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Dr. Julia Gerlach

Overview: Studying Areas

Russia: Eternal Enigmas

Julia Gerlach has been a research fellow at the Institute for East European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin since 2007. Her main fields of teaching and research are political change and the nexus of politics and religion in Eastern Europe. Also, she has been involved in the cooperation with partner universities abroad, coordinating the certificate program “German Studies Russia” and the Russian-German double Master’s program in “International Relations” with Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO). Julia has been trained as a political scientist. She holds an MA in Political Science from University of Bonn and a PhD from University of Chemnitz. Her PhD thesis that analyzes how democracies cope with the challenge of extremism has been published in German in 2012 (“Das Vereinsverbot der streitbaren Demokratie. Verbieten oder Nicht-Verbieten?”). She is currently working on co-editing a collection titled “Under Construction. The Role of Religion in Eastern Europe Today” with Jochen Toepfer.

Overview: Studying Areas