About

CORUSCANT, the Research Collective on Contemporary Russia for the Analysis of its New Trajectories was launched in autumn 2023. The Paris-based multidisciplinary collective proposes to rethink research about contemporary Russia, as the full-scale invasion of Ukraine is challenging traditional methods and questions on the country. Read our manifesto.

Our team
  • Dr Maxime Audinet
    Research Fellow, Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM, Paris), lecturer, Paris Nanterre University.
    Publications
  • Dr Julie Deschepper
    Assistant Professor in Heritage and Museum studies, Utrecht University. Publications
  • Dr Clémentine Fauconnier
    Associate Professor in Political Science, University of Haute Alsace (Mulhouse).
    Publications
  • Dr Kevin Limonier
    Associate Professor in Slavic Studies, French Institute of Geopolitics, Université Paris 8.
    Publications
  • Appoline Roy

    PhD candidate, French Institute of Geopolitics, Université Paris 8.
  • Morvan Lallouet
    PhD candidate, University of Kent, CORUSCANT project-manager.
    Publications
  • Dr Sarah Gruszka
    Historian, researcher, CERCEC-EHESS and Sorbonne University.
    Publications
  • Dr Jules Sergei Fediunin
    Postdoctoral researcher, EHESS.
    Publications
  • Dr Juliette Faure
    Teaching and research fellow, Paris-Panthéon-Assas University.
    Publications
  • Dr Mona Claro
    Associate professor in sociology and gender studies, Liège University.
    Publications
  • Domenico Scagliusi
    PhD candidate in slavic studies, Sorbonne University.
    Publications
  • Dr Louis Pétiniaud
    Researcher, French Institute of Geopolitics, and GEODE, Université Paris 8.
    Publications
  • Dr Victor Violier
    Research Fellow, Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM, Paris).
    Publications
  • Dr Svetlana Russkikh
    Post-doctoral fellow, Université de Picardie Jules-Verne
    Publications
Partners
CORUSCANT supported by the following universities, research centres and institution
Network and diffusion
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