Dr. Karina Khasnulina

Karina Khasnulina studied Oriental and African Studies, specialising in China, at Novosibirsk State University (2010–2015). Between 2019 and 2020, she completed a research stay in Chinese Studies at Nanjing University, before studying Russian history at the European University at St Petersburg (2020–2021). From 2021 to 2025, she was a doctoral researcher at the Graduate School Global and Area Studies (GSGAS) and a teaching associate at the Global and European Studies Institute (GESI) at Leipzig University. From January to March 2025, she was awarded a research start-up grant by the GWZO to develop a postdoctoral project on the role of the Orthodox Church in the postwar history of Eastern European migrants. In 2026, she obtained her PhD in Global Studies from Leipzig University with a dissertation entitled »Tractors, Experts, and Boundaries: Building and Remembering Socialist Industry in Luoyang«.

Since 2026, Karina Khasnulina has been a research assistant at the GWZO department »Entanglements and Globalisation« where she is co-organising the joint annual conference of the GWZO and ReCentGlobe on the topic »Global Easts: Processes and Aftermaths of Violence in Transregional and Transimperial Perspective«.

• Sino-Soviet relations and the history of the Cold War
• Global History
• Socialist globalisation
• Religion and migration studies; the Orthodox Church

• Member of the German Association for Asian Studies (DGA)
• Member of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)

Since the winter semester of 2026/27, she has been a teaching associate at the Global and European Studies Institute (GESI) at Leipzig University, where she teaches the M.A. seminar »China and the Global South«. During her doctoral studies at Leipzig University, she taught in the M.A. programme in Global and European Studies, including the seminar »Relations between China and Russia/the Soviet Union from Late Imperial Times to the Present«. Previously, she taught Chinese undergraduate students at Novosibirsk State University and Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management. Teaching included Chinese language courses as well as »Theory and Practice of Translation« and »Theory and Practice of Russian–Chinese Translation«.