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Meet the PIMS Team
Principal Investigators:
- Dr Jessie Barton Hronešová
Dr Jessie Barton Hronešová
Lecturer in Political Sociology
School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES)
Email: jessie.hronesova@ucl.ac.uk
Phone: 020 3108 4722 (54722)
Dr Jessie Barton Hronešová is a lecturer in political sociology at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London where she teaches modules across political sociology and nationalism. In her work, she focuses on victimhood narratives, the politics of memory, transitional justice and dealing with the past in Central and Southeast Europe. She is particularly interested in the political uses of emotionally charged and traumatic memories as well as how victims and survivors navigate politics. She wrote and co-edited several studies on identity politics (e.g., The Nexus between Democracy, Collective Identity Formation, and EU Enlargement, 2011) and published widely on memory and transitional justice in top journals in the field (e.g. in Perspectives on Politics,East European Politics, Journal of Genocide Research, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Journal of Peacebuilding & Development). She is the author of The Struggle of Redress: Victim Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Palgrave Macmillan 2020) and Post-War Ethno-National Identities of Young People in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Frank Lang 2012). She currently co-edits a handbook on memory politics in Southeast Europe (Brill). Outside of academic, she is a frequent policy advisor and consultant in international development in Central and Southeast Europe. She holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford (2018).
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/people/dr-jessie-barton-hronesova
- Dr Pawel Bukowski
Dr Pawel Bukowski
Lecturer in Economics
School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES)
Email: p.bukowski@ucl.ac.uk
Phone: - 020 3549 5801 (65801)
Pawel Bukowski is a Lecturer in Economics at University College London and Polish Academy of Sciences. He is also affiliated with London School of Economics. His research consists of two inter-related streams. The first considers labour market inequalities, in particular, the role of firms in wage determination, worker power and gender discrimination. The second focuses on understanding the evolution of national and sub-national economic inequalities, with particular focus on inequalities in Central and Eastern Europe.
He has published in leading international journals such Journal of Economic Growth or Journal of Labor Economics and played a reading role as both principal and co-investigator on competitive funding bids including Open Research Area, ESRC Rebuilding Macroeconomics, or LSE Research and Impact Fund. He has founded an expert group – Dobrobyt na Pokolenia (Prosperity for Generations), and a member of Concilium Civitas - a group of the influential Polish social scientists working abroad.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/people/pawel-bukowski
Co-Investigators:
- Professor Anne White
Professor Anne White
Professor of Polish Studies and Social and Political Science
School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES)
Email: anne.white@ucl.ac.uk
Phone: 020 7679 8816 (28816)
BA (1st class Hons), History and Russian, University of Oxford
1983 Lecturer in English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
1983-84 PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science (Government and Sociology Departments)
1989 Lecturer in Russian, then Senior Lecturer in Russian and East European Studies, University of Bath1987-2014 Professor of Polish Studies and Social and Political Science
September 2014 - School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES)
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/people/anne-white
- Dr Elodie Douarin
Dr Elodie Douarin
Associate Professor
School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES)
Email: e.douarin@ucl.ac.uk
Phone: 020 7679 8822 (28822)
Applied Micro-economics, Transition Economics, Cultural and Institutional Economics, Happiness Studies, Political Participation, Consequences of Violence
Elodie Douarin joined UCL SSEES in June 2012. She previously worked for Imperial College (Wye College), SOAS, Kent University and the University of Sussex.
She was Director of the Centre for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies at UCL SSEES (2013-2019) and she is one of the founding members of the Friday Association for Institutional Studies.
She co-edited the Palgrave Handbook of Comparative Economics (2021) with Prof. Oleh Havrylyshyn (Carleton University) - a comprehensive work on the field of "Comparative Economics", from its origins (Comparative Economic Systems), through the post communist transformation, to the breadth and depth of what it is today.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/people/elodie-douarinhttps://www.elodiedouarin.co.uk/
- Dr Jakub Beneš
Dr Jakub Beneš
Associate Professor
School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES)
Email: j.benes@ucl.ac.uk
Phone: 020 7679 8731 (28731)
Originally from Oakland, California, Jakub Beneš earned a BA in International Studies from Middlebury College, Vermont and then a PhD in European History from the University of California, Davis. From 2012 to 2015 he held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Birmingham. He taught at Oxford University and the University of Birmingham before coming to UCL SSEES in autumn 2019.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/people/dr-jakub-benes
- Dr Michal Murawski
Dr Michal Murawski
Associate Professor
School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES)
Email: m.murawski@ucl.ac.uk
Phone: 020 7679 8759 (28759)
Visiting Fellow
Yale University, Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, United States1 Oct 2022 - 1 Jan 2023Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Queen Mary, University of London, Department of Russian, United Kingdom1 Sep 2016 - 31 Aug 2018Visiting Research Fellow
Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Vysokovsky Graduate School of Urbanism, United Kingdom1 Jul 2017 - 31 Aug 2018Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
University College London, School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, United Kingdom1 Sep 2014 - 31 Aug 2016Affiliated Lecturer in Social Anthropology
University of Cambridge, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, United Kingdom1 Sep 2013 - 1 Oct 2014https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/people/michal-murawski
- Dr Uilleam Blacker
Dr Uilleam Blacker
Associate Professor in Ukrainian and East European Culture
School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES)
Email: u.blacker@ucl.ac.uk
Phone: 020 7679 8727 (28727)
I am a scholar and translator specialising in Ukrainian and east-central European literature and culture. In addition to my academic publications, I have written for The Atlantic, The Guardian, and the TLS, among others. I have commented on Ukrainian culture, history and politics for the BBC, the Guardian, the Telegraph, Al Jazeera, ITV and many more.
My translations of Ukrainian authors have been published in the Guardian, the White Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Words Without Borders, and more. I regularly review literature in translation for the press and have spoken on this topic at literary festivals in the UK and in Ukraine. In 2023, I was a judge for the International Booker Prize. In 2022, I was Paul Celan Translation Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.
Before joining UCL SSEES as a lecturer in 2014, I held postdoctoral positions at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge; prior to that, I studied at UCL SSEES, the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and at the University of Glasgow.
I have held research fellowships from the British Academy, the Leverhulme Foundation and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
I speak fluent Ukrainian, Polish and Russian.
Administrative Assistant:
- Diana Sayradyan
Diana Sayradyan
Administrative Assistant
Places, Identities and Memories (PIMs)
School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES)
Email: d.sayradyan@ucl.ac.uk
Phone: 020 78138 7696 (07696)