Anna Novikov

Anna Novikov is a postdoctoral researcher at the IFZO at the cluster “New Nationalisms” and works on her research project dedicated to the revival of patriotic and neo nationalist fashion and performance on the areas of the former Eastern Bloc (East-Central Europe, Baltic States and Central Asia).

Anna Novikov received her doctoral degree in History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2013. During her PhD studies she was a Junior Visiting and Research Fellow at the Oxford University and at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture in Leipzig.

In 2013-2015 she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute, Warsaw. Her book Shades of a Nation: The Dynamics of Belonging among the Silesian and Jewish Populations in Eastern Upper Silesia (1922-1934), Fibre Verlag: Osnabrück, was published in 2015. She was also a co-editor of an additional monograph From Premodern to Postmodern Central Europe. Upper Silesia in the Age /of Nationalisms (co-edited with James Bjork, Tomasz Kamusella, and Timothy Wilson), which was published in Routledge in 2016.

In 2016-2017 Anna Novikov was a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Principles of Cultural Dynamics program at the Dahlem Humanities Center at the FU in Berlin and a Research Fellow at the Cologne-Bonn Centre for Central and Eastern Europe at the Cologne University.

He research focuses on the cultural and visual transnational modern and contemporary East-Central European/Eurasian and Jewish history and digital humanities. She analyzes various aspects of history and dynamics of identity through the prism of language, performance and clothing appearance.

Anna Novikov (2016): Creating Nationality in Central Europe, 1880-1950. Modernity, Violence and (Be) Longing in Upper Silesia. Co-edited with James Bjork, Tomasz Kamusella, and Timothy Wilson, Routledge.

Anna Novikov (2015): Shades of a Nation: The Dynamics of Belonging among the Silesian and Jewish populations in Eastern Upper Silesia (1922-1934), Osnabrück: Fibre Verlag.

Anna Novikov (2020): Examining Fate. “Maurer’s Children”: Debated Identity in the Interwar Border Area. In: Acta Universitatis Carolinae-Studia Territorialia, Prague: Charles University.

Anna Novikov (2019): Borderless Dress? The Transnational Role of ‘Black Fashion’ in Warsaw, in: The Special Issue of Journal of East Central European Studies. Jenseits der Teilungsgrenzen: Architektur, Buch, Eisenbahn und Mode im Polen des 19. Jahrhunderts, Marburg: Herder Institute.

Anna Novikov (2018): Wearing the Motherland. The Revival of Patriotic/People’s Attire in the Post-Communist World, Zeitgeschichte online, 17 March, 2018, www.zeitgeschichte-online.de/thema/wearing-motherland.

Anna Novikov (2017): The Visual Language of Neo-Nationalism: Patriotic Fashion in East-Central Europe and Central Asia. In: Trafo-Blog for Transregional Research,Forum Transregionale Studien and Max Weber Stiftung, http://trafo.hypotheses.org/7082.

Anna Novikov (2016): Creating a Citizen: Politics and the Education System in the Post-Plebiscite Silesian Voivodeship. In: James Bjork, Tomasz Kamusella, Timothy Wilson, Anna Novikov (eds), Creating Nationality in Central Europe, 1880-1950. Modernity, Violence and (Be) Longing in Upper Silesia, Routledge.

Anna Novikov (2015): Central Europe in the Middle East: The Russian Language in Israel. In: Tomasz Kamusella, Motoki Nomachi (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders, 2015, 473-49.

Anna Novikov (2015): Kleider Machen Leute. In: Weltweit vor Ort. Das Magazin der Max Weber Stiftung, 40-42.

Anna Novikov (2015): Leo Baeck and Leon Ader: A Friendship Reflected in Correspondence. In: Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 2015, Oxford University Press, 107-120.