Researchers...
Dr Rory Archer
Phone: +43 316 380 - 6812, 6826
Email: rory.archer(at)uni-graz.at
Consultation hours: on request, please email
More about Rory Archer
Rory Archer is leading the FWF project 'To the Northwest! Intra Yugoslav Albanian migration (1953-1989)'. His research focuses on the social history of Yugoslavia (history of labour, history and gender, socialism, housing, everyday life and popular culture). He also teaches at the University of Konstanz and is a guest lecturer at CEU Budapest/Vienna (Nationalism Studies Programme) and the University of Belgrade (Faculty of Political Sciences). From 2016-2018 he was a Mellon Post-Doc Research Fellow at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. He has published in journals such as Labour History, History and Anthropology, Social History and Nationalities Papers.
Lura Pollozhani, M.Sc., PhD
Phone: +43 316 380 - 6828
Email: lura.pollozhani(at)uni-graz.at
More about Lura Pollozhani
Lura Pollozhani is a researcher in the H2020 Connekt project and a doctoral candidate in the "Law and Politics" programme at the University of Graz. She researches civic engagement in divided societies, social movements, radicalisation and violent extremism. She holds an MSc degree in European Studies: Ideas and Identities from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in International Relations from Malmö University. Previously, she worked as an advisor to the North Macedonian Prime Minister for cooperation with international organisations. She also worked as an external engagement officer for the UNHCR, as a researcher at the University of Prishtina and as an assistant at CSEES.
More about Valeryia Saulevich
Valeryia Saulevich is a doctor of theology and project collaborator at the Centre for Southeast European Studies at Karl-Franzens University. She studied theology in Minsk, Berlin and Graz. She obtained her doctorate at the Institute for Pastoral Theology and Pastoral Psychology in Graz. She is also a certified Gestalt pedagogue.
Valeryia Saulevich was a guest lecturer at the Lumen Christi Institute in Arusha, Tanzania.
Her publications include Verletzliche Welten (Kohlhammer 2024) and Gendersensible Pastoraltheologie (Tyrolia 2021, with Maria-Elisabeth Aigner, Rainer Bucher and Tanja Grabovac).
Her research ethics and analytical reflection are characterised by sensitivity to the topics of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, mental health and socio-political structures in their current and historical dimensions.
Expertise: migration, religion, interculturality, body, vulnerability, women with migration and refugee experiences
Languages: German, English, Russian, Belarusian
Disciplines: Theology, qualitative social research
Ivana Spirovska, BA.BA. MA
Phone:+43 (0)316 380 - 6604
Email: ivana.spirovska(at)uni-graz.at
Ivana Spirovska is a Research Associate on the Volkswagen Foundation-funded project “Transforming Anxieties of Ageing in Southeastern Europe.” She is also a member of the research team based in Graz, which is involved in the project "Gender Dimension of the Croatian Minority Policy" (GEMINI).
Her background is in law, education focusing on English language and literature, and migration studies. She holds a BA in Law and a Bachelor in Education: English Language and Literature from the University St. Kliment Ohridski in North Macedonia, and an ERASMUS Mundus Joint MA Degree in Migration and Intercultural Relations (EMMIR) from a Consortium of seven universities coordinated by the University of Oldenburg in Germany. She is pursuing her Doctoral Studies in the PhD in Law and Politics program at the University of Graz. Her doctoral dissertation and research title is “Entrapped in a Legal Limbo and Finding a Way Out: Revisiting the Concept of Citizenship in the Case of Stateless Members of the Roma Communities in North Macedonia.”
She has previously worked as a Project Assistant at the CSEES, a Consultant at the UNHCR Liaison Office to the OSCE and Vienna-based Agencies, a Research Assistant on the project “Our Migration History” at the University of Stavanger, and Asylum and Mixed Migration Lawyer at Macedonian Young Lawyers Association.
Her research has been centred on human rights, statelessness, citizenship, national/ethnic minorities, ageing, and migration studies.
Länder: Nordmazedonien, Bulgarien, Serbien und Kroatien
Sprachen: Englisch, Mazedonisch, Bulgarisch, Serbisch/Kroatisch/Bosnisch/Montenegrinisch, Deutsch und Spanisch
Disziplinen: Rechtswissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft und Philologie.
Website: https://independent.academia.edu/IvanaSpirovska
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