The Paulsen Fellowship Programme was a five year programme for early-career historians from Russian universities to study as fellows at LSE, which ran from 2010 until 2015.
Fellows worked on the history of Russian international relations between 1700 and 1917 within the international and interdisciplinary environment of LSE.
They organised an international academic conference focusing on Russian's struggle with Napoleon and the subsequent Congress of Vienna, timed to coincide with the bicentenary the Congress opening in 2014. Arguing that the conflict showed Russia's defeat of Napoleon required a network of alliances with other European powers and illustrated that Russian and European security were indissolubly linked, the conference aimed to give a historian's perspective to support the best Russian scholars in what very well might become a raucous and political debate with strong contemporary political implications.
Oksana Goncharova is a lecturer at the Department of Regional and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Public Administration. Her teaching encompasses the European Socio-political System, European Historyand and the History and Theory of International relations.
Darya Vershinina is is an Associate Professor at Perm State University (Perm, Russia), where she received her PhD in 2007. Dr. Vershinina is a member of the Russian Association of Researchers in Women’s History and the Russian Society for Intellectual History. She is the author of about 30 academic publications and the head of the Centre for Gender Studies at Perm State University.
Andrey Larin is a senior lecturer at Samara State University (Samara, Russia) where he received his PhD in 2010. Dr. Larin is a member of Samara City public organization 'Community of Young Scientists'.
His academic area of expertise concerns the problems of Russian policy in Iran in the 19th and 20th centuries, international relations in the Middle East, modern history of Iran and neighbouring countries.
Yulia Komleva is Associate Professor at the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History of Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia. She graduated from the MA programme at Central European University (CEU, Budapest, Hungary), and received her PhD from the Ural State University (USU, Ekaterinburg, Russia).
Yan Vaslavskiy is Associate Professor of the Political Theory Department of the Faculty of Political Science, MGIMO-University, Moscow, Russia. His research interests include study of the European history in the 19th and 20th centuries from the period of the Napoleonic wars, especially their impact on political developments in various European countries.
Artem Dankov is a senior lecturer at Tomsk State University. Dr Dankov received his PhD from the Tomsk State University. In 2008, he participated in a fellowship programme at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium. His area of expertise include Anglo-Russian rivalry in Central Asia in the 19th century
Victor Apryshchenko is Head of Modern History Department and Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs of the History Faculty, Southern Federal University, Russia. His research interests include study of shaping and transformation of European identity, migrant identity in Modern Europe, and European experience of diversity management.
Stanislav Malkin is a senior lecturer at the Samara State Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities. Dr Malkin received his PhD from the Institute of the World History at the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2002, he was involved in a cultural educational exchange program at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. He is the 2000 recipient of the Golden Medal of the Russian Federation for the perfect results in education.
Although the Paulsen Fellowship Programme has ended, IDEAS continues to work on Russian history through the Cold War Studies Project.