Zhanna Popova, MA PhD

Room: ground floor, Apostelgasse 23, 1030 Wien

eMail: zhanna.popova@univie.ac.at  

Telefon: +43-1-4277-413 35

Since 09/2026 FWF project (ESPRIT) "The Making of Transnational Labour Expertise"

CV (pdf)

Education

  • 2019 PhD in Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam 
    Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research               
  • 2013 Research Master in Social Sciences, Program “Pratique de l’interdisciplinarité en sciences sociales”  
    Ecole normale supérieure/EHESS, Paris 
    Fully funded by the ENS scholarship for foreign students – Sélection internationale
  • 2011 Undergraduate diploma in History
    Moscow State University, Moscow 

Research Interests

  • Labour history
  • Gender history
  • East Central Europe
  • Global history
  • Polish history
  • Internationalism
  • Labour activism


Current Project

  • FWF Esprit project “The Making of Transnational Labour Expertise: Labour Inspection in Poland, 1900s–1950s”


Networks and Acitivities

  • 2026ff.  Fellow, International Institute of Social History
    2023ff.  Co-chair of the Labour Network of the European Social Science History Conference
    2021     Three-month research fellowship at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw (deferred due to pregnancy and the Covid pandemic)
    2016     Global Fellow at the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History, Harvard University (spring semester)

Publications

Selected Publications (pdf)