Ekaterina Mikhailova
Job description
Ekaterina Mikhailova is a Political Geographer working at the crossroads of Border Studies, Eastern European Studies and Governance. She has over ten years of research experience, studying Eurasian borderlands. She is a regional editor of the Journal of Borderlands Studies and Head of the project "Border(land) Museums as sites of remembering and forgetting: between lieux de mémoire et lieux de l’oubli" (2026-2028) funded by the French-Nordic trilateral program CUNP/FMSH.
Before joining the UiT, Dr. Mikhailova held postdoctoral positions in many well-known centres of Border Research and Eastern European Studies, including the University of Eastern Finland (Finland), the University of Geneva (Switzerland), the Leibniz Institute for Eastern and South-Eastern European Studies (Germany) and Luxembourg Institute of Social-Economic Research (Luxembourg).
Publications outside Cristin
- Mikhailova E. and J. Garrard (eds.) 2022. Twin Cities across Five Continents: Interactions and Tensions on Urban Borders. Routledge, New York and London. Global Urban Series. DOI: 10.4324/9781003102526
- Garrard J. and E. Mikhailova (eds.) 2019. Twin Cities: Urban Communities, Borders and Relationships over Time. Routledge, New York and London. Global Urban Series. DOI: 10.4324/9781315104638
- Latest publication: Mikhailova, E. (2025). Sentral-Asias grenser etter 2022: fra grensekonflikter til prioritering av regionalt samarbeid. Nordisk Østforum, 39, 170–178. https://doi.org/10.23865/noros.v39.7363
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For a full list of publications, please see Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=inBsSzMAAAAJ&hl=en
Research interests
- Borders and Borderlands
- Territorial Identites
- Critical Toponymy
- City Diplomacy
- Arctic Cities
- Eastern European Studies
- Central Asian Studies
