At Södertörn University Christian Fröhlich is a research associate at the project “Anarchists in Eastern and Western Europe – a Comparative Study” since April 2012. The project is funded by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies and compares contemporary anarchist movements in five countries (Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Poland and Russia) and he is responsible for the Russian case study. Starting in the beginning of 2014, he will also participate in the project “Urban Social Movements in the Post-Soviet Context: Opportunity Structures and Local Activism in Moscow and Vilnius” (which is led by Kerstin Jacobsson and also funded by The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies), conducting the Moscow case study.
Christian Fröhlich studied Sociology and Studies of Culture at the University of Leipzig and completed a one-year study abroad exchange program at the State University St. Petersburg. After graduation he joined the Institute for the Study of Culture at the University of Leipzig as PhD student. Under the supervision of prof. Monika Wohlrab-Sahr he conducted research in Russia for his thesis on “The influence of international cooperation and domestic political culture on the development of Russian civil society (using the example of aid for people with disabilities)” and was a research fellow at the Institute for Sociology at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Contact: mail@christianfroehlich.net