauro Di Lullo
Degrees:  Law
Position:  PG Student
Department:  School of Law
Institution:  Glasgow University
Areas of Research:  Human Freedom
Email Address: 0904988d@student.gla.ac.uk

Name: Dace Dzenovska
Degrees: PhD in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Position: Researcher
Department: Faculty of Humanities
Institution: University of Latvia
Areas of Research: Nationalism, liberal political culture, postsocialism and postcoloniality, race and ethnicity, tolerance, minorities, governmentality
Email Address: dace.dzenovska@lu.lv

Name: David J. Galbreath
Degrees: BA (Hons), MA (Hons) (Memphis), PhD (Leeds)
Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
Department of Politics and International Relations
University of Aberdeen
Areas of Research: Baltic foreign and defence policy, European integration, Baltic-Russian relations, Language and Identity, Comparative Baltic politics
Baltic Studies
Publications:
Galbreath, David J. (2003). The Politics of European Integration and Minority Rights in Estonia and Latvia. Perspectives on European Politics and Society 4 (1):35-54.
Galbreath, David J. (2004). Kurp talak? Recenzija par Latvijas arpolitikas pamatvirzienu projektu (iepriekšejo projektu). Politika.lv May 2004.
Galbreath, David J. 2005. Latvia. In 2004 Elections to the European Parliament, edited by J. Lodge. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Galbreath, David J. (2005). Nation-Building and Minority Politics in Post-Socialist States: Interests, Influence and Identities in Estonia and Latvia. Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag.
Galbreath, David J. (2006). Balti tähe sära jõuab Lääne silmi: Läti retsept, kuidas võita sõpru ja mõjutada inimesi. Diplomaatia 38 (November):19-20.
Galbreath, David J. 2006. The Baltic States and the European Neighbourhood Policy: Maximising the Voices of Small Nations. In Baltic Outlooks on European Foreign and Security Policy, edited by H. Tiirmaa-Klaar. Tallinn: Tallinn University Press.
Galbreath, David J. (2006). European Integration through Democratic Conditionality: Latvia in the context of minority rights. Journal of Contemporary European Studies 14 (1):69-87.
Galbreath, David J. (2006). From Nationalism to Nation-Building: Latvian Politics and Minority Policy. Nationalities Papers 34 (4):383-406.
Galbreath, David J. (2006). Latvian Foreign Policy after Enlargement: Continuity and Change. Cooperation and Conflict 41 (4):449-468.
Galbreath, David J. 2007. International Organizations, Party Politics and the Promotion of Minority Rights in the Baltic States. In International Organizations and Effective Policy Implementation: Enforcers, Managers, Authorities?, edited by J. Joachim, B. Reinalda and B. Verbeek. London: Routledge.
Galbreath, David J., and Mary Elizabeth Galvin. (2005). The Titularization of Latvian Secondary Schools: the Historical Legacy of Soviet Policy Implementation. Journal of Baltic Studies 36 (4):449-466.
Galbreath, David J., and Jeremy W. Lamoreaux. (2007). Bastion, Beacon or Bridge? Conceptualising the Baltic logic of the EU's Neighbourhood. Geopolitics 12 (1):109-132.
Galbreath, David J., Ainius Lasas, and Jeremy W. Lamoreaux. (2008). Continuity and Change in the Baltic Sea Region: Comparing Foreign Policies. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Lamoreaux, Jeremy W., and David J. Galbreath. (2008). The Baltic States As 'Small States': Negotiating The 'East' By Engaging The 'West'. Journal of Baltic Studies 39 (1):1 - 14.
Galbreath, David J. and Richard Rose (2008) 'Fair Treatment in A Divided Society: A Bottom Up Assessment of Bureaucratic Encounters in Latvia', Governance, 21 (1): 53-74.
Galbreath, David J."Still 'Treading Air'? Looking at the Post-Enlargement Challenges to Democracy in the Baltic States", Demokratizatsiya, 16(1) (2008): 87-96.
Galbreath, David J. and Daunis Auers (2009) "Green, Black and Brown: Uncovering Latvia's Environmental Politics." Journal of Baltic Studies 40 (3): 333-48.
Email Address: d.galbreath@abdn.ac.uk

Name: Paul Garrett
Degrees: BA Scandinavian Studies
Position: MA Student
Department: SSEES
Institution: UCL
Areas of Research: Identity in Estonia
Email Address: canagris@yahoo.co.uk

Name: Martyn Housden
University of Bradford
- Reader in Modern History at the University of Bradford
- has written quite extensively about aspects of Nazism, including the occupation of Eastern Europe 1939-45.
- current research interests: Ewald Ammende and national minorities in Europe
1919-39; also the repatriation of Central European and Russian prisoners of war 1920-22.

Name: Cornelia Junge
Dipl. Soz.-Oek., Dipl. Vw.
PhD student at the University of Abertay Dundee
current research projects: FDI and Innovation in the Baltic States
teaching: Microeconomics, Data Modelling, IT

Contact details:
Cornelia Junge
Dundee Business School
University of Abertay Dundee
Bell Street
Dundee
DD1 1HG
Tel: 01382/30-8362
email: c.junge@abertay.ac.uk

Name: George William Kennaway
Degrees: MMus BA ARCM
Position: PhD student
Department: Music
Institution: Leeds University
Areas of Research: Lithuanian classical music, especially M. K. Ciurlionis
Publications: \"Lithuanian Art & Music Abroad: English Reception of the Work of M. K. Ciurlionis, 1912-39\", Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 83 (2005) pp. 234-253. \"Octatonicism in the Piano Music of M. K. Ciurlionis\", in: Rimantas Astrauskas (ed.), Ciurlionis and the World (Almanac of Druskininkai Ciurlionis Study Week 2004), Vilnius: Kaunas University of Technology, 2005, pp. 56-66. \"Watching Eyes: Ciurlionis, Wyspianski and Poe\", in: Rimantas Astrauskas (ed.), Ciurlionis and the World (Almanac of Druskininkai Ciurlionis Study Week 2004), Vilnius: Kaunas University of Technology, 2006, pp. 34-44.
Email Address: mus1gwk@leeds.ac.uk

Name: Matthew Kott
Degrees: DPhil
Position: Researcher
Department: Hugo Valentin Centre
Institution: Uppsala University, Sweden
Areas of Research: 20th century history of the Baltic States, particularly Latvia; The intellectual, social, and political roots of communist and fascist movements in the Baltic and the Nordic countries; Migrations and diasporas in the Baltic Sea Region; The Romani communities in the Baltic and the Nordic countries.
Publications: \"What Does the Holocaust in the Baltic States Have to Do with the SS\' Plans for Occupied Norway?\", in: Dzintars Erglis (ed.), Holokausta petniecibas problemas Latvija / Problems of the Holocaust Research in Latvia, Symposium of the Commission of the Historians of Latvia vol. 23 (Riga: Latvijas vestures instituta apgads, 2008), pp. 139-161. \"Soviet Genocide in Latvia: Stalin\'s Great Terror (1937-38) as Antecedent and Other Aspects of the Recent Historiography\", Latvijas Okupacijas Muzeja Gadagramata / Yearbook of the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia 2007, pp. 42-54. (with Harald Runblom) \"Estnische und lettische Flüchtlinge in Schweden seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg\", in: Klaus J. Bade et al. (eds.), Enzyklopädie Migration in Europa: Vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart (Munich &c.: Ferdinand Schöningh; Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2007), pp. 553-5. \"The Portrayal of Soviet Atrocities in the Nazi-controlled Latvian-language Press and the First Wave of Antisemitic Violence in Riga, July-August 1941\" in David Gaunt, Paul A. Levine, and Laura Palosuo (eds.), Collaboration and Resistance during the Holocaust: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (Bern &c.: Peter Lang, 2004), pp. 127-60. (with Heinrihs Strods) \"The File on Operation Priboi: A Re-Assessment of the Mass Deportations of 1949\", Journal of Baltic Studies 33, no. 1 (2002), pp. 1-36; no. 2 (2002), p. 241.
Email Address: matthew.kott@valentin.uu.se

Name: Thomas Lane
Affiliation: Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of Languages and
European Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, U.K.
Areas of specialisation: History and politics of Lithuania; Baltic-Russia
relations; energy questions; Lithuania's relations with Poland, Belarus
and Ukraine; Poland's history, politics and economics; The Baltic States
and Poland in Anglo-Soviet relations 1939-1947
Main publications:
- most recent include 'Lithuania: Stepping Westward',
Routledge, 2001 (also published in David J.Smith, Artis Pabriks, Aldis
Purs and Thomas Lane, 'The Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania',
London, Routledge, 2002);
- 'Victims of Stalin and Hitler: the Exodus of Poles and Balts to
Britain',Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004;
ed. 'Europe on the Move: the Impact of Eastern Enlargement on the European
Union', Berlin and Munster,LIT Verlag, October 2005
- 'An Historical Epilogue: East Europeans and the European Movement' in Lane
and Stadtmuller eds, 'Europe on the Move'
- 'Victims of Stalin and Hitler: The Polish Community of Bradford',
Immigrants and Minorities', vol. 20, no.3, November 2001
Current research project: 'Polish Federalist Ideas in the Emigration and
their Influence on the Foreign Policy of the Third Polish Republic,
1940-1991'
Contact: tlane@blueyonder.co.uk
tel. (0044)01943 431566

Name: Rasa Luzyte
Degrees: PhD student
Position:
Department: School of Languages, Cultures and Religions
Institution: University of Stirling
Areas of Research: Gender, Literature, Religion, Feminist philosophy of Religion: Lithuanian writers Zemaite, Satrijos Ragana; The image of the Virgin Mary; Lithuanian legends; Women\'s images in folk/fairy tales from Lithuania and elswhere; The Goddess; The divine feminine and her daughter;
Publications:
Email Address: rassaluz@yahoo.co.uk

Name: Richard Mole
Degrees: BA (Hons) German and Russian [Heriot-Watt]; MPhil International
Relations [Cambridge]; PhD International Relations [LSE]
Academic title: Dr
Academic affiliation and position: Lecturer in the Politics of Central
Europe, SSEES/UCL
Areas of specialisation: identity; foreign policy; ethnopolitical conflict;
discourse; social psychology; gender/sexuality
Supervision (current): civil society in Estonia; religion and identity in
Poland; psychological explanations of the Prague Spring
Main publications:
- The Baltic States: From the Soviet Union to the European
Union. BASEES Series. Routledge (forthcoming)
Current research projects: The impact of political discourse on attitudes
towards outgroups in ethnically dividided societies
Teaching: Politics and Government in Eastern Europe; Nation, Identity and
Power; Ethnopolitical Conflict; Gender; History of European Political Ideas;
Theory and Practice of Social Research
Contact details: SSEES, UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT.
r.mole@ssees.ucl.ac.uk

Name: Jonathan Morgan
Degrees: B.A.; Diploma in Archive Studies. Working for DPhil at Kellogg College, Oxford
Position: Archivist
Department:
Institution: Dr Williams\'s Library
Areas of Research: Uralic studies; Religious history (especially Baptists); linguistics; railways; minority groups (e,g. Livonians: Latgallians, Old Prussians and Setu); Teutonic Knight and other Military orders in the Baltic; music
Publications:
Email Address: jonathan.morgan6@btopenworld.com

Name: Violetta Parutis
Degrees: BA & MA
Position: Research student
Department: School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Institution: UCL
Areas of Research: Lithuanian migration to the UK;identity and transnationalism

Email Address: violetta_parutis@yahoo.co.uk

Name: Geoffrey Pridham
Professor of European Politics
University of Bristol
Specialisation: European integration and the politics of post-Communist
countries. Currently have for 2004-7 an ESRC Fellowship to work on:
"Europeanising Democratisation?: EU Accession and Post-Communist POlitics
in Slovakia, Latvia and Romania". In other words, so far as the Baltic
area goes, I specialise in Latvia both for the European politics and the
domestic politics one.

Main recent book publications:
- "The Dynamics of Democratisation: A Comparative Approach" (2000); "Designing Democracy: EU Enlargement and Regime Change in Post-Communist Europe" (2005). Of relevance, two recent articles on Latvia: 'Clinching the return to Europe: the referendums on EU accession in Estonia and Latvia' (with E. Mikkel) in West European Politics, Sept. 2004; 'Legitimating EU accession: political elites and public opinion in Latvia, 2003-4' in Party Politics, forthcoming 2005/6.

Department of Politics
University of Bristol
10, Priory Road
Bristol BS8 1TU
Tel: 0117-9738131
Email: g.pridham@bristol.ac.uk

Name: Egle Rindzeviciute
Degrees: PhD
Position: Lecturer in Arts and Cultural Industries Management
Department: Department of Performance and Digital Arts
Institution: De Montfort University, Leicester
Areas of Research: Cultural policy, cultural diplomacy, social studies of governance, nationalism
Publications:
Rindzeviciute, E. (2008) Constructing Soviet Cultural Policy: Cybernetics and Governance in Lithuania after World War II. Linkoping: Linkoping University Press.
Rindzeviciute, E. (2003) “Nation” and “Europe”: Re-approaching the Academic Debates about Lithuanian National Identity.” Journal of Baltic Studies 34, no. 1: 74-91.
Rindzeviciute, E. (2004) “Discursive Realities: The Construction of National Identity in the Documents of Lithuanian Cultural Policy.” Ethnicity Studies 2003. Social Adaptation of Ethnic Minorities. Kaunas: The Institute of Political Science and Diplomacy, pp. 110-123.
Rindzeviciute, E. (2002) “The Problem of Europeanness in the Debates About Lithuanian National Identity.” Sociology. Thought and Action. 2:61-80 (In Lithuanian)
Rindzeviciute, E. (2005) “The Rise of Cybernetics? Governance and Change in Lithuanian Cultural Policy” CRESC Working Paper Series, No. 10. The Open University: November. Accessible at: http://www.cresc.man.ac.uk/downloads/wp1to30/wp10.pdf.
Rindzeviciute, E. (2005) “Framing Lithuanian Cultural Policy in the 1990s.” Changes, Challenges and Chances. Conclusions and Perspectives of Baltic Sea Area Studies. Edited by Bernd Henningsen. Berlin: Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, pp.25-49.
Rindzeviciute, E. (2005) “Identitetas ir saugumas Lietuvos kultūros politikos diskursuose.“ Pažymėtos teritorijos. Edited by Lolita Jablonskienė and Rūta Goštautienė. Vilnius: Tyto Alba. (“Identity and Security in the Discourses of Lithuanian Cultural Policy”, Mapping New Territories), pp. 11-30.
Rindzeviciute, E. (2004) “The Futures of the Past in Cultural Politics: François Mitterrand, Vladimir Putin and Algirdas M. Brazauskas.” European Space: Breaking News on the Genius Loci. Edited by Elona Lubytė and Rūta Mikšionienė. Vilnius: Contemporary Art Information Centre of the Lithuanian Art Museum & Lithuanian National Section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), pp. 38-39.
Rindzeviciute, E. (2003) “Discursive Realities: The Construction of National Identity in the Documents of Lithuanian Cultural Policy.” Contemporary Change in Lithuania. Edited by Egle Rindzeviciute. Baltic & East European Graduate School: Huddinge, pp. 53-70.
Kreuger, Anders and Rindzeviciute, E. (2003) “Fact and Fiction in Lithuanian Cultural Policy” Contemporary Change in Lithuania. Edited by Egle Rindzeviciute. Baltic & East European Graduate School: Huddinge, pp. 71-78. Edited books (peer-reviewed conference proceedings):
Rindzeviciute, E. (2006) Re-approaching East Central Europe: Old Region, New Institutions? Huddinge: Centre for Baltic & East European Studies.
Rindzeviciute, E. (2006) Contemporary Change in Kaliningrad: A Window to Europe? Huddinge: Centre for Baltic & East European Studies.
Rindzeviciute, E. (2006) Contemporary Change in Ukraine. Huddinge: Centre for Baltic & East European Studies. Rindzeviciute, E. (2004) Contemporary Change in Estonia. Huddinge: Baltic & East European Graduate School. Rindzeviciute, E. (2004) Contemporary Change in Russia: In from the Margins? Huddinge: Baltic & East European Graduate School.
Rindzeviciute, E. (2004) Contemporary Change in Belarus. Huddinge: Baltic & East European Graduate School. Rindzeviciute, E. (2003) Contemporary Change in Lithuania. Huddinge: Baltic & East European Graduate School. Email Address: erindzeviciute@dmu.ac.uk

Name Annika Bergman Rosamond
Lecturer in International Relations
Department of Politics and International Relations
University of Leicester
University Road
LE1 7RH
UK
Tel: +44 (0)116 252 3003
Fax : +44 (0)116 252 5082
Email: abr3@le.ac.uk

Name: Allan Sikk
Degrees: Dr
Position: Lecturer
Department: SSEES
Institution: UCL
Areas of Research: Party systems and new political parties, methods in political science, electoral behaviour, electoral systems, East European and Baltic politics.
Publications:
# “Estonia,” in Dieter Nohlen (ed.) Elections in Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
# “Estonia: The Increasing Costs and Weak Oversight of Party Finance,” with Riho Kangur in Steven D. Roper & Janis Ikstens (eds) Public Finance and Post-Communist Party Development , Aldershot: Ashgate (2008).
# “From Private Organizations to Democratic Infrastructure: Political Parties and the State in Estonia,” Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 22(3): 341–361, 2006.
# “From ‘Sexy Men’ to ‘Socialists gone Nuts’: The European Union and Estonian Party Politics,” in Paul G. Lewis & Zdenka Mansfeldova (eds) The European Union and Party Politics in Central Eastern Europe, Basingstoke: Palgrave (2006), pp. 40-63.
# “Voting Behaviour in the Estonian EU Referendum,” with Piret Ehin, in Vello Pettai & Piret Ehin (eds) Deciding on Europe: The EU Referendum in Estonia, Tartu: Tartu University Press (2005), pp. 22-39.
# “Ethnic Claims and Secessionist Logic without Significant Political Mobilization: Local Politics in Estonia’s Northeast,” with Eiki Berg, in Risto Alapuro, Ilkka Liikanen & Markku Lonkila (eds) Post-Soviet Transition. Micro Perspectives on Challenge and Survival in Russia and Estonia, Helsinki: Kikimora Publications (2004), pp. 165-187.
# “Social and Political Dimensions of the Eurozone Enlargement in the case of the Baltic States” with Tiiu Paas et al (2003), Ezoneplus Working Paper No. 13A.
Email Address: a.sikk@ssees.ucl.ac.uk

Name David J Smith
Degrees: BA (Hons) Russian and French [Bradford]; MA in East European
Studies [Bradford]; PhD [Bradford]
Academic title: Dr
Academic affiliation and position: Senior Lecturer and Convenor of Glasgow
Baltic Research Unit, Department of Central and East European Studies,
University of Glasgow; Editor, Journal of Baltic Studies
Areas of Specialisation: Statehood, Nationality and Identity; Minority
Rights and Ethnopolitics; Contemporary History and International Relations
Supervision (current): The Baltic States and the Concept of Sovereignty;
Europeanisation and National Identity in Estonia and Ukraine; History of
Estonian Diplomacy; Ethnic German Migrant Identities in Germany and Russia
Main publications:
- (Editor) The Baltic States and their Region: New Europe or Old? (Rodopi,
2005)
- (Co-editor with Marko Lehti), Post-Cold War Identity Politics: Northern and
Baltic Experiences (Frank Cass, 2003).
- Estonia: Independence and European Integration (Routledge, 2001); included
in David J. Smith, Artis Pabriks, Aldis Purs and Thomas Lane, The Baltic
States (Routledge, 2002).
Current Research Projects: Ending Nationalism? The Quest for Cultural
Autonomy in Inter-war Europe (AHRC project 2003-07, with Prof. John Hiden,
University of Glasgow); Public Monuments, Commemoration and the
Renegotiation of Collective Identities: Estonia, Sweden and the 'Baltic
World' (British Academy Project 2005-07, with Dr Stuart Burch, Nottingham
Trent University); The Baltic Question during the Cold War (Estonian Science
Foundation project, with Prof. John Hiden and Dr Vahur Made, Estonian School
of Diplomacy)
Teaching: Statehood, Nationality and Identity in the Baltic States and the
FSU
Contact Details: CEES, University of Glasgow, Hetherington Building, Bute
Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RS; tel: 0141 3305254; fax: 0141 3305594; email:
d.j.smith@socsci.gla.ac.uk

Name A. R. Kristina Spohr Readman
Degrees: BA (Hons) in European Studies and French [UEA]; M.Phil in Historical Studies [Cambridge]; PhD in History [Cambridge]
Academic title: Dr
Academic affiliation and position: Lecturer in International History, International History Department,
London School of Economics; Book Reviews Editor, Cold War History
Areas of Specialisation: German History in the internationl context since 1945; Finnish and Baltic history in the twentieth century; post-Cold War security in 'Europe'; Contemporary History
PhD Supervision (current):

Main publications:

* Germany and the Baltic problem after the Cold War - The development of a New Ostpolitik, 1989-2000 (London/New York: Frank Cass/Routledge 2004)
* (ed.) Building Sustainable and Effective Capabilities: A Systemic Comparison of Professional and Conscript Forces (Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004)

* 'German unification: Between official history, academic scholarship, and political memoirs', Historical Journal 3 (2000), pp. 869-88

* 'Naton laajentuminen 2002: "Kuka" ja "kuinka"?', Ulkopolitiikka 4 (2001), pp. 38- 49
['Nato enlargement 2002: "Who" and "how"?', Journal of Foreign Affairs by the Finnish Institute of Intl. Affairs]
* 'The politics of NATO enlargement: Problems, prospects and visions', in Theresa Hitchens and Tomas Valasek (eds), Growing pains: the debate on the next round of NATO enlargement (Washington DC: CDI, 2002), pp. 101-25
* with Ryan Hendrickson, 'From the Baltic to the Black sea: Bush's NATO enlargement', White House Studies 3 (2004), pp. 319-35
* Germany and the Baltic Question, 1945-1991 [Working Title], in John Hiden,Vahur Made, David Smith (eds), Three Stones against Goliath: the Baltic Issue during the Cold War (forthcoming, London, Frank Cass)
* The Baltic States and Finland, 1914-1945', in Robert Gerwarth (ed.), Europe, 1914-1945 (forthcoming, OUP, 2006)
* Between Rhetoric and Realpolitik: Western Diplomacy and the Baltic Struggle for Independence in the Cold War Endgame, Cold War History 6,1 (2006) [forthcoming] ca 35 pages

Teaching: The Cold War Endgame, 1975-1991 (BA); From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers,1979-1997 (MA)

Contact Details: International History Department, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE; Tel: 0207 955 7103 fax: 0207 955 6800; email: K.Spohr-Readman@lse.ac.uk
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/internationalHistory/whosWho/spohrReadman.htm

Name: Tina Tamman
Degrees: MA, University of Tartu
Academic Affiliation and Position: studying for PhD at the Department of
Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow; formerly Chief
Sub-editor at BBC Monitoring, Caversham
Areas of Specialisation: Estonian history and culture
Main publications: collection of essays in Estonian; numerous press
articles; regular broadcasts on Estonian Radio
Current Research: The Life and Achievements of August Torma
Contact details: tinatamman@yahoo.co.uk

Name: Ilona Tamosaityte
Degrees: Hons BA Early Childhood Studies
Position: student
Institution: East London University
Areas of Research: The School Children - Bilingual education. The Lithuanian children in London Schools.
Email Address: ilona.tamosaityte@barcap.com

Name: Meike Wulf
Degrees: PhD, MA
Position: CEELBAS post doctoral fellow
Department: UCL SSEES
Institution: SSEES, UCL London UK

Areas of Research: Contemporary East European History (Baltics, Balkans); Memory Politics; Nationalism; Ethnic Conflict; Cities; Civil Society; Multiculturalism; Postcolonial Discourse; Theory of International Relations; Generational and Life Story Research

Publications:
Wulf, M. Historical Culture, conflicting memories and identities in post-Soviet Estonia, Berghahn Books Oxford & New York 2008 (forthcoming).
Wulf, M. ‘Purity and danger in reciprocal images of Soviet Estonians and Estonians Exiles, edit. volume on European Cold War Cultures? Societies, Media, and Cold War Experiences in East and West (1947-1990), ZZF, Potsdam, Winter 2007 (forthcoming).
Wulf, M. ‘The struggle for official recognition of ‘displaced’ group memories in post-Soviet Estonia’, in: Michal Kopecek (eds.), Past in the Making: Recent History Revisions and Historical Revisionism in Central Europe after 1989, Budapest & New York: CEU Press September 2007 (in press).
Wulf, M. Book Review of: She Who Survives Remembers. Interpreting Estonian Women’s Post-Soviet Life Stories, Tiina Kirss et al. (eds.), in: Journal of Baltic Studies 2/2005, pp. 237 - 242.
Wulf, M. ’Theoretische Überlegungen zum Begriff des kollektiven Gedächtnisses in Estland’, in: Peter Nitschke (eds.), Sammelband: Kulturvermittlung und Interregionalitäten, Frankfurt: Collegium Polonicum, 2003, pp. 167 – 192.
Wulf, M. ‘Theory Building: Dynamics of Collective Memory in Estonia’, in: Department of East European Studies, Uppsala, Working Paper, No 51, April 2000, pp. 29 -51.
Email Address: meike_wulf@yahoo.com

 

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