Marina Shcherbakova coordinates the VW Momentum Project „From Pre-Modern to Modern Perspectives in Judaic Studies“ in the unit of Jewish studies at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich. She is also working on her doctoral dissertation „Soviet Jewish Museums Within and Beyond the State Nationalities Policies, 1917 – 1952“ at Heidelberg University. Her research is focused on politics and practices of musealization of the Jewish culture in Soviet Uzbekistan, Georgia, and Ukraine, with a special interest in center-periphery relations in the diaspora of the former Russian Empire. Beyond that, she was involved in the exhibition projects at the Foundation of the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin and the Judaica Division of the Russian Museum of Ethnography in St. Petersburg.
M.Shcherbakova@lmu.de
Areas of Interest
Jewish minorities in the Soviet Union, center-periphery relations, history of nationalism, politics of cultural heritage, ethnography of Jewish people, Jewish museums and memorials, Yiddish
Historical Periods of Interest
Modern period (late 19th and 20th centuries), interwar period (1920s-1930s)
Positions
2024
Academic coordinator, Volkswagen Momentum project “From Pre-Modern to Modern Perspectives in Judaic Studies”, Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich
2022 – 2024
Executive assistant, Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten, Oranienburg
2012 – 2016
Research associate, Department of Ethnography of Jews, Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg
2012 – 2014
Lecturer, Department of Jewish Culture, Faculty of Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg
2007-2008
Research assistant, Project “Die historische Syntax of the West Yiddish language“, Department of Yiddish Studies, Trier University, Germany
Education
2015
PhD Candidate in Eastern European History, Department of Eastern European History, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany
2014
MA in German Studies, Potsdam University, Germany
