Dr. Federica Prina

Biography

Federica Prina joined the Central East European Studies at the University of Glasgow in 2014. From 2014 to 2017, she worked with co-researchers on a project focusing on national cultural autonomy and minority rights in Central Eastern Europe, which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). She was responsible for several research publications concerning the Russian Federation, based on four case studies. In 2018, she became a Senior Lecturer in Security Studies at the Central East European Studies. Previously, from 2011 to 2013, she was employed at the German research institute, European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI), where she coordinated the research cluster on cultural diversity. Prina served as the editor for the Journal of Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE) from 2012 to 2014. She earned her PhD from University College London’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies, focusing on the cultural rights of national minorities and the implementation of international standards regarding minority rights in Russia. Prina has experience as a human rights practitioner, having worked with the London-based NGO Article 19, managing projects related to freedom of expression and media in Eastern Europe and Central Asia from 1997 to 2008. Her research interests include cultural participatory rights of national minorities in the post-Soviet space, ontological security, contemporary Russian politics, nationalism and identity, norm diffusion in the implementation of international human rights law in post-Communist countries, and media pluralism.

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