Dr. Sabine von Löwis

Lead PrincipaI Investigator

Projects

Bio

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)

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

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

Contact

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 Sabine von Löwis at ZOiS

Home Institution

ZOiS – Centre for Eastern European and International Studies

https://www.zois-berlin.de/