Staff:Alena Pfoser

Alena Pfoser is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at Loughborough University, UK. She studied social sciences and Russian and Eurasian Studies in Vienna, Krasnodar, St Petersburg and Loughborough. Her research focuses on contested cultural memories, heritage and identity in a transnational arena and has examined the production of cultural memories in tourism and remembering and place-making in the context of border change. She has published extensively in leading peer-reviewed journals and is the author of the forthcoming monograph “Tourism as memory-making: Russian tourism in the shadow of empire” based on her ESRC New Investigator Grant (2019-2022). She is currently a Mercator fellow in the Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group "The Social-Spatial Memory of European Borders" at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space.