Justyna Pierzynska is a PhD student at the Department of Social Research, unit for Media and Communication Studies, Helsinki University. She holds an MA in Slavonic Studies from the University of Vienna and a postgraduate certificate in Development Studies from the University of Warsaw. She is interested in Central and Eastern European mediated perceptions of history and popular understandings of geopolitics in the region, with special regard to Russia, Serbia and the Caucasus.
She will have a two months stay, starting from 7 April 2018, during which she will also give a lecture on one of the topics of her study.