FRINGE Director: Dr Michal Murawski
FRINGE Deputy Director: Dr Peter Zusi
FRINGE Series Editor: Professor Alena Ledeneva
Project team: academics who run projects on behalf of FRINGE and are responsible for a range of outputs relating to their project, including workshops and publications.
Editorial Board: a network of SSEES and IAS academics who review and commission publications for the FRINGE Series, published by UCL Press.
Friends of FRINGE: a network of individuals who help with the forward planning of the centre.
- Steering Committee
- Prof Alena Ledeneva, Founding Director, 2015-2018, Coordinator of GIP (Global Informality Project)
- Dr Peter Zusi, Director, 2018-2021, Coordinator of UCL Press FRINGE Series
- Dr Michal Murawski, Director, 2021-2024, Coordinator of PPV (Perverting the Power Vertical)
- Project team
- Dr Tim Beasley-Murray, Senior Lecturer in European Thought and Culture
- Dr Tomas Cvrcek, Lecturer In Economics
- Dr Filipa Figueira, Teaching Fellow in Economics and Business
- Professor Maria Rubins, Professor Russian Literature
- Dr Diana Georgescu, Lecturer in Transnational/Comparative South-east European Studies
- Professor Eric Gordy, Professor of Political and Cultural Sociology
- Dr Udo Grashoff, DAAD Francis L. Carsten Lecturer in Modern German History
- Dr Philippa Hetherington, Lecturer in Modern Eurasian History
- Marta Kotwas, PhD Candidate
- Editorial board
Commissioning editors
- Alena Ledeneva
- Dr Peter Zusi
Editorial board
- Tamar Garb
- Tomas Cvrcek
- Eric Gordy
- Maria Rubins
- Tim Matthews
- Friends
Clementine Cecil, Executive Director, Pushkin House
Dorothy Feaver, Producer, editor & writer, BBC
Lucy Ash, Presenter BBC Radio Current Affairs
Bo Rothstein, Professor of Government and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College.
Adrian Stone, Director, Alaco
Dr Charlotte Shaw, Head of Research, Phenomen
Dr Ilya Permyakov, Director, Phenomen
Ruth Mandel, Vice-Dean International, Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences, UCL
Pete Duncan, Senior Lecturer in Russian Politics and Society, UCL SSEES
Colin Marx, Lecturer in Land Planning and Management, UCL Bartlett
Dr Stephanie Bird, Lecturer in German & Director of UCL School of European Languages, Culture & Society, UCL SELCS
Prof Jan Kubik, Professor of Slavonic and East European Studies, former UCL SSEES Director
Prof Tamar Garb, Professor in the History of Art & Director of UCL Institute of Advanced Studies
Dr Gemma Angel, UCL IAS Junior Research Fellow (2015/2016)
Dr Laurent Dissard, UCL IAS Junior Research Fellow (2015/2016)
Dr Ellen Filor, UCL IAS Junior Research Fellow (2015/2016)
Dr Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed, UCL IAS Junior Research Fellow (2015/2016)
Prof Stuart Elden, UCL IAS Visiting Senior Research Fellows (2015/2016)
Rilka Dragneva-Lewers, Reader in Law, Development and Regional Integration
Magda Buchczyk, Senior Research Associate, University of Bristol
Ruzica Simic Banovic, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb
Bernhard Reinsberg, Post-doctoral Research Associate, Cambridge
Anastassia Forquenot De La Fortelle, Professor of Russian and Literature, UNIL, University of Lausanne
Egle Rindzeviciute, Lecturer Criminology Sociology, Kingston University, London
Dace Dzenovska, Associate Professor in Anthropology of Migration, Oxford
Rossen Djagalov, Assistant Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University
Sven Horak, Assistant Professor of Management, St. John's University, New York
Vesna Popovski, Research Officer at London School of Economics, Research on South Eastern Europe
Saadi Lahlou, Professor, Department of Social Psychology, London School of Economics
Mayfair Yang, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Yoshiko Herrera, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Caroline Humphrey, Professor of Collaborative Anthropology (2006-2010), University of Cambridge
Nicolette Makovicky, Lecturer in Russian and East European Studies, Oxford University.
Tom Stottor, Editor of History and Politics, I.B.Tauris Publishing House
Jessica Pisano, Associate Professor of Politics, New School NYC
Magda Raczynska, Head of Literature , Polish Cultural Institute London
Lesya Myata, PR and Project Coordinator (Russia), Calvert 22
Dr Stevphen Shukaitis, Senior Lecturer in Culture & Organization, University of Essex
Dr Klara Kemp-Welch, Lecturer in 20th Century Modernism, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Laurence Cockcroft, Professional career as Development Economist, Former chairman of Transparency International (UK), author of 'Global Corruption: Money, Power and Ethics’ (2012) and co-author of 'Unmasked: Corruption in the West’ (2016