Dr. Mark E. Simon
Mark Simon is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology.
His research projects are focused on the issues of , political accommodation of diversity and artistic self-expressions of migrants in European and post-Soviet contexts. In 2018-2019, he conducted a on theatrical productions in Berlin and Moscow featuring artists with migration experience. In 2019-2022, he led a dedicated to cultural activism of migrants from Central Asia in four large Russian cities.
Under his research fellowship at the Institute, he is exploring the political expressions of artists in exile who reside in Germany.
- Simon, Mark, and Varvara Sklez. 2023. (chapter). In: Meerzon, Y., Wilmer, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Migration. Palgrave Macmillan: 339-351.
- Simon, Mark, Nadezhda Kokoeva, and Yury Slinko. 2023. . Dialectical Anthropology 47 (1): 109–121.
- Simon, Mark. . ZOiS Spotlight 18/2021, May 12.
- Simon, Mark. 2020. . The Journal of Social Policy Studies 18 (4): 737–750.
- Simon, Mark. 2020. . Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research 12 (1): 15–47.
- Malakhov, Vladimir, and Mark Simon. 2018. . International Migration 56 (3): 61-72.
- Malakhov, Vladimir, and Mark Simon. 2017. (chapter) in Russia – Strategy, Policy and Administration, ed. by Irvin Studin, London: Palgrave: 257-268.