Anna Kozlova
Ph.D. Candidate
| Degrees: | BA Honours (Carleton), MA (Brandenburg Technical University) |
| Email: | anna.kozlova@carleton.ca |
Current Program (including year of entry): Ph.D. History (2019)
Supervisor:
Academic Interests:
Migration; diaspora; cultural history; oral history; transnational history; food history; German history; Soviet history;
Select Publications and Current Projects:
Kozlova, Anna. 2023. “‘Canada Needs Us’: An Analysis of Transnational Russian-German Migration through the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program.” In Russian Germans on Four Continents: Histories of a Global Diaspora, edited by Anna Flack, Jan Musekamp, Jannis Panagiotidis, and Hans-Christian Petersen. Lanham: Lexington Books.
Kozlova, Anna. 2021. Review of Men under Fire: Motivation, Morale and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–1918 by Jiří Hutečka. Canadian Slavonic Papers. https://doi.org/10.1080/00085006.2021.1991625.
Kozlova, Anna. “The perpetual minority: A case study of Volga German migrants in Germany.” MA Thesis. Brandenburg University of Technology.
Kozlova, Anna and Panova, Evgeniya. 2015. “Dialogues in common space: A glimpse at the life in the Weiße Stadt.” In Spatial Guide: Modernist Housing Estates Berlin. Katrin Rheingans and Lukas Staudinger (Eds.). Brandenburg University of Technology.
Select Conference Contributions:
Kozlova, Anna. “‘It just feels home’: A narrative of a transnational Russian-German migration.” Paper presented at the German Studies Association. Montreal, Canada. October 6-8, 2023.
Kozlova, Anna. “Multiple Migrations in a Transnational World: Oral History Narratives of Post-Soviet German and Jewish Migrants in Canada.” Paper presented at the Association for the Study of Nationalities World Convention. Columbia University – New York, USA. May 18-20, 2023.
Panelist at the Graduate Student Panel at Addressing the Past – Shaping the Future: Memory politics in Europe and Canada. Paper presented at the University of Victoria – Victoria, Canada. October 21-23, 2022
Kozlova, Anna. “Unsettled lands: Terra nullius and the Mennonites of Manitoba.” Paper presented at the Under the Landscape Symposium. Santorini and Therasia, Greece. June 26-29, 2022.
Kozlova, Anna. “The perpetual minority: A case study of Volga German migrants in Germany.” Paper presented at the Association for the Study of Nationalities World Convention. Columbia University, conference held virtually through Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic. May 5-8, 2021.
Kozlova, Anna. “Foreigners in their own homeland: The lives of Russian Germans in the Soviet Union.” Paper presented at the Graduate Student Conference on the Late Soviet Union, Harvard University, conference held virtually through Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic. April 30, 2021.
Kozlova, Anna. “Neither here nor there: National identity and belonging amongst Russian-German migrants.” Paper presented at the EURUS Graduate Research Conference, Carleton University, conference held virtually through Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic. March 24-25, 2021.
Kozlova, Anna. “Hyphenated identities in a transnational world: A comparative study between Russian-German migrants in Canada and Germany.” Paper presented at the IMISCOE PhD Summer School – Studying Integration and Social Cohesion: Theory, Practice, Method and Ethics of Conduct, Istanbul, Turkey, June 9-14, 2019.
Kozlova, Anna. “Reconstructing national identity through the Berliner Stadtschloss: A critical analysis of the Humboldt Forum Project.” Paper presented at the Communication Graduate Caucus Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, March 5-6, 2015.
Teaching Experience:
Instructor
HIST 4806 – Food History: Ritual, Tradition, and Culture, Fall 2022.
HIST 3907 – Transnational Migration and Identity, Winter 2022.
Teaching Assistant
HIST 2501 – Early Modern Britain (D. Dean), Fall 2023.
HIST 2910 – Witches and Witchcraft in Early Modern Britain (D. Dean), Summer 2023.
HIST 2707 – History of Modern Africa (M. Owusu), Summer 2022.
EURR 2002 – Europe and Russia in the World (D. Sichinava), Fall 2021.
HIST 1002 – Europe in the 20th Century, (S. Eedy), Fall/Winter 2020.
HIST 2600 – History of Russia, (E. Fraser), Fall/Winter 2019.
Description of Research:
My doctoral research is focused on transnational post-Soviet German migrants who migrated to Manitoba under the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program between 1998 and 2012 after previously settling in Germany. It explores how migrants’ conceptions of belonging and feeling at home evolve through multiple migrations as well as notions of an ancestral homeland.
My current research is building on my master’s thesis research, which examined the sense of national identity and belonging amongst first-generation Volga German migrants in Germany. The data for my master’s thesis was gathered through oral history interviews with individuals of Volga German origin who came to Germany from the former Soviet Union when they were children.