Dr. Sabine von Löwis

Lead PrincipaI Investigator

• A5: Ethnic Minorities in Border Regions – Potential for Conflict or Cooperation? – Workshop (with Beate Eschment)
• C1: Adaption Strategies and Negotiation Processes – Theoretical and Empirical Approaches  – Workshop (with Julia Langbein)
• C3: Economic Survival Strategies in the Context of Unrecognized Statehood
• C4: Cross-Border Trade between Conflict and Cooperation – Workshop (with Julia Langbein)
• C5: From Centralized Energy Supply to Decentralized Sustainability – Workshop (with Beril Ocaklı and Henryk Alff)
• D5: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Changing Arctic Realities – between Cooperation and Conflicting Interests – Workshop (with Nadja Douglas)
• E3: Ceasefire Lines – Forms of Negotiations between Elites and Everyday Life

Sabine von Löwis is senior researcher at ZOiS since 2017 and head of the research cluster Conflict Dynamics and Border Regions.

She studied Economic and Social Geography at the Technical University of Dresden (TU Dresden) and gained a doctorate in political science at HafenCity University in Hamburg. She has held positions at various university and non-university research institutes, working on projects on the stability and change of spatial structures in urban and rural areas. From 2011 to 2017, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch, where she was involved in the joint research project Phantomgrenzen in Ostmitteleuropa (Phantom borders in East Central Europe) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Having studied the persistence and dissolution of spatial structures in Western Ukraine within this project framework, she now focuses her research on the post-Soviet space.

Curriculum Vitae (last updated: 23/02/21)

• Social geography of space and place
• Transformation, change
• Microgeographies
• Borders
• Conflict Research

Löwis, von Sabine; Eschment, Beate. Post-Soviet Borders. A Kaleidoscope of Shifting Lives and Lands. London: Routledge 2022.

Löwis, von Sabine; Crivenco, Andrei. Shrinking Transnistria. Trends and Effects of Demographic Decline in a De Facto State. In: Comparative Southeast European Studies, 70 (2022), 1, pp. 47-79.

Löwis, von Sabine; Sasse, Gwendolyn. A Border Regime in the Making? The Case of the Contact Line in Ukraine. In: Historical Social Research, 46 (2021), 3, pp. 208-244.

Higher Education in Europe’s Unrecognised Territories. Challenges and Opportunities, with Thomas de Waal. ZOiS Report 2/2020.

Löwis, von Sabine (Hrsg). Umstrittene Räume in der Ukraine. Politische Diskurse, literarische Repräsentationen und kartographische Visualisierungen. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2019