Introducing Dr. Ekaterina V. Klimenko, 2016 Wayne Vucinich Fellow

We are pleased to introduce Dr. Ekaterina V. Klimenko as the 2016 Wayne Vucinich Fellow. Ekaterina V. Klimenko is a Senior Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State Institute of Culture. She received her PhD in Cultural Studies from the Higher Attestation Committee of the Russian Federation in 2009. Her research interests include ethnicity and interethnic relations; interethnic tolerance, intolerance and acceptance; migration, migrant-phobia and migrant integration; diversity management and multiculturalism. 

The results of her research have been published in a number of recognized scientific journals, presented at a variety of scientific conferences. The research she is currently executing is concerned with the way the public policy of migrant integration introduced in Russia recently has evolved over political debates. The research will allow examining the role that ideas play in public policy elaboration under the specific socio-economic and legal-political conditions constituted in modern Russia. It will also provide the analysis of the tendency towards “culturalization” of the socio-economic and legal-political issues — that involves defining various “problems” and legitimizing the choice of “solutions” to these problems in terms of culture — prominent in Post-Soviet Russia.

Dr. Klimenko will be in residence during Spring 2016. Her research project is entitled, “Migrant Integration” in Post-Soviet Russia: Knowledge, Discourse, Policy.