Elisabeth Walther, M.A.

Elisabeth Walther completed her Bachelor’s degree in History at Luhansk University, where she focused on Eastern European history. She then continued her studies in the Master’s programme in History at the University of Wrocław.

Since April 2026 she has been a research assistant in the GWZO Department »Culture and Imagination« working on the project »Remembering in Exile: Ukrainian Perspectives on the Transformation Period after 1991«, funded by the Leibniz Lab »Crisis and Transformation«.

• history and miners’ literature in Sorbian-speaking regions as well as in South Wales and the Donbas
• sociolinguistics and language planning of minority languages
• Ukrainian memory cultures

Since 2016, she has taught courses in European minority literatures, history of Sorbs, and introduction to minority sociolinguistics at the Sorbian Department of University of Leipzig.