Anna Deriugina, MA

PhD researcher in the ERC project “GLORE - Global Resettlement Regimes: Ambivalent Lessons learned from the Postwar (1945-1951)”


Contakt
Mail: anna.deriugina@univie.ac.at

Curriculum Vitae and Publications


Anna Deriugina is a historian specializing in postwar migration and the history of Displaced Persons in transnational contexts. She studied at the Russian State University for the Humanities and completed her Master's degree at the University of Vienna with a focus on Soviet Displaced Persons. She has also collaborated for several years with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War.

Since 2025, she has been a PhD candidate in the ERC-funded project GLORE at the Institute of Contemporary History, University of Vienna. Her dissertation project, "Soviet – Russian – Stateless. Resettlement of Russian-speaking Displaced Persons from Austria to Argentina, 1945–1955", compares the migration experiences of former Soviet citizens and stateless Russian émigrés, foregrounding the diverse strategies and forms of agency that shaped their decisions and trajectories in the postwar period.

Key research topics

• Migration and Displaced Persons Studies
• Postwar History
• Russian-speaking Diasporas and Exile Communities