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Marco Puleri

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

Department of Political and Social Sciences

Academic discipline: SPS/06 History of International Relations

Curriculum vitae

Current position:

Senior assistant professor in Post-Soviet Studies (SPS/06 - History of International Relations) - University of Bologna (2021-ongoing).

 

Past positions:

  • Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Post-Soviet Studies - University of Bologna (2015-2021).
  • Adjunct Professor - History of Eastern Europe - University of Bologna (2015-2021).

 

National Scientific Qualifications for Academic Staff:

  • Associate Professor in Slavic Studies, as certified by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research on August 7, 2018.
  • Associate Professor in History of International Relations, as certified by the Italian Ministry of University and Research on November 11, 2020. 

 

Research Activity:

 

  • Post-doctoral Research Fellow – Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna (1 July 2018 – 31 December 2020): “Multiculturalism and Regionalism in Post-Maidan Ukraine”.
  • Post-doctoral Research Fellow - Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna (1 August 2016-30 June 2018 – 23 months): “The political debate in the Russian Federation. Neo- Conservatorism, Modernization and benchmark values under Putin: Between Post-Soviet and European Integrations". Member of the International Research Project: “Russia and China in the Global World. State and Society between internal dynamics and external projections”.
  • Post-doctoral Research Fellow - Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna (1 February 2015-31 July 2016 – 18 months): “The political debate in the Russian Federation. Neo- Conservatorism, Modernization and benchmark values under Putin” – Member of the International Research Project: “Russia and China in the Global World. State and Society between internal dynamics and external projections”.

 

Main International Research Networks:

  • (2023-ongoing) Member of the research unit of the University of Bologna - PRIN 2022 project “DIMEast – Diversity and Impacts of Migration at the EU's Eastern Borders. Territorial Cohesion, Solidarity and Security as Global Challenges in the Western Balkans, the Eastern Partnership and the Russian Federation” (CUP: 2022LJTTBP; Funding body: Ministry of University and Research).
    • (2022-ongoing) Member of the international research group of the EU/EACEA Europe for Citizens project entitled “Remember Bacha”. The project was accepted for funding on the basis of a competitive tender which included peer review and entrusted to the leadership of Tallin University of Technology (Estonia), in collaboration with Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (Italy), University of Vigo (Spain ), Palackeho v Olomouci University (Czech Republic), Eesti Poliitiliste Liit MTU (Estonia, University of Bialystok (Poland), Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia), Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas (Lithuania). Link to the project: https:// rememberbacha.eu/. The project aims to stimulate a debate on the main European historical events beyond national perspectives through the example of social movements that arose from below in the Baltic countries (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) in the late perestroika era.
    • (2022-ongoing) Member of the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Module project team “REBOUND – Rethinking Borders in and by the European Union” (ERASMUS-JMO-2022-HEI-TCH-RSCH; https://site.unibo.it /rebound/en), coordinated by Prof. Michela Ceccorulli (University of Bologna, Department of Political and Social Sciences). Participation in the teaching and research activities of the project aimed at studying bordering processes in the European Union in the aftermath of the 2015 refugee crisis.
  • (2020-2023) Member of the Steering Committee - International Research Project Erasmus + Strategic Partnership “GLocalEAST – Developing a new curriculum in Global Migration, Diaspora and Border Studies in East-Central Europe” (2020-2023). The EU-funded project is coordinated by Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovak Republic), together with Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna (Italy), University of Belgrade (Serbia), University of Zagreb (Croatia), European University Viadrina (Germany), Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas (Lithuania).
  • (2020-2021) Member of the international research project EU/EACEA Europe for Citizens “Remember Nansen: Migration, Refugees and Humanitarian Aid” (2021). The EU-funded project is coordinated by Tallin University of Technology (Estonia), in collaboration with Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna (Italy), University of Valladolid (Spain), Vigo University (Spain), University Palackeho v Olomouci (Czech Republic), Salamanca University (Spain), Latvian Institute of International Affairs (Latvia). Link: https://remembernansen.eu/it/.
  • (2019-ongoing) Member of the international research group for the study of Russophone cultures in the Post-Soviet space (ZOiS – Center for East European and International Studies, Berlin).
  • (2017-19) Member of the international research group - EuropeAid research project 'Support to Strengthening Teaching and Research at ADA University' (2017-2019;ENPI/2017/384-752; ID code: EuropeAid/138205/DH/SER/AZ). The EU-funded project was coordinated by GOPA Consultants (Germany), in collaboration with DAAD (Germany), Maastricht School of Management (Netherlands) and Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna (Italy).

  • (2015-18). Member of the international research group of the project ‘Russia and China in the Global World’ (Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze politiche e sociali, U.O.S. di Forlì).
  • (2015-ongoing) Member of the research group "Centro per l'Europa centro-orientale e balcanica" in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna.

 

Teaching Activity:

  • Assistant Professor (2021-ongoing) - History of Russia (BA); East European and Eurasian Studies: Empires, Nations and Modernity (MA); Remapping the Post-Soviet Space (MA) - Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna - Department of Political and Social Sciences.
  • Adjunct Professor (2015-2021) — 'History of Eastern Europe, Nation Building and Protection of Minorities' (MA); Remapping the Post-Soviet Space (MA); History of Eastern Europe (BA) - Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna – Department of Political and Social Sciences//Department of Cultural Heritage.

 

Visiting Fellow/Lecturer:

 

  • 2024 (January). Erasmus+ Visiting Lecturer (2023/2024) at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Link alla pagina ufficiale del corso: https://studies.helsinki.fi/courses/course-implementation/hy-opt-cur-2324-4c63b2e5-2fff-4b67-ad1a-03fea2d93839 .
  • 2022 (October-November). Erasmus+ Visiting Lecturer (2022/2023). Cycle of seminars  “The Long Road to the War in Ukraine: The Post-Soviet Transition as a Plural Experience” – Tbilisi State University (Tbilisi, Georgia).
  • 2022 (September). Erasmus+ Visiting Lecturer (2022/2023). Cycle of seminars  “Russian Diaspora in the Post-Soviet Space: From the ‘Russian nation’ to ‘post-national’ (Russophone) Identities” – European University Viadrina (Frankfurt Oder, Germany).
  • 2019 (September-December). Visiting Research Fellow. Institute of Advanced Studies (Köszeg, Ungheria). Research Project: ‘Russian, Russophone, Ukrainian: Hybrid Identities and Politics in the Post-Soviet Era’.

  • 2019 (12–23 May) Erasmus + Visiting Lecturer (2018/19): Cycle of seminars (12 academic hours) ‘Multiculturalism and Regionalism in Post-Maidan Ukraine: Dis/Continuity in Post-Soviet and Post-Maidan Times’ – Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University (Ukraine).
  • 2018 (December 18). Visiting Lecturer – Jean Monnet Programme Winter School ‘Creating Territorial Cooperation: The Impact of Intercultural Dialogue and Migration Flows in South East Europe’ (Cesenatico, 12-19 December, 2018). Lecture (2 academic hours) on ‘Europeanising Reconciliation. Europe, Identity, Diversity’.
  • 2018 (June 28-30). Visiting Lecturer – 4th EU Summer School “European Union and Foreign Policy in Geopolitical Context” (ADA University, Baku – Azerbaijan). Cycle of seminars (8 academic hours) on EU-Russia relations.
  • 2018 (17 May – 31 May) Erasmus + Visiting Lecturer (2017/18): Cycle of seminars (2 weeks; 16 academic hours) ‘Textualising a New Topology of National Identity: at the Crossroads Between Normative Measures and Blurred Cultural Boundaries in Post-Maidan Ukraine’ - Ivan Franko National University (L’viv – Ukraine).
  • 2016 (29 August- 2 September). Visiting Lecturer – Cycle of Seminars “Mirroring Europe in Ukrainian Literature (or Textualising a New Topology of National Identity)”. Viadrinicum, Ukrainian Summer School - 10 academic hours (European University Viadrina - Frankfurt).
  • 2015 (December). International Research Fellow (RANEPA - The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration - Moscow).
  • 2013 (October-December). International Research Fellow (Kyiv Mohyla Academy - Kiev).
  • 2012 (June-July). Visiting Lecturer – (Summer School for the study of Italian language and culture) - Ukrainian Catholic University (UKU, L’viv – Ukraine).

 

Honors and Recognition:

- Research Prize ‘Città di Firenze’ 2015 – founded by Assessorato Università e Ricerca del Comune di Firenze, together with the University of Florence and Firenze University Press (FUP). Funding for the publication of the book: “Narrazioni ibride post-sovietiche. Per una letteratura ucraina di lingua russa”, Firenze, FUP, 2016. Official book launch at the University of Verona (web: http://www.dlls.univr.it/?ent=seminario&id=4019&lang=it ) and at the European University Institute, Florence (web: https://ukrainiansubjectivities.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/for-the-brochure-click-here.pdf ).

- Early Career Research Scholar Grant (2018) – Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) – Research Prize to the submitted paper: “The Future of ‘Russianness’ in Post-Maidan Ukraine – or reframing the role of Russian language and culture in the post-Soviet space through the lens of the Ukraine Crisis” (International Conference ‘Ukraine and the World: Culture, Politics, Society’ – 12-14/07/2018).

 

Selected English-language Publications:

  • Books:

    Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) Russian: Hybrid Identities and Narratives in Post-Soviet Culture and Politics (Vol. 8 – Book series: Postcolonial Perspectives on Eastern Europe), Peter Lang, Berlin 2020.

    [Reviews: A. Vozna, “Ab Imperio”, 4, 2020 (English); G. Barta, “Eurasian Geography and Economics”, 2021 (English); F. De Leonardis, “Nazioni e regioni”, 2021 (Italian); D. Blackwell, “H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences”, 2021 (English); M. Finkelstein, “Anzeiger für Slavische Philologie”, 2019 (XLVII) (German); A. Chertenko, “Ideology and Politics Journal”, No. 2 (16), 2020 (Russian)].

    - Edited issues in journals:

    (with A. Krasteva) The Balkan Migration Route Between Securitarian and Humanitarian Policies, “Southeastern Europe”, Vol. 41, Issue 3, 2017.

    - Articles in scholarly journals (double-blind peer-review):

  • Strengthening the State-Religion Nexus in Post- Maidan Ukraine. The Autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as Nation- Building Strategy after Revolution, “Cristianesimo nella Storia”, 44, Fascicolo 1, 2023: 215-233.

    Russophonia as an Epistemic Challenge, “Ab Imperio. Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space”, Issue 1, 2023: 76-98.

    (with A. Achilli) Beyond War: Russia, Ukraine and the State of the Field, “eSamizdat – Rivista di Culture Slave”, Vol. XV, 2022, pp. 19-24.

  • (with Marco Zoppi) The Balkan Route (and Its Afterlife): The New Normal in the European Politics of Migration, “Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies”, 2021, DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.2015658.

  •  A Response to the Review by Alexander Chertenko: Reflections on Today’s Russophone Studies, “The Ideology and Politics Journal”, 2 (16), 2020: 392-395. 

  • Values for the Sake of the (Post-Soviet) Nation: Patriotism(s) and the Search for the ‘True’ Self in Ukraine, “Southeastern Europe”, Vol. 43, Issue 3, 2018: 350-375.

    Hybridity Reconsidered: Ukrainian Border Crossing After the "Crisis", “Ab Imperio. Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space”, Issue 2, 2017: 257–286.

    ‘Eto ia – Carrère’: Analysing the influence of Limonov’s autobiographical mode in Carrère’s literary work, “Avtobiografija”, Issue 3, 2014: 427-437.

    Ukraïns’kyi, Rosiis’komovnyi, Rosiis’kyi: Self-Identification in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Literature in Russian, “Ab Imperio. Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space”, Issue 2, 2014: 367-397.

    - Chapters in edited volumes:

    “Towards a Postcolonial Ethics: Rewriting Ukraine in the ‘Enemy’s Language’”, in A. Achilli, S. Yekelchyk, D. Yesypenko (eds.), Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes: Essays in Honor of Marko Pavlyshyn, Academic Studies Press, Boston (MA) 2020: 639-655.

    “In Search of ‘New Roots’: Towards a Situational Ideology in Putin’s Russia”, in S. Bianchini, A. Fiori (eds.), Rekindling the Strong State in Russia and China: Domestic Dynamics and Foreign Policy Projections, Brill, Leiden-Boston (MA) 2020: 17-39.

    “Engaging with European (Dis-)Integration. Russia in dialogue with Europe/s”, in S. Bianchini, A. Fiori (a cura di), Rekindling the Strong State in Russia and China: Domestic Dynamics and Foreign Policy Projections, Brill, Leiden-Boston (MA) 2020: 298-322.

    “Between Kafka and Gogol’. ‘De-territorialising’ National Narrative(s) in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Literature in Russian”, in C. Pieralli et al. (a cura di), Russia, Oriente slavo e Occidente europeo. Fratture e integrazioni nella storia e nella civiltà letteraria, Firenze University Press, Firenze 2017: 355-374.

    “Critical Perspectives on Post-Soviet Ukrainian Literature in Russian”, in Г. Скрипник, VIII Міжнародний конгрес україністів. Літературознавство. М-58 Збірник наукових статей. Частина друга, НАН України; МАУ; ІМФЕ ім. М. Т. Рильського, Київ 2017: 331-339. 

 

Member of the Editorial Board in Scientific Journals:

  • Associate Editor. Member of the Editorial Board of the journal ‘Southeastern Europe’, edited by Brill (ISSN: 0094-4467). From issue n. 39.1 (2015-ongoing)
  • Member of the Editorial Board (2020-ongoing) - ‘eSamizdat. Rivista di culture slave’ (ISSN: 1723-4042).
  • Membro of the Editorial Board (2022-ongoing) of the journal ‘Niprò. Rivista di studi ucraini’ (ISSN: 2974-6531).
  • Membro of the Editorial Board (2023-ongoing) of the journal ‘NaUKMA Research Papers. History and Theory of Culture’ (ISSN: 2617-8907).

Membership in Scientific Associations:

  • Member of the board (2015-2021) of the Italian Association for Ukrainian Studies (AISU, 2015-).
  • Memberf of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN, 2022-).
  • Member of Italian Society of International History (SISI, 2021-)
  • Member of the Italian Association for Slavic Studies – (AIS, 2016-).
  • Member of the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES, 2016-).

 

Language Proficiency:

Italian (Native), English (Expert), Russian (Expert), Spanish (Intermediate), Ukrainian (Beginner).

 

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