Dr Alexander Etkind awarded €1 million grant!

Dr Alexander Etkind, Fellow at King’s and a Reader in Russian Literature and Cultural Studies in the Department of Slavonic Studies has received a three-year grant of €1 million, which is expected to be used on a study into comparative memory of the Soviet era in Russia, Ukraine, and Poland, "A Memory War: Cultural Dynamics in Russia, Poland, and Ukraine".

The interdisciplinary study will be multinational and will involve universities from Groningen, Bergen, Helsinki and Tartu as well as Cambridge.

The grant is believed to be the largest made to Cambridge for the humanities and has been awarded by the HERA Consortium (Humanities in the European Research Area), which supports post-doctoral researchers and graduate studentships and enables large-scale cross-border coordination of research activities within the humanities.

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