Kristiina Tõnnisson
Head of Institute, Lecturer in Public Management
PhD (Public Administration and Social Policy)
Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies
Lossi 36, ruum 301
51003 Tartu linn,
Tartu linn, Tartumaa
EST
51003 Tartu linn,
Tartu linn, Tartumaa
EST
+372 737 5583
skytte@ut.ee
Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies
Mail address: Lossi 36, 51003 Tartu, ESTONIA
Phone: +372 737 5583
E-mail: skytte@ut.ee
Head of the Institute: Kristiina Tõnnisson, phone: +372 737 6374, kristiina.tonnisson@ut.ee
Media enquiries should be sent to Marketing and Communications Specialist Kristina Kivistik, kristina.kivistik@ut.ee.
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Mihkel Solvak
Deputy Head for Development, Associate Professor of Technology Research
PhD (Political Science)
CV in Research Information System
Supervision competences:
- e-voting usage patterns, diffusion, effect on turnout and election outcomes;
- e-government, usage and diffusion, economic impact, trust towards the state, e-democracy;
- e-services diffusion, usage patterns and development;
- electoral behavior, voter turnout.
Piret Ehin
Deputy Head for Research, Professor of Comparative Politics
PhD (Political Sciences)
CV in Research Information System
Supervision competences:
- Theories of European integration and applications thereof;
- Democracy and legitimacy in the EU;
- European Parliament elections;
- Parliamentary scrutiny of EU affairs;
- Europeanization of member-state institutions and policies.
Maili Vilson
Deputy Head for Academic Affairs
MA (European Union - Russian Studies)
Eiki Berg
Professor of International Relations Theory, Programme Director for International Relations and Regional Studies
PhD (Geoinformatics and Cartography)
CV in Research Information System
Supervision competences:
- Traditional and critical geopolitics
- Borders, territorial disputes, cross-border cooperation
- Secessionist conflicts and unrecognised states
- Territoriality and sovereignty issues
- Power-sharing and liberal peacebuilding
- EU enlargement
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Visiting Professor of Democracy in Digital Age 0.5 p
MA (Psychology)
Eva Piirimäe
Professor of Political Theory, Programme Director for Political Science
PhD
CV in Research Information System
Supervision competences:
- Theories of liberalism, nationalism, constitutionalism, federalism, sovereignty, international peace and order, self-determination of peoples
- European history of political thought
- Environmental philosophy
- Philosophy of history
- Methodology of history of political thought
Alar Streimann
Visiting Professor of International Relations and Diplomacy
Vincentius Martinus Franciscus Homburg
Professor of E-governance
PhD
CV in Research Information System
Supervision competences:
- E-government & e-governance
- Public governance
- Public service delivery
- Digital and organizational transformation
- Policy change
Andrey Makarychev
Professor of Regional Political Studies
DrSci
CV in Research Information System
Supervision competences:
- Biopolitics,
- Russian foreign and security policies,
- Regionalism and federalism,
- EU-Russia relations,
- the common neighborhood,
- Arts and politics,
- Sport mega-events.
Kristjan Vassil
Professor of Applied Technology Studies 0.1 p
PhD (Political and Social Sciences)
Arnold Sinisalu
Visiting Professor of Security Politics 0.1 p
PhD (Law)
Lossi 36-324
Helen Eenmaa
Associate Professor of Governance and Legal Policy
PhD (Law)
Lossi 36-310
CV in Estonian Research Information System
Supervision competences:
- Legal and moral philosophy
- Law and Economics
- Technology Law
- International Law
- Law and Development
Stefano Braghiroli
Associate Professor of European Studies, Programme Director for European Studies
PhD (Political Sciences)
CV in Research Information System
Supervision competences:
- Party politics in the European Parliament
- EU institutions
- EU member states and party systems
- Euro-scepticism
- Populism and far-right radicalism
- Voting behaviour
- EU-Turkey relations
- Comparative politics
Catherine Helen Gibson
Associate Professor of East European Studies
PhD
Lossi 36-324
CV in Research Information System
Supervision competences:
- Politics of History and Memory
- History of the Russian Empire, Eastern Europe, and Soviet Union
- Language policy and politics
- Theories of nationalism
- Border studies
- Qualitative and interpretative research methods
Martin Mölder
Associate Professor of Political Science, Programme Director for Politics and Governance in the Digital Age
PhD (Political Science)
Raul Toomla
Lecturer in International Relations Theory
PhD (Political Science)
Alar Kilp
Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Programme Director for Government and Politics
PhD (Political Science)
David Ilmar Lepasaar Beecher
Lecturer in Political Thought and Cultural History
PhD (History)
CV in Research Information System
Supervision competencies:
- the concept of Europe and its relationship with Russia
- history of science and universities
- nations and empires
- language and power
- Soviet history ja and theory of literature
- global history
- human rights and globalization
- history of culture and thought
Shpend Kursani
Lecturer in International Relations
PhD
CV in Research Information System
Supervision competences:
- Theories and history of nationalism and nation-statehood
- History of the Baltic states, especially in the first half of the 20th century
- Intellectual and conceptual history
- Politics of history
- Radical right ideologies
Heiko Pääbo
Lecturer in Politics of Baltic Sea Region Countries 0.7 p, Programme Director for Central and Eastern European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
PhD (Political Science)
Helen Urmann
Teacher of Comparative Politics 0.5 p
MA (Democracy and Governance)
Ana-Maria Albulescu
Research Fellow in Peace and Conflict Studies
PhD
Lossi 36-310
Kristina Muhhina
Research Fellow in Public Policy
PhD (Public Administration)
Lossi 36-407
CV in Research Information System
Supervision competences:
- public governance
- public policy
- European Neighborhood Policy and democracy promotion
- qualitative and interpretive research methods
Elena Pavlova
Research Fellow in Political Science
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Juhan Saharov
Research Fellow in Political Theory
PhD (Political Science)
Edgars Eihmanis
Research Fellow in Political Economy
PhD
Research interests:
- political science,
- democracy studies,
- political culture.
CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System
Dmytro Khutkyy
Research Fellow in Digital Governance 0.8 p
PhD (Sociology)
CV in Research Information System
Supervision competences:
- Digital democracy
- Open governance
- Social change and governance of Ukraine
Leonore Riitsalu
Research Fellow in Behavioural Policy 0.5 p
PhD (Management)
CV in Research Information System
Supervision competences:
- Behavioural insights in policymaking
- Interventions for behaviour change
- National strategies for financial education
- Financial well-being
Oksana Belova-Dalton
Research Fellow in International Relations
PhD (English Language and Literature)
Lossi 36-406
Bogdan Romanov
Junior Research Fellow in E-Governance
MA (Democracy and Governance)
Lossi 36-304
CV in Research Information System
Supervision competences:
- Online voting usage in democratic and non-democratic regimes
- Digital governance
- Political trust and distrust
- Healthcare-related policymaking and policy analysis
- Quantitative analysis via Python, R, Stata
- Machine Learning for classification and forecast
- Textual data collection and analysis
Izzet Yalin Youksel
Junior Research Fellow in Political Science
MA (International Relations and Regional Studies)
Lossi 36-422
Oliver William Rowe
Junior Research Fellow in Political Science 0.1 p
Lossi 36-422
CV in Research Information System
Supervision competences:
- Political theory and intellectual history of self-determination, states, and authority
- Russian history 1861-1928; the Russian Revolution and Civil War, intellectual history, terrorism and political violence
- Constitutions and constitutionalism
Azniv Tadevosyan
Junior Research Fellow in Political Science
MA (International Relations and Regional Studies)
Lossi 36-422
CV in Research Information System
Supervision competences:
- Visual politics, popular culture and art activism
- Resistance studies
- Russian politics
- Theories of politics and aesthetics
- Interpretative research methods
Butrint Berisha
Junior Research Fellow in Political Science 0.1 p
MSc (Political Science)
Lossi 36-422
Art Alishani
Junior Research Fellow in E-Governance
MA (Public Sector Innovation and e-Governance)
Lossi 36-405
Ville Tapani Haapanen
Junior Research Fellow in Political Science
MA
Lossi 36-422
Logan Emily Carmichael
Junior Research Fellow in E-Governance
MA
Lossi 36-405
Pirjo Turk
Junior Research Fellow in Political Science
MA (Change Management in Society)
Lossi 36-422
CV in Research Information System
Co-Supervision competences:
- Gender equality (gender pay gap, equal treatment in work environment)
- Child and family policy
- Labour and social policy
Akbar Mammadov
Junior Research Fellow in Political Science
MA (Quantitative Economics)
Lossi 36-422
Karl Lembit Laane
Junior Research Fellow in Political Science
MA (Philosophy)
Lossi 36-422
Sandra Charlotta Hagelin
Junior Research Fellow in Political Science 0.1 p
MA (European Studies)
Lossi 36-422
Supervision competences:
- Border studies
- Critical geopolitics
- EU border-making
- Interpretive research (especially discourse analysis)
Ronek Jäär
Junior Research Fellow in Political Science
MSc (Political Science)
Lossi 36-422
Aigerim Nurseitova
Junior Research Fellow in Political Science
MA (International Relations and Regional Studies)
Lossi 36-310
Simon Sebastian Manfred Kiecker
Junior Research Fellow in Political Science 0.66 p
mag (Economics of Globalisation and European Integration)
Lossi 36-422
Silvia Luik
Marketing and Communications Manager
MA (Musical Science)
+372 5193 9339
Andres Võrk
Analyst 0.5 p
MA (Economics and Business Administration)
Annegrete Molloka
Analyst 0.5 p
MSc (Financial and Insurance Mathematics)
Supervision competences:
- EU Foreign Policy
- External Relations of the European Union
- European Integration
- International Relations theory
- Norms in World Politics
- Security Politics
Kristel Vits
Analyst 0.8 p
MA (International Relations)
Peeter Leets
Developer
MA (Politics and Governance in the Digital Age)
Lossi 36-304
Anna Beitane
Head of Digital Education Projects
MA (European Union - Russia Studies)
Evelyn Pihla
Marketing and Communication Specialist 0.4 p
MA (Information and Knowledge Management)
Uta Kührt
Erasmus Coordinator and Project Manager
MA (Translation)
Thomas Luke Pritchard
Project Manager 0.75 p
MA (International Relations and Regional Studies)
Lossi 36-406
Linda Liis Tanni
International Students Coordinator 0.5 p
Kerli Klock
Project Assistant
MA (International Relations)
Liisa Talving
Associate Professor of Comparative Politics (employment contract suspended)
PhD (Political Science)
Oliivia Võrk
Academic Affairs Specialist (employment contract suspended)
MSc (Ecosystems Technology)
Doris Pavlov
Project Manager-Analyst
MA (Analysis of Society and Information Processes)
Anneli Saaroja
Analyst
MA (Entrepreneurship and Technology Management)
Kristiina Vain
Project Manager-Analyst
MA (Politics and Governance in the Digital Age)
Uku Varblane
Project Manager-Analyst 0.2 p
MA (Economics and Business Administration)
Helen Urmann
Project Manager-Analyst 0.5 p
MA (Democracy and Governance)
CV in Research Information System
Supervision competences:
- Behavioural interventions: design and effectiveness (incl. effectiveness of social programs)
- Social perception and cognitive control (incl. social anxiety related topics)
- (Political) beliefs and decision making processes (experimental basic research)
Keit Simmulmann
Assistant-Analyst
MA (Organisation of Educational Technology)
Anastasiia Turusinova
Digital Marketing Specialist
Marvi Remmik
Project Manager-Analyst 0.1 p
PhD (Educational Science)
+372 515 5395
Maria Kristiina Prass
Project Communication Specialist 0.8 p
MA (Communication Management)
Lossi 36-419
Kaidi Nõmmela
Project Manager-Analyst (employment contract suspended) 0.75 p
PhD (Maritime)
CV in Research Information System
Supervision competences: