Dr. Susann Worschech

• Democracy & civil society in Ukraine
• Sociology of Europeanisation
• Political sociology, in particular democracy and transformation research
• Political resilience research
• Civil society and social movements
• Sociological research on Central and Eastern Europe

ACADEMIC PROGRESS

Since April 2024
Scientific Coordinator
Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Frankfurt (Oder) - Berlin
European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)

09/2023-10/2023 Research Fellow
Yale University, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies
New Haven, USA

Winter semester 2022/23
Substitute Professor for International Integration with special reference to Eastern Europe
Institute for Political Science
Justus Liebig University Giessen

since 04/2012
Research Associate,
European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)
Master's Programme European Studies / Viadrina Institute for European Studies (IFES)

2009 - 2015
PhD in Social Sciences
"The 'production' of civil society: donor strategies and actor networks of external
democracy promotion using the example of Ukraine"
Overall grade: summa cum laude
European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)

2004 - 2007
Diploma in Social Sciences
Topic of the diploma thesis: "Populism in East Central Europe using the example of Poland"
Overall grade: 1.2
Humboldt University of Berlin

S T I P E N D I E N & P R E I S E

2019 Postdoc Prize 2019 of the State of Brandenburg
2019 State Teaching Prize 2019 of the State of Brandenburg
2019 DAAD travel grant in the congress travel programme
2017 Klaus Mehnert Prize 2016 of the German Association for East European Studies (DGO)
2017 Klaus Mehnert Prize 2016 of the German Association for East European Studies (DGO)
. (DGO)
2014-2015 Graduate scholarships from the Viadrina Center for Graduate Studies and the Commissioner for Families
of the European University Viadrina
2009-2013 Doctoral scholarship, Heinrich Böll Foundation
2004-2007 Study scholarship, Heinrich Böll Foundation