Andreas Umland is a German political scientist, historian and Russian interpreter, specializing in contemporary Russian and Ukrainian history.
Education
He studied Russian and history, as well as political science, and received a CertTransl diploma in Leipzig University, an Department of Administration and Management at Stanford University, Master of Philosophy at University of Oxford, DipPolSci and a Doctor of Philisophy at Free University of Berlin and a Doctor of Philosophy at Cambridge.
Career
He lives in Kyiv, while teaching at the National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy". He is one of the leading German specialists in the history and politics of Ukraine and also of Russia. His studies of Russian and Ukrainian politics focus on the post-Soviet extreme right.
Since 2005, he has also been involved in the creation of a new Master"s program in German and European Studies administered jointly by Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Jena University.
He was also a visiting fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, in 1997-1999, and Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, in 2001-2002, a Bosch lecturer at Yekaterinburg’s Ural State University, in 1999-2001, and Kiev’s Mohyla Academy, in 2003/05, a temporary lecturer in Russian and East European studies at Saint Antony’s College, Oxford, in January–December 2004, and a German Academic Exchange Service lecturer at Kyiv Shevchenko University, in 2005-2008. In 2008-2010 Umland served as a academic adviser in the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
Politics
He has been general editor of the book series "Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society" in Ibidem Edition since 2004, co-compiler of the biweekly "Russian Nationalism Bulletin" since 2007, and co-editor of the web journal "Forum noveishei vostochnoevropeiskoi istorii i kul"tury" (engineering: Forum of contemporary East European history and culture) since 2008. Fascism Past and Present, West and East: An International Debate on Concepts and Cases in the Comparative Study of the Extreme Right (Stuttgart & Hannover: ibidem-Verlag 2007).
Membership
He is a member of the Russian "Valdai International Discussion Club".