Dr. Claudia Eggart
Assoziierte
Email: claudia.eggart(at)zmo.de
Positions
Education
Scholarships & Fellowships
2025 – 2026 First Book Grant, Independent Social Research Foundation
2025 – Three-months fellowship at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland
2024 – 2025 Visiting Researcher at the New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania
2022 – Three-months fellowship at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2021 – Three-months fellowship at the University of Tampere, Finland
2019 – 2022 School of social science scholarship, University of Manchester
2018 – 2019 Master’s scholarship, Central European University
2016 – 2018 Deutschlandstipendium
Publications
Eggart, C., 2024. Waiting at Giurgiulesti Customs. Borders, Bureaucracy, and Geopolitics in between Ukraine, Moldova, and the EU. Geopolitics. ahead-of-print, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2024.2351083
Eggart, C., 2023b. “Made in Kyrgyzstan is Gold!” The Rise of the Informal Kyrgyzstani Apparel Industry. Third World Quarterly. ahead-of-print, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2254242
Eggart, C., 2023a. ‘They Called Us Spekulyanty’: Shame and Pride in the Biographies of Female Shuttle Traders in Post-Soviet Russia. Europe-Asia Studies. (75), 10, p.1677–1697. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2023.2186320
01/2025 - Blog post: Unpacking Emotions in Post-Soviet Russia: The Role of Shame and Pride in Socioeconomic Transformation, in Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia
09/2023 - Spotlight: Gelebte Geopolitik: Getreidelogistik zwischen Krieg und Grenze, ZOiS Website (Centre for East European and International Studies)
06/2022 - Spotlight: Das Ende des Postsowjetischen/The End of the Post-Soviet, ZOiS Website (Centre for East European and International Studies)
04/2022 - Blog post: Grassroot-level Humanitarian Aid and the Paradoxes of Logistics, Regulation, and Geography in Times of War, COMPAS blog: ‘Making sense of the war’ (Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford)
10/2020 - Blog post: Mapping the post-Soviet Market in Crisis, In Boasblog: Fieldwork Meets Crisis
Selected Talks and Conference Presentations
University of Fribourg, Social Anthropology Colloquium (6/2025)
Presentation Title: Lived Geopolitics. A Research Agenda for Social Anthropologists
CERCEC, the Centre for Russian, Caucasian and Central European Studies, Paris (2/2025)
Presentation Title: Lived Geopolitics: Rescaling Market Infrastructures from Soviet Collapse to Imperial Backlash. Case studies of the Bishkek and Odesa markets
Romanian Academy of Science (10/2024)
Presentation Title: Transport Geopolitics at the Margins. Embedded Infrastructures in the Lower Danube Borderlands
Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford (10/2023)
Presentation Title: Fragile Network, Stable Node. Customs, Geopolitics and Human Infrastructures at a Kyrgyz Bazaar
Backstages of Globalization: New Perspectives on Infrastructure and Power in the 20th Century, Zentrum für Zeitgeschichtliche Forschung (ZZF), Potsdam (11/2024)
Title: The Container: An Archaeology of Infrastructure at the Dordoi Bazaar in Bishkek and the 7Km Market in Odesa
European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA), Barcelona (07/2024)
Double Panel Convener with Rozafa Berisha
Panel: Locating the Geopolitical. Thinking Anthropologically about Spatialised Power Politics
CASNiG. Multilayered/Multiscalar: Central Asian Mobilities, Leipzig (11/2023)
Title: Container. A Material Archaeology of the Market Infrastructure
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Rio de Janeiro (07/2023)
Title: ‘Made in Kyrgyzstan is Gold!’ The Rise of the Informal Kyrgyzstani Apparel Industry
States in Between. European Architecture History Network (EAHN), Helsinki (06/2023)
Title: Waiting at Giurgiulesti Customs. The Architecture of Infrastructure at a Border Triangle (collaboration with Sandra Parvu, CNRS/ University of Paris)
ASEEES Conference 2022, Chicago (11/2022)
Title: Troubling Trauma Theories. Female Shuttle-Traders Telling their
Own Stories of the “Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the 20th Century”
ReCentGlobe Conference, Leipzig (03/2022)
Title: Lived Geopolitics. Strategic Narratives and Local Responses of Wholesaler at Container Markets in Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan
European Congress on World and Global History (ENIUGH), online (06/2021)
Title: ‘Lived Geopolitics of Labour Migrants and Cross-Border Traders in Kyrgyzstan’