Work address: University College Freiburg Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Bertoldstr. 17 79085 Freiburg Phone: (0049) 761 203 67441 Web: www.ucf.uni-freiburg.de Email: mikalayeva@ucf.uni-freiburg.de Private address: Sundgauallee 58 79110 Freiburg Phone: (0049) 176 313 90 659 Web: www.mikalayeva.com Email: mikalayeva@gmail.com DR. LIUDMILA MIKALAYEVA RESEARCH FOCUS International policy evaluation International standard-setting, monitoring of international treaties, international organizations, Council of Europe, European Union, United Nations European Union and its enlargement New EU members, CEE and Baltic States, policy of conditionality Policy areas Language, education, non-discrimination, national minorities, human rights Methodology Discourse and text analysis, comparative analysis including QCA EDUCATION 2007-2011 SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (ETH) ZURICH: DOCTOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE Thesis: Discursive Dynamics of Compliance: International Involvement in National Minority Protection (ETH does not ascribe doctoral grades or mentions) Doctoral committee: Prof. Frank Schimmelfennig (supervisor, ETH), Prof. Anita Fetzer (University of Würzburg), Prof. Marju Lauristin (University of Tartu), Dr. Guido Schwellnus (University of Vienna) 2004-2005 INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL STUDIES PARIS: RESEARCH MASTER IN COMPARED SOCIETIES AND POLICIES Thesis: Dialogue between Estonia and the Council of Europe on the Question of National Minorities (in French, mention Very good ) 1999-2004 JOINT PROGRAM OF INSTITUTES OF POLITICAL STUDIES OF STRASBOURG, GRENOBLE, LILLE AND BORDEAUX AND EUROPEAN HUMANITIES UNIVERSITY MINSK: DIPLOMA IN POLITICAL SCIENCE Thesis: Principles of linguistic policy during revolutions (in French, mention Excellent ) Red diploma (summa cum laude), best result and best thesis 2000-2001 JOINT PROGRAM OF INSTITUTES OF POLITICAL STUDIES OF STRASBOURG, GRENOBLE, TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN, AND EUROPEAN HUMANITIES UNIVERSITY MINSK: CERTIFICATE IN EUROPEAN STUDIES With excellence 1997-1999 HIGH SCHOOL-LYCEUM 95 MINSK: HIGH SCHOOL CERTIFICATE Gold medal for outstanding performance
WORK Since February 2014 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FREIBURG LECTURER AND COURSE COORDINATOR FOR THE MAJOR GOVERNANCE Curriculum development for the Major Governance ; Teaching and advising to a large cohort of bachelor students; Conceptual and organizational development of the major Governance ; Participation in the institutionalization of the University College Freiburg. 2012-2013 BREMEN INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (BIGSSS) POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER AND ACADEMIC COORDINATOR OF THE RESEARCH FIELD GLOBAL INTEGRATION Independent research and publications (five published papers); Presentation of research findings at six international conferences; Academic advice and guidance provided to doctoral fellows of the field; Organization of a welcome workshop for incoming doctoral fellows; Teaching (4 SWS) at the bachelor, master, and doctoral levels. Development of new courses and teaching methods. Supervision and examination of students. Supervision of teaching assistants. Dissemination of information on teaching methods, including academic publications on the topic (in preparation); Participation in the academic activities of the Graduate School. 2007-2011 ETH ZURICH, CENTER FOR COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, EUROPEAN POLITICS GROUP DOCTORAL AND POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER Research for the project Adoption, Implementation and Sustainability of Minority Protection Rules in the Context of EU Conditionality in Ten New Member States in Central and Eastern Europe, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation; Research for the doctoral project Discursive Dynamics of Compliance: International Involvement in National Minority Protection, including field trips to conduct interviews; Organization and academic participation in an international workshop Implementation of Minority Protection Rules, with invited experts from nine European countries; Presentation of research findings at eight international conferences; Preparation of collective and single-authored publications; Teaching at the master level. Supervision and examination of students. Supervision of two junior teaching colleagues; Participation in the academic activities of the research group European politics. TEACHING BACHELOR INTRODUCTION TO GOVERNANCE : University College Freiburg (2014) New course with numerous workgroup activities DIPLOMACY : University of Bremen (2012-2013) New course with a role-play simulation of international negotiations INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS : University of Bremen (2012-2013) New writing-intensive course MASTER LANGUAGE ANALYSIS : ETH Zurich (2009-2011) New methods course co-developed and co-taught with Dr. Guido Schwellnus (50/50) INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF MINORITIES : University of Bremen (2012) and ETH Zurich (2011) Adapted research course PHD DISCOURSE ANALYSIS : BIGSSS (2012) Workshop methods course Page 2
TRAINING IN TEACHING AND ACADEMIC SKILLS Academic Writing. Prof. Art Woodward. Doctoral semester course at BIGSSS, Bremen (2013) Supervising students dealing with roles and relationships. ETH Zurich (2011) Academic writing and publication strategies. Prof. William Germano. ETH Zurich (2010) Teaching and tutoring. Training for doctoral students. ETH Zurich (2007) TRAINING IN RESEARCH METHODS Qualitative Methods: Interviewing Skills. Dr. Liz Spencer, University of Zurich. 5-day PhD workshop course (2011) Quantitative Narrative Analysis. Prof. Roberto Franzosi, ECPR Summer School in Research Methods in Ljubljana. 2-week methods course, 5 ETCS, mark Excellent (2007) Quantitative research methods in social sciences. Prof. Simon Hug, ETH Zurich. 1-semester MA course, 4 ETCS, mark Excellent. Software used: Stata (2007) GRANTS AND SCOLARSHIPS 2010 Swiss National Science Foundation and Center for Comparative and International Studies Grants for an international workshop on Minority Protection Rules (12 000 Swiss Francs in total). With Guido Schwellnus and Lilla Balázs 2008-2011 Swiss National Science Foundation Member of a successful application for funding for the research project Adoption, Implementation and Sustainability of Minority Protection Rules in the Context of EU Conditionality in Ten New Member States in Central and Eastern Europe (290 000 Swiss Francs for three years). Principal investigators - Frank Schimmelfennig and Guido Schwellnus 2004-2005 French Government Grant for master studies ( 10 000 Euro for one year) 1999-2004 European Humanities University Performance-based tuition fee waiver ORGANIZATION OF ACADEMIC EVENTS Welcome Workshop Research Field A, BIGSSS, including a thematic discussion with invited experts Arab Spring Democratic Transition in 21 st century?, 19 October 2012 3-day International Workshop Implementation of Minority Protection Rules, Center for Comparative and International Studies, Zurich, 17-19 September 2010 Page 3
LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE English Full professional proficiency. Cambridge Advanced English test passed with grade 92/100 (level C2) French Full professional proficiency. Diplôme Approfondi de Langue Française passed with grade 90/100 (C2) German Advanced knowledge. Goethe-Institut test for Zertifikat C1 passed with grade 90,5/100 (C1) Russian, Belarusian Native speaker Spanish Beginner NON-ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE 2006 3-month Internship at the Party Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, German Federal Parliament, Berlin Including a trip to Ukraine for the 20 th anniversary of the Chernobyl explosion, where I acted as interpreter during the visit to the contaminated zone. Supervisor: Lukas Beckmann 2002 3-month Internship at the Departments of Western and Eastern Europe, Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Minsk 2001-2006 Free-lance translator and coacher in French PUBLICATIONS PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS 2013 Principles of linguistic policy: Comparative study of the French and the October Revolutions European Journal of Language Policy 5.2, pages 159-185 [in French] 2012 The Revocation of Minority-Protection Rules in New EU Member States: Language and Education Policy in Slovakia and Latvia L Europe en formation 364 (summer 2012), pages 379-400. With Guido Schwellnus and Lilla Balázs Reporting under International Conventions: a Genre Analysis" The Hague Journal of Diplomacy 7.3, pages 287-312 Project Report: A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Minority Protection Rules in Ten New EU Member States European Yearbook of Minority Issues 9, pages 117-145. With Guido Schwellnus and Lilla Balázs 2009 It ain t over when it s over: The Adoption and Sustainability of Minority Protection Rules in New EU Member States European Integration online Papers Special Issue 2.13. With Guido Schwellnus and Lilla Balázs OTHER PUBLICATIONS 2012 Strategies of Response and Responsiveness in Diplomatic Communication In: Anita Fetzer et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the ESF Workshop Follow-ups across Discourse Domains: A Page 4
Cross-cultural Exploration of Their Forms and Functions, pages 178-191, http://opus.bibliothek.uniwuerzburg.de/volltexte/2012/7165/ (workshop paper) Extended review of Ilie, Cornelia (ed.), European Parliaments under Scrutiny. 2010. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 378 pp. Journal of Language and Politics 11.1, pages 162-167 2011 Negotiating Compliance: Discursive Choices in a Formalized Setting of Diplomatic Communication International Journal of Communication 21.2, pages 5-26, http://www.academia.edu/attachments/20622555/download_file WORK IN PROGRESS Follow-ups in structured communication Chapter for an edited volume Follow-ups in political discourse, ed. by Elda Weizman and Anita Fetzer, Benjamins DAPSAC series, publication planned for autumn 2014 What is Treaty Monitoring? Answers from Discourse Analysis Research article in preparation for submission How Active Learning Methods Influence the Level of Teacher Control and Motivation in University Classroom Research article finalized for submission CONFERENCES (recent venues) 2013 How Active Learning Methods Influence the Level of Teacher Control and Motivation in University Classroom European Conference on Education, Brighton, UK, July 11-14 Simulation Role-Plays as a Motivation Tool 5 th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona, Spain, July 1-3 2012 Discursive Strategies in Diplomatic Communication IPSA, Madrid, July 8-12 Follow-ups in Diplomatic Negotiation ESF Workshop, University of Würzburg, May 30-June 2 Pragmatics of Diplomatic Communication 6th Łodz Symposium on New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics, University of Łodz, 26-28 May The Revocation of Minority-Protection Rules in New EU Member States Europeanization after EU Accession conference, European Institute, Nice, 23-24 March, with Lilla Balázs and Guido Schwellnus 2011 Independence or Cooperation? Strategic Dimension of Negotiations within the Monitoring Mechanism of International Conventions 3 rd Global International Studies Conference, University of Porto, 17-20 August Face-Threat Sensitivity and Strategic Discourse within the Monitoring Mechanism of International Conventions Cross-Cultural Pragmatics Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 29 June - 1 July Page 5
Dialogic Analysis of Discourse Dynamics: a Methodological Framework Meaning and Text Conference, University of West England, Bristol, 13-15 April Implementation and Sustainability of National Minority Protection Rules in Education and Language Use Workshop From Norm Adoption to Norm Implementation, European Center for Minority Issues, Flensburg, 12 March, with Lilla Balázs and Guido Schwellnus 2010 New Convention New Genre? Monitoring Mechanism of International Conventions Conference of the European Society for the Study of English, University of Turin, 25-27 August Non-Compliant Yet Compliant: The Case of National Minority Rights in The Process of EU Enlargement 5 th Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference, Grenoble Institute of Political Studies, 23-25 June, with Lilla Balázs INTERESTS AND HOBBIES Squash, Nordic walking, Painting on glass, Science fiction, Spanish REFERENCES Reference contacts will be communicated upon inquiry. Updated on 16.04.2014 Page 6