Elisa Satjukow

Elisa Satjukow

Dr Elisa Satjukow studied Eastern and Southeast European History, Literature and Russian Studies in Leipzig and Belgrade. Her doctoral thesis was on NATO’s intervention in the Kosovo war in 1999. She spent many years as a history lecturer and is currently working as an education officer at the European Youth Education and Youth Meeting Centre in Weimar.

Englischsprachige Gedenktafel mit George Soros-Zitat am Campus der Central European University Budapest Site Nádor

Background Article

Why are we still researching Eastern Europe After 1989?

Academic Research on the “Other Europe”

Why are we still conducting research on Eastern Europe? In this article, I use two empirical case studies from the post-socialist period – the founding of the Central European University or "CEU" in Budapest and Eastern European research in the German Democratic Republic – to discuss how...