Félix Krawatzek is a political scientist and, since 2018, a senior researcher at ZOiS, where he coordinates the research cluster Youth and Generational Change. He is also associate editor of the journal Communist and Post-Communist Studies and co-spokesperson for the Political and Social Sciences Section of the German Association for East European Studies (DGO). Since September 2022, he heads the ERC-funded project Moving Russia(ns): Intergenerational Transmission of Memories Abroad and at Home (MoveMeRU). Félix Krawatzek's research focuses on the comparative analysis of politics in Eastern and Western Europe. He is particularly interested in the role of youth in politics, the significance of historical representation in political processes, and questions related to migration and transnationalism. Before joining ZOiS, Félix Krawatzek was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford (Department of Politics and International Relations), where he also completed his PhD. From 2018 to 2024, he was an associate member at Nuffield College (University of Oxford). He has been a visiting scholar at Sciences Po Paris and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

Félix Krawatzek is Ombudsperson for questions concerning Good Research Practice.
 

 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 

• Youth and Generational Change

• Emigration during War: A New Generation of Russian Migrants
• Defining the Nation: Young Poles and their Sense of Identity

• Moving Russia(ns): Intergenerational Transmission of Memories Abroad and at Home (MoveMeRU)

• Conflict and Cooperation in Eastern Europe: The Consequences of the Reconfiguration of Political, Economic, and Social Spaces since the End of the Cold War (KonKoop)

• When Every Act is War: Post-Crimea Conflict Dynamics and Russian Foreign Policy (WARU)

• The Proliferation of Memory Laws and the Return of the Nation