Anna Novikov received her doctoral degree in History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2013. During her PhD studies she was a Junior Visiting and Research Fellow at Oxford University and the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture in Leipzig. She has been awarded the Rothenstreich Fellowship for Outstanding Doctoral Students (2010-2012), the Cantemir Fellowship in Oxford (2011) and the Israeli Inter-University Academic Partnership in Russian and East European Studies Fellowship (2013).
From 2013-2015 she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute, Warsaw. Her book Shades of a Nation: The Dynamics of Belonging among the Silesian and Jewish Populations in Eastern Upper Silesia (1922-1934) was published in 2015. She was also a co-editor of an additional monograph titled From Premodern to Postmodern Central Europe. Upper Silesia in the Age of Nationalisms that was published in 2016 and that she edited together with James Bjork, Tomasz Kamusella, and Timothy Wilson. During the summer term of 2016 she was a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Principles of Cultural Dynamics program at the Dahlem Humanities Center, Freie Universität Berlin. Currently she is a Research Fellow at the Cologne-Bonn Centre for Central and Eastern Europe at Cologne University. Here she is working on her project “Between Kapota and Siurtuk: The Dynamics of East-Central European Jewish Clothing” that is dedicated to the transnational history of Jewish dress in this region. Her research interests range widely from the political and social, modern and contemporary transnational history of East-Central European and Eurasian population groups to their cultural, material and urban history. The core foci of her research are various aspects of cultural history through the prism of communication through language, movement and clothing appearance, as well as dynamics of identity.
