DecoLab Fellows

Alexander Dmitriev	2026/27	Senior DecoLab Fellow History Assistant Professor Department of Eastern European Studies Charles University, Prague Czech Republic October & December 2026, January & June 2027 (residential) February – May 2027 (non-residential) The Modern Ukrainian Reader: Literary Culture(s) and the Horizons of Theory (1905–2004)
Aleksandr Korobeinikov	2026/27	Junior DecoLab Fellow History Postdoctoral Research Fellow, History Department of the Institute for East European Studies Freie Universität Berlin, Germany June 2027 Decentering Siberia: Knowledge, Empire, and Regional Histories Beyond the Russian Grand Narrative
Ilya Kukulin	2026/27	Senior DecoLab Fellow cultural history, cultural sociology Independent Scholar, PhD, Russian State University for the Humanities (1997), United States October 2026 – June 2027 The Second Great Simplification: Illiberal Responses to Complexity in Historical Perspective and Prospects for Resistance
Maria Mayofis	2026/27	Senior DecoLab Fellow Russian Literature Independent Scholar, PhD, Russian State University for the Humanities (2002), United States October 2026 - June 2027 (non-residential) Hygienists, Antifascists, Social Reformers: An International Network of Medical Specialists, 1900s to Late 1930s
Mykola Riabchuk	2026/27	Senior DecoLab Fellow Political Science and International Relations Principal Research Fellow, Department of Political Culture and Ideology, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine October 2026 – June 2027 Mapping a ‘Nowhere Nation’: Toxic Spell of the Imperial Knowledge and Challenges of Decolonization
Elena Zemskova	2026/27	Senior DecoLab Fellow Literary Studies Research Fellow, S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies, Tel-Aviv University, Israel October 2026, January & June 2027 Creating Multinational Soviet Literature Through Translation: Poet-Translators into Russian as Agents of the Literary Field During the Stalin Era