Katrine Stevnhøj
  • Karen Blixens Plads 8, 2300 København S, 10 Bygning 10, 10-3-54

  • Karen Blixens Plads 8

    2300 København S

20222024

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Current research

Through ethnographic fieldwork, my PhD-project investigates the experiences of Belarusian and Russian activists living in exile. With a focus on the intersections between the personal and the political, my research explores how people produce new ideas of home and belonging amidst rapid and traumatic geopolitical changes.

The project is supervised by Mikhail Suslov.

Primary fields of research

With a regional focus on Russia, Belarus, and the post-Soviet region, my research interests include:

  • Exile and diaspora
  • Protest movements
  • Cultural forms of protest
  • Political activism
  • Political emigration
  • Political repression

Teaching

  • Protest in contemporary Eastern Europe
  • Culture and society in Russia
  • Russian history

Knowledge of languages

  • Danish
  • English
  • Russian

Education/Academic qualification

Eastern European Studies, MA, Aarhus University

Feb 2017Jan 2019

Eastern European Studies, BA, Aarhus University

Sep 2013Jan 2017

External positions

Special advisor on Ukraine, Udenrigsministeriet

1 Sep 2024 → …

Research assistant, Aarhus University

20172018

Selection committee member, New Democracy Foundation