Dr. Maike Lehmann

Maike Lehmann is a historian of Eastern Europe whose work focuses on the transnational dimensions of cultural and (post)imperial history in the twentieth century. After working on the Soviet national periphery, she is now looking at the everyday and intellectual encounters of exiled Soviet intellectuals with the West. She graduated with an MA in Russian History from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) and earned her PhD from Humboldt-University, Berlin. Between 2008 and 2014, she worked as a senior researcher at the Research Center for East European Studies (FSO) at the University of Bremen before serving as a ‘Juniorprofessorin’ for Modern Eastern European History at the University of Cologne. While there, she also was lead investigator of the international research project The Many Faces of Late Socialism. The Individual in the ‘Eastern Bloc’, 1953-1988. She served as interim professor for Eastern European History at the University of Konstanz (2020) and Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen (2022). Since October 2022, she is an editor with the Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas.