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The University of Aberdeen
Virtual Office Hours for 2020-2021 Academic Year: Friday 14:00-16:00 GMT via MS Team (to set up an appointment please email to n.danilova@abdn.ac.uk)
Department of Politics and International Relations
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, AB24 3QY
Biography
Dr Natasha Danilova joined the University of Aberdeen in 2014. Dr Danilova gained a BA (Distinction) in Sociology from Perm State Technical University (1998), then an MA in Sociology from the European University St Petersburg (2000), and later, a PhD in Sociology (kandidat nauk) (2003) jointly from Saratov State Technical University and The European University St Petersburg (Russia). From 2003 to 2008, Dr Danilova lectured on sociological theory, research methods, and gender studies at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg campus). In 2012, Natasha Danilova completed a PhD in Politics at the University of Nottingham. Between 2011 and 2014, Dr Danilova taught global politics, political theory, research methods in Politics and International Relations, International security, Eurasian politics, Russian/Soviet history and memory politics at the University of Nottingham (both in the UK and Malaysia Campuses), and at the University of Exeter (Cornwall Campus).
In 2016, Dr Danilova completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, and achieved the status of Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK.
Peer-review: Armed Forces & Society, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Critical Military Studies, Memory Studies, Critical Studies on Security, Journal of Post-Soviet and Soviet Politics and Society, Gender, Place and Culture Journal, Political Studies Review, Europe-Asia Studies, and Problems of Post-Communism
My research interests lie in the fields of Critical Military Studies, Feminist International Relations and Identity Politics. In particular, I study issues relating to gender and war, memory politics, art/aesthetics in IR, heroes and heroism, militarism and militarisation in Western and non-Western contexts, and political and security developments in post-Soviet Eurasian states.
Current Research
My doctoral research looked at the discourses and practices of war commemoration in the UK and Russia. In particular, it examined the representations of British and Russian military fatalities of modern conflicts through mass media, physical and virtual memorials, and war-related ceremonies. The findings of this research outlined in my book, The Politics of War Commemoration in the UK and Russia (Palgrave, 2015).
Research Funding and Grants
I am looking forward to work on my new research project, 'Military and Arts Collaborations in the Era of the Global War on Terror: Comparison of the US and the UK (2001-present)' (Dec 2020-Dec 2021) supported by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.
I am continuing to work on a series of publications resulted from my research project, 'War Commemoration, Military Culture and Identity Politics in Scotland' (Jan 2017-Jan 2018) and follow-up fieldwork in 2018, 2019, which was funded by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (RG13890/70560) and School of Social Science at Aberdeen. Dr Kandida Purnell (Richmond University, London) and Dr Emma Dolan have worked as Project Research Assistants, and are currently working as co-authors. See updates: https://twitter.com/scot_war
Previously, I was co-investigator of the AHRC-funded 'Hero Project', 2015-16 (AH/M006271/1), which explored the role of a hero in modern Britain. Working with Abbie Garrington (University of Newcastle, principal investigator) and Berny Sebe (University of Birmingham, co-investigator), I studied the public perceptions of modern heroes and co-authored a paper with Dr Ekaterina Kolpinskaya (University of Exeter).
Post-Doctoral Bursary in the Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Nottingham (2012-2013)
Overseas Research Scholarship for a PhD programme, University of Nottingham (2008-2011)
PI1518 Introduction to Politics and International Relations (Co-Lecturer/Gender in Global Politics)
PI3069 Political Research in the 21st century (Co-Lecturer/UG)
PI4584 Gender and Politics (Course coordinator/UG)
PI4575 The Politics of Post-Soviet Eurasia (previously titled as Soviet Successor States) (Course coordinator/UG)
IR4014/PI4071 Dissertation (UG)
IR5001 Theories and Concepts in International Relations (PG) (Co-Lecturer/Feminist IR)
IR5901 MSc Dissertation (PG)
PI5516 MRes Research Methods (PG)
Areas of potential UG supervision: I would be keen to supervise dissertations relating to various aspects of gender politics and Feminist IR, war and memory, art and war, identity politics in Britain, Russia and other Eurasian states.
Areas of potential PhD supervision: critical military studies and Feminist IR; gender and war; politics of war memory; art, aesthetics and war; militarisation and militarism; society-military relations; veterans’ politics; heroes and heroism, regional politics and (in)securities in Russia and other Eurasian states.
Die Veteranen des sowjetischen Afghanistankriegs: Gender und Neuerfinding der Identitat (Veterans of the Soviet Afghan War : Gender and Identity Games)
Danilova, N.
Sovietnam. Penter, T., Meier, E. (eds.). Ferdinand Schoningh Verlag, pp. 213-229, 17 pages
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
Review of 'Collective Memories in War' (Routledge, 2016) edited by Elena Rozhdestvenskaya, Victoria Semenova, Irina Tartakovskaya and Krzysztof Kosela
Danilova, N.
The Journal of Power Institutions In Post-Soviet Societies, no. 18, 4279
Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
The politics of mourning: The virtual memorialisation of British fatalities in Iraq and Afghanistan