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Prof. Dr. Timothy Nunan

Professor für Transregionale Wissenskulturen

Mail: timothy.nunan@ur.de

Tel.: 0941 943 68511

Office: Room BA.821, Bajuwarenstraße 4

Dr. Siarhei Bohdan

Research Associate

Raum: V820, Bajuwarenstraße 4

E-Mail: siarhei.bohdan@ur.de

Telefon:+49 0941 943 68566

Note: From April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026, Dr. Siarhei Bohdan is on a research sabbatical to carry out a research project funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation "Uyghur Emancipation As A Backdoor to China: Soviet Contestation Over East Turkestan/Xinjiang with China and Turkey in the Twentieth Century."


  • Ausgewählter Tab: CV
  • Academic Positions

    since 2/2024 Research Associate at the Professorship for Transregional Cultures of Knowledge, Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies (DIMAS), University of Regensburg

    5/2019- 10/2021

    Research Associate with the Freigeist Junion Research Group »The Cold War's Clash of Civilizations«, Center for Global History, Friedrich Meinecke Institute, Free University of Berlin

    Academic Training

    2013-2016 PhD Studies in PoliticalScience, Free University of Berlin, Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science »Limits of Defiance? The Role of Post-Soviet Nations in Modernisation of Iranian Armed Forces and Defence Industries in 1989-2015)«
    2005-2007 MA in Political Science, European Humanities University, Vilinius, Lithuania
    1994-2004 Diploma of Specialist in International Relations, Persian Language, and Japanese Language, Faculty for International Relations, Belarus State University, Minsk, Belarus (Topic of Diploma Thesis »The PKK Factor in International Relations in the Middle East in the 1980s and 1990s«)
    2002 Diploma in Persian Language and Literature, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran

  • Research
  • Research Interests

    • Geschichte der Sowjetunion im globalen Kontext: sozialistischer Internationalismus, sowjetische Entwicklungshilfe im Global Süden, Kommunistische Parteien im Globalen Süden (Afghanistan, Südjemen)
    • History of the USSR in a Global Context: Socialist Internationalism; Soviet Development Aid to the Global South, Communist Parties in the Global South (Afghanistan, South Yemen)
    • Russian-Chinese Relations, in particular in Central Asia (Xinjiang, Afghanistan)
    • History of Iran
    • History of Afghanistan
    • History of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)
    • Transregional History of Religion
    • Interactions Between Radical Regimes and Actors in the Middle East (Syria, Libya, Iraq, PLO) and the Socialst World (USSR, Eastern Europe and Yugoslavia, PRC)
    • History of Human Rights and Criticism of Human Rights by Illiberal Regimes (Iran, Russia, China)

  • Teaching
  • Summer Semester 2024

    • Unfinished History: Post-Soviet Conflicts from Karabakh to Ukraine

  • Cooperation
  • International Programs

    • Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido, Japan (Summer 2024)


CV

Academic Positions

since 2/2024 Research Associate at the Professorship for Transregional Cultures of Knowledge, Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies (DIMAS), University of Regensburg

5/2019- 10/2021

Research Associate with the Freigeist Junion Research Group »The Cold War's Clash of Civilizations«, Center for Global History, Friedrich Meinecke Institute, Free University of Berlin

Academic Training

2013-2016 PhD Studies in PoliticalScience, Free University of Berlin, Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science »Limits of Defiance? The Role of Post-Soviet Nations in Modernisation of Iranian Armed Forces and Defence Industries in 1989-2015)«
2005-2007 MA in Political Science, European Humanities University, Vilinius, Lithuania
1994-2004 Diploma of Specialist in International Relations, Persian Language, and Japanese Language, Faculty for International Relations, Belarus State University, Minsk, Belarus (Topic of Diploma Thesis »The PKK Factor in International Relations in the Middle East in the 1980s and 1990s«)
2002 Diploma in Persian Language and Literature, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran

Research

Teaching

Cooperation


Dr. Bohdan Awarded Research Fellowship from Gerda Henkel Foundation

Dr. Bohdan has been awarded a research fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation to carry out a research project "Uyghur Emancipation As A Backdoor to China: Soviet Contestation Over East Turkestan/Xinjiang with China and Turkey in the Twentieth Century."

In the project, Dr. Bohdan plans to explore how the Soviet Union provided support for Uyghur nationalist movements during the twentieth century, both during the existence of the Republic of China and the First and Second East Turkestan Republics, as well as later following the founding of the People's Republic of China. Bohdan plans to conduct research trips to Kazakhstan, Turkey, and other countries to explore how Moscow's policies towards Uyghur groups changed following the Sino-Soviet Split and as the Republic of Turkey courted Uyghur nationalist groups.

In order to carry out this research project, Dr. Bohdan will be on sabbatical from April 1, 2025, to March 31, 2026.

Dr. Bohdan Delivers Lecture on Syrian Support for Kurdish Movements During the Cold War

On October 18, 2024, Dr. Bohdan delivered a lecture at the University of Kyoto's CSEAS Eurasia Seminar with the title "'Syria Is Your Country!': External Alliances of Kurdish Guerrilla Movements During the Cold War." The event poster can be found below.

Dr. Bohdan Named Specially Appointed Associate Professor at Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (Hokkaido, Japan)

During the 2025 summer semester, Dr. Bohdan was awarded a fellowship and appointed as Specially Appointed Associate Professor at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center in Hokkaido, Japan. During his time in Hokkaido, Dr. Bohdan delivered several lectures related to his research on the global history of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and current events in Eastern Europe:

  • "No Place for Neutrality? Belarus and the Conflict in Eastern Europe (2014-2024)" (October 17, 2024)
  • "Where There Is More of God? Revolutionary Islamist Iran and Its Partners in Moscow and Pyongyang (1979-1991)" (October 16, 2024)
  • "The Global History of Islamic Revolutionary Guards: (Post-)Soviet Episodes" (July 22, 2024)
  • "The End of History: How I Study It in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia" (June 14, 2024)

Prof. Dr. Timothy Nunan

Professor für Transregionale Wissenskulturen

Mail: timothy.nunan@ur.de

Tel.: 0941 943 68511

Office: Room BA.821, Bajuwarenstraße 4