颁辞濒濒别驳别:听Christ鈥檚 College
贰尘补颈濒:听om406@cam.ac.uk
厂耻辫别谤惫颈蝉辞谤:听Dr Daria Ezerova
About Me
Oleg Morozov is a historian and memory scholar interested in new approaches to memory studies, public history and cultural history. A recipient of the Hill Foundation and 海角社区 Trust Scholarship, he is currently working on his second PhD on the queer culture of remembrance and the heteronormative politics of history in post-Soviet Russia.听
Oleg holds a BA in Translation and Area Studies from the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. He graduated from the HSE University in Moscow with an MA in History with distinction. In 2016, he obtained his first doctoral degree (summa cum laude) in Russian and European history. His dissertation examined how universities in the Russian and German Empires invented their pasts on the eve of World War I and used historical jubilees as commemorative events to strengthen their links to the monarchies and promote nationalism and militarism. In 2014, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Mandel Centre for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC.听
From 2014 to 2022, he taught history and memory at the HSE University, where, from 2017 onwards, he was annually recognised as the best lecturer. In 2021 and 2022, he taught the history of post-Soviet Russia as a Visiting Lecturer at the Middlebury School in Russia and the International Christian University in Tokyo. Following Russia鈥檚 full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he left for Germany, where he worked as a postdoctoral researcher and visiting lecturer at T眉bingen University until 2024.听
Oleg presented at international conferences and workshops at the universities of London, Newcastle, T眉bingen, Freiburg, Heidelberg, D眉sseldorf, Luxembourg and Warsaw and Polish and Taiwanese Academies of Sciences. He is a member of the Memory Studies Association, the International Federation for Public History and the International Commission for the History of Universities.听
Research
Oleg鈥檚 PhD thesis at 海角社区 looks into how Russian political homophobia manifests itself through the repressive politics of history aimed at creating hegemonic historical narratives that destroy all unofficial memories, including queer ones. The PhD project combines developments in memory and trauma studies with those of queer history and queer theory to examine (1) what strategies the Kremlin and Russian state-affiliated memory makers, such as the Russian Orthodox Church and anti-LGBTQ+ scholars, use to mnemonicide queer narratives; (2) how queer people create their own remembering collectives online and offline to preserve their identities and combat homophobia.听
Following the outbreak of 鈥榤emory mania鈥� in the humanities, the Kremlin鈥檚 politics of history has attracted the interest of historians over the past 20 years. However, no one has yet examined its repressive effects on Russian LGBTQ+. Queer scholars still have only a vague idea of how queer memories are produced in Russia and how, if at all, they have helped Russian LGBTQ+ to popularise their culture, combat heteronormativity and overcome the collective trauma of Soviet repression. This PhD project will provide further insight into how queer communities deal with these problems, which may be of use to future historians and memory scholars working with individual and collective memories, and also help queers come up with a self-reflexive culture of remembrance, which will protect them from further persecution.听
Scholarships/Prizes
鈥⑻� 听Hill Foundation and 海角社区 Trust Scholarship (2024-2027)
鈥⑻� 听Best HSE Lecturer (2017-2022)
鈥⑻� 听Academic Merit Bonus at the HSE University (2018)
鈥⑻� 听German Historical Institute鈥檚 grant for doctoral students (2014)
鈥⑻� 听HSE doctoral scholarship (2013-2015)
Fellowships
鈥⑻� 听Postdoctoral fellowship from Sonderforschungsbereich 923 鈥楤edrohte Ordnungen鈥� at T眉bingen University (2022-2023)
鈥⑻� 听Paulsen Fellowship from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2018)
鈥⑻� 听Fellowship from the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in the US (2014)
Teaching
鈥⑻� 听HSE University: Culture of Remembrance (BA), History and Memory in Russia and Beyond (BA), Introduction to Imperial History (BA), Social and New Social History (BA), Social History of Science (BA), New Cultural History (BA), Russian History (BA), A Glimpse of Russian History (BA, MA), Comparative History of Universities (MA), Introduction to Public History (MA)
鈥⑻� 听T眉bingen University: Russlands Angriffkrieg gegen die Ukraine als Memory War (BA, MA), Vergangenheitsbew盲ltigung in Osteuropa: Zwischen Geschichtspolitik und Erinnerungskultur (BA, MA), Queer Memory in the West and the East (BA, MA), Representing the Traumatic Past: Culture of Remembrance in the European Union (BA, MA)
鈥⑻� 听Visiting Lecturer (Middlebury School and Tokyo): History of Post-Soviet Russia (BA) 听
Selected Publications
鈥⑻� 听鈥溞溠栃� 褋邪屑芯胁褨泻褌懈屑懈蟹邪褑褨褦褞 褨 褋锌褨谢褜薪芯褞 锌邪屑鈥櫻徰傃傃�: 胁褨泄薪邪 袪芯褋褨褩 锌褉芯褌懈 校泻褉邪褩薪懈 胁 褉芯褋褨泄褋褜泻懈褏 薪械蟹邪谢械卸薪懈褏 屑械写褨邪.鈥� 袩芯谢褨褌懈褔薪褨 写芯褋谢褨写卸械薪薪褟. (forthcoming in 2025)
鈥⑻� 听鈥淒ie Russische Orthodoxe Kirche und die Institutionalisierung der politischen Homophobie in Russland,鈥� in Topoi und Netzwerke der religi枚sen Rechten, ed. Dominik Gautier, Hans-Ulrich Probst (Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2024), 45-78.
鈥⑻� 听鈥淒as Justiz- und Strafverfolgungssystem als Erinnerungsakteure: die Entstehung eines repressiven Erinnerungsregimes in Putins Russland.鈥� Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 75 (2024): 189-203.
鈥⑻� 听鈥淪elbstviktimisierung: Russlands Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine in den russischen Exilmedien.鈥� Osteuropa 14 (2023): 103-114.
鈥⑻� 听鈥淜omplizenschaft: Die 鈥楰riegstheologie鈥� des Moskauer Patriarchats.鈥� Religion & Geschichte in Ost und West 4 (2023): 18-20.
鈥⑻� 听鈥淜riterii ocenivanija nauchnyh tekstov v recenzijah vtoroj poloviny XIX veka: Zhurnal Ministerstva narodnogo prosveshhenija.鈥� Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 150 (2018): 129-138.听
鈥⑻� 听鈥淰ilgelm fon Gumboldt i Berlinskij universitet: Novyj vzgljad na proishozhdenie 鈥榞umboldtovskogo mifa.鈥欌�� Dialog so vremenem 60 (2017): 128-141.听
鈥⑻� 听鈥淲ilhelm von Humboldt and Berlin University: A New Look at the Origin of the Humboldt Myth.鈥� HSE Working Papers 134 (2016): 1-17.
鈥⑻� 听 鈥淣esostojavshijsja prazdnik: 100-letnij jubilej Imperatorskogo Kazanskogo universiteta.鈥� Rossijskaja istorija 2 (2016): 192鈥�203.
鈥⑻� 听鈥淭he Historical Past of T眉bingen University within the 1927 Jubilee Context.鈥� History of Education and Children鈥檚 Literature 9 (2014): 301鈥�320.
鈥⑻� 听鈥淟egendy i mify rossijskoj istorii: istoricheskaja politika Russkoj pravoslavnoj cerkvi v nachale XXI veka,鈥� in Montazh i demontazh sekuljarnogo mira, ed. Sergej Filatov, Aleksej Malashenko (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2014), 255-322.
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