Dr. Vera Dubina

Vera Dubina studied history at Samara State University from 1992 to 1997, graduating with distinction. She completed her doctorate there in 2000 with a thesis on Russian conservatism and Nikolai Iakovlevich Danilevskii. During her doctoral studies, she spent a semester at the University of Maryland in 1998. In 2002–2003, she held a German Chancellor Fellowship at Bielefeld University and the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen. From 2007 to 2010, she held a research position to work towards her habilitation at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. From 2012 to 2014, she directed the MA programme in Public History at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, where she also worked as a researcher and lecturer from 2013 to 2019, and as a senior researcher from 2019 to 2022. From 2013 to 2022, she was Programme Officer for History and Academic Exchange at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Russia. She was a researcher at the Department of History of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2022–2023 and at the Institute for European Studies at the University of Bremen from 2023 to 2025. In 2025–2026, she was a lecturer at the latter institute.

Since October 2026, Vera Dubina has been a researcher in the GWZO Department »Entanglements and Globalisation«. Her DFG-funded project examines emotions and politics in the Russian Empire through Konstantin Pobedonostsev’s role in the era after the Great Reforms.

• Russian history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
• History of emotions and political culture in the Russian Empire
• Gender history
• Public history and cultures of remembrance

• Member of »D-A-CH / Fachverband für Public-History-Forschung« (phfv)

• 2002 Stephen R. Grand Award, Civic Education Project
  
  Selected research fellowships and grants:
• 2002–2003 German Chancellor Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• 2005–2006 and 2022 research funding from the Gerda Henkel Foundation
• 2008–2009 research fellowship at the Institute of European History, Mainz

After completing her doctorate in 2000, Vera Dubina taught at various universities in Russia, including the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow (2010–2013) and the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (»Shaninka«, 2013–2019). Her courses covered cultural and gender history, the theory of history, memory studies and public history. From 2007 to 2010, she held a research position at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, working towards her habilitation.

Since 2022, she has taught in Germany. Her courses at the University of Bremen included »Public History in Russia« (summer semester 2025) and »Biography« (winter semester 2025/26).