FRINGE People
Meet the team
FRINGE Director: Dr Irina Petrova
FRINGE Co-Director & PPV Project lead: Dr Michal Murawski
FRINGE Co-Director & GIP Project lead: Professor Alena Ledeneva
Project team: academics who run projects on behalf of FRINGE and are responsible for a range of outputs relating to their project, including workshops and publications.
Editorial Board: a network of SSEES and IAS academics who review and commission publications for the FRINGE Series, published by UCL Press.
Friends of FRINGE: a network of individuals who help with the forward planning of the centre.
- Prof Alena Ledeneva, Founding Director, 2015-2018, Coordinator of GIP (Global Informality Project)
- Dr Irina Petrova, Director, 2024-2026, Co-editor of UCL Press FRINGE Series
- Dr Michal Murawski, Director, 2021-2024, Coordinator of PPV (Perverting the Power Vertical)
- Dr Tim Beasley-Murray, Senior Lecturer in European Thought and Culture
- Dr Tomas Cvrcek, Lecturer In Economics
- Dr Filipa Figueira, Teaching Fellow in Economics and Business
- Professor Maria Rubins, Professor Russian Literature
- Dr Diana Georgescu, Lecturer in Transnational/Comparative South-east European Studies
- Professor Eric Gordy, Professor of Political and Cultural Sociology
- Dr Udo Grashoff, DAAD Francis L. Carsten Lecturer in Modern German History
- Dr Philippa Hetherington, Lecturer in Modern Eurasian History
- Marta Kotwas, PhD Candidate
Commissioning editors
- Alena Ledeneva
- Uta Staiger
Editorial board
- Tamar Garb
- Tomas Cvrcek
- Eric Gordy
- Irina Petrova
- Maria Rubins
- Tim Matthews
- Clementine Cecil, Executive Director, Pushkin House
- Dorothy Feaver, Producer, editor & writer, BBC
- Lucy Ash, Presenter BBC Radio Current Affairs
- Bo Rothstein, Professor of Government and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College.
- Adrian Stone, Director, Alaco
- Dr Charlotte Shaw, Head of Research, Phenomen
- Dr Ilya Permyakov, Director, Phenomen
- Ruth Mandel, Vice-Dean International, Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences, UCL
- Colin Marx, Lecturer in Land Planning and Management, UCL Bartlett
- Dr Stephanie Bird, Lecturer in German & Director of UCL School of European Languages, Culture & Society, UCL SELCS
- Prof Jan Kubik, Professor of Slavonic and East European Studies, former UCL SSEES Director
- Prof Tamar Garb, Professor in the History of Art & Director of UCL Institute of Advanced Studies
- Dr Gemma Angel, UCL IAS Junior Research Fellow (2015/2016)
- Dr Laurent Dissard, UCL IAS Junior Research Fellow (2015/2016)
- Dr Ellen Filor, UCL IAS Junior Research Fellow (2015/2016)
- Dr Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed, UCL IAS Junior Research Fellow (2015/2016)
- Prof Stuart Elden, UCL IAS Visiting Senior Research Fellows (2015/2016)
- Rilka Dragneva-Lewers, Reader in Law, Development and Regional Integration
- Magda Buchczyk, Senior Research Associate, University of Bristol
- Ruzica Simic Banovic, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb
- Bernhard Reinsberg, Post-doctoral Research Associate, Cambridge
- Anastassia Forquenot De La Fortelle, Professor of Russian and Literature, UNIL, University of Lausanne
- Egle Rindzeviciute, Lecturer Criminology Sociology, Kingston University, London
- Dace Dzenovska, Associate Professor in Anthropology of Migration, Oxford
- Rossen Djagalov, Assistant Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University
- Sven Horak, Assistant Professor of Management, St. John's University, New York
- Vesna Popovski, Research Officer at London School of Economics, Research on South Eastern Europe
- Saadi Lahlou, Professor, Department of Social Psychology, London School of Economics
- Mayfair Yang, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Yoshiko Herrera, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Caroline Humphrey, Professor of Collaborative Anthropology (2006-2010), University of Cambridge
- Nicolette Makovicky, Lecturer in Russian and East European Studies, Oxford University.
- Tom Stottor, Editor of History and Politics, I.B.Tauris Publishing House
- Jessica Pisano, Associate Professor of Politics, New School NYC
- Magda Raczynska, Head of Literature , Polish Cultural Institute London
- Lesya Myata, PR and Project Coordinator (Russia), Calvert 22
- Dr Stevphen Shukaitis, Senior Lecturer in Culture & Organization, University of Essex
- Dr Klara Kemp-Welch, Lecturer in 20th Century Modernism, The Courtauld Institute of Art
- Laurence Cockcroft, Professional career as Development Economist, Former chairman of Transparency International (UK), author of 'Global Corruption: Money, Power and Ethics’ (2012) and co-author of 'Unmasked: Corruption in the West’ (2016