Reviews editor (2010– )
Journal of Baltic Studies (Routledge)
Courses taught present academic year / Undervisning innevarande läsår
Peoples of the Baltic (7.5 hp) (link)
Romsk kultur (7.5 hp) (link)
International affiliations:
Network coordinator for the UACES-funded collaborative research network "Romanis in Europe"
Project researcher “Norske frivillige i Waffen-SS 1940–45” (Norwegian volunteers in the Waffen SS, 1940–45), based at the HL-senteret, Oslo, Norway.
Board member, Baltic University Programme
Member, UK Baltic Studies Group
Affiliated researcher, Museum of the Occupation of Latvia
Primary research interests / Forskningsintressen:
socio-political history of Latvia and the wider the Baltic Sea Region in the twentieth century;
history of Nazi Germany, particularly the SS and police system;
history of the USSR, particularly the Civil War and Stalinist period;
the intellectual, social, and political roots of communist and fascist movements in the Baltic and the Nordic countries;
migrations and diasporas, particularly to, from, or within northern Europe;
the Roma and Traveller communities in northern Europe;
theories of civil society and totalitarianism.
Selected publications / Utvalda publikationer:
“Rekrutierung der Waffen-SS im Reichskommissariat Ostland: Der Versuch einer schwer fassbaren Synthese” (forthcoming in a volume on Reichskommissariat Ostland from IZRG in Flensburg and Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt).
“Forskare måste tänka nytt kring romer”, Tvärsnitt 2009, no. 4, pp. 20–1. (link).
“Antropologen Gaston Backman och den uppsaliensiska rasbiologins spridning i tid och rum”, in: Helmut Müssener and Per Jegebäck (eds.), Rasen och vetenskapen, Uppsala Multiethnic Papers 51, UUHGS Publications 3 (Uppsala: Centrum för multietnisk forskning; Programmet för studier kring Förintelsen och folkmord, 2009), pp. 59–82.
(with Bernt Rougthvedt) “Kongsvinger: Politiutdannelse eller opplæring i folkemord?”, Fortid 2009, no. 2, pp. 6–14. (link)
“What Does the Holocaust in the Baltic States Have to Do with the SS’ Plans for Occupied Norway?”, in: Dzintars Ērglis (ed.), Holokausta pētniecības problēmas Latvijā / Problems of the Holocaust Research in Latvia, Symposium of the Commission of the Historians of Latvia 23 (Riga: Latvijas vēstures institūta apgāds, 2008), pp. 139–61. (link)
“Soviet Genocide in Latvia: Stalin’s Great Terror (1937–38) as Antecedent and Other Aspects of the Recent Historiography”, Latvijas Okupācijas Muzeja Gadagramāta / Yearbook of the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia 2007, pp. 42–54.
(with Harald Runblom) “Estnische und lettische Flüchtlinge in Schweden seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg”, in: Klaus J. Bade et al. (eds.), Enzyklopädie Migration in Europa: Vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart (Munich &c.: Ferdinand Schöningh; Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2007), pp. 553–5. An English-language edition is forthcoming 2011 from Cambridge University Press. (link)
“Towards an Uncivil Society: Reactions to Soviet and Nazi Occupation and the Demise of Civil Society in Riga, 1939–1949”, D.Phil. thesis (University of Oxford, 2006).
“The Portrayal of Soviet Atrocities in the Nazi-controlled Latvian-language Press and the First Wave of Antisemitic Violence in Riga, July-August 1941”, in: David Gaunt, Paul A. Levine and Laura Palosuo (eds.), Collaboration and Resistance during the Holocaust: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (Bern &c.: Peter Lang, 2004), pp. 127–60.
(with Heinrihs Strods) “The File on Operation Priboi: A Re-Assessment of the Mass Deportations of 1949”, Journal of Baltic Studies 33, no. 1 (2002), pp. 1–36; no. 2 (2002), p. 241. (link)
Selected book reviews / Utvalda recensioner:
"Writing history politically: A safe haven for war criminals?", review of Purgatorium: Sverige och andra världskrigets förbrytare by Mats Deland, in Baltic Worlds 3, no. 4 (2010), pp. 43–5 (link)
"Unichtozhit' kak mozhno bol'she...": Latviiskie kollaboratsionistskie formirovaniia na territorii Belorussii, 1942-1944 gg. Sbornik dokumentov, ed. by A.R. Diukov, V.V. Simindei et al., in Holokost i suchasnist' no. 1(7) (2010), pp. 183-91. (link)
Ordinary People as Mass Murderers: Perpetrators in Comparative Perspectives, ed. by Olaf Jensen and Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann, in Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History 14, no. 3 (2010), pp. 165-7.
Lettland under Zweiten Weltkrieg: Zwischen sowjetischen und deutschen Besatzern 1940–1946 by Björn M. Felder, in Journal of Baltic Studies 41, no. 1 (2010), pp. 139–42. (link).
Die “Endlösung” in Riga: Ausbeutung und Vernichtung by Andrej Angrick and Peter Klein, Holocaust and Genocide Studies 23, no. 2 (2009), pp. 308–11. (link).
The Vanished World of the Lithuanian Jews, ed. by Alvydas Nikzentaitis, Stefan Schreiner, and Darius Staliunas, in Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History 13, no. 2-3 (2007), pp. 185–8.
Latvia in World War II by Valdis O. Lumans, in Journal of Baltic Studies 38, no. 3 (2007), pp. 377–9. (link).
Estonia 1940–1945: Reports of the Estonian International Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against Humanity, in Holocaust and Genocide Studies 21, no. 3 (2007), pp. 321–3. (link).
The Radical Right in Interwar Estonia by Andres Kasekamp, in Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnāls 2001, no. 2, pp. 189–93.
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