Dr. Habil Ingrid Oswald, Sociologist, holds a postgraduate certificate in Eastern European Studies. She has reach experience in teaching and project leading at the universities in Berlin, Magdeburg, St. Petersburg, Oldenburg.
Main research focuses are migration and ethnic relations, urban and regional studies, cultural studies.
Currently Dr. Oswald is a Vicedirector of the “Centre for Independent Social Research” (CISR)/ St. Petersburg; Associated professor at Humboldt University Berlin (Dept. for Urban and Regional Studies)
List of main publications:
2007: Migrationssoziologie (university reader, forthcoming)
2007: “Industrialized Villages” in Post-Socialist Countries – Steps Towards an Integrative Research Concept. In: Granberg, Leo et al. (Hrsg.): Societal change in post-Soviet rural regions. CambridgeScholarsPress (forthcoming)
2000: Die Nachfahren des ´homo sovieticus´. Ethnische Orientierung nach dem Zerfall der Sowjetunion. (The descendants of the ‚homo sovieticus’. Ethnic orientation after the decay of the Soviet Union) Münster u.a.O.
1998 (ed.): Konstruirovanie etnichnosti. Etnicheskie obshchiny Sankt-Peterburga. Sankt-Peterburg (co-editor: Viktor Voronkov)
1998: Post-Soviet Ethnicities. Ethnic Codes in Post-Soviet Russia, and Soviet Immigrants in Germany. In: Balla, B. a.o. (eds.): Ethnicity, Nation, Culture. Central and East European Perspectives. Hamburg: 251-264