Olga Povoroznyuk has defended her PhD-thesis

27.09.2022

Olga Povoroznyuk successfully defended her PhD-thesis "Soviet Infrastructure in the Post-Soviet Era? Building a Railroad and Identity along the Baikal–Amur Mainline in East Siberia"

On September 19, 2022, CoRe-team member Olga Povoroznyuk successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Her cumulative dissertation introduces the notion of transformative infrastructure and focuses on the role of large-scale infrastructures as articulations of state modernization and identity building. The research was supported by the FWF project CoRe [P 27625 Einzelprojekte] and the ERC project InfraNorth (PROJECT-ID: 885646) 

Photos from the defense by Ria-Maria Adams