Research

RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Postdoc  project “Migration and/on Dutch Television” / “Linking Archives”
  Current postdoctoral research (May 2010-Aug. 2013) / TVit, Utrecht University
  Part of  ”BRIDGE“, in collaboration with ISLA UvA &  Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, and funded by NWO
• Postdoc  project  ”Media, Identities and ‘Yugoslavian’ Diasporas in the Netherlands” (pilot for Media and Diaspora research line)
  Postdoctoral research (Sept. 2009-Aug. 2010) / Cultures & Identities, Utrecht University
• PhD thesis: “State, Cinema, & Nation: The Construction of National Identity as a Film Policy Goal in Post-Soviet Russia (1991-2005)”
  PhD research (2003-2008)/ Media, Policy & Culture, Antwerp University
  Supervisor: prof. dr. H. Van den Bulck
  *Best Dissertation in Russian Language & Culture, awarded at the Russian Embassy of Belgium 2009*
  
• MA thesis: “Representation of Stalinist Purges in Russian Cinema 1976-1996″
  MA research (2001-2002)/ Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  Supervisor: prof. dr. W. Hesling

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH STAYS

• Project “Comparing views: developing evaluation methods for media studies tools”, Comparative Media Studies, MIT, Boston MA. Spring 2012
• Project “National identity and/in Russia” , Russian Film Institute & Sociological Research Institute (INION), Moscow. Research grant of the Flemish Government (Educational Department) and the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN), Fall 2006
• Project “Film policy in Russia”, Russian Film Institute, Moscow. Research grant of the Flemish Government (Educational Department) and the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN), Fall 2005
• Participant of Research Seminar with and about Russian Film Director Yevgeni Tsymbal (Feb 2002), Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath (UK), Feb 2001
• Student’s exchange Television Studies at Concordia International University of Estonia (courses: Media Producer, Documentary Genres I, TV News, Multicamera Workshop). With the support of an ERASMUS grant, Fall 2001