Current position

Since April 2025: Head of the Field of Intercultural Studies and Visiting Professor of Intersectionality and Transnational Mobility, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU)

Academic Activities

April–July 2026: Research Residence at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld, Research Group Postcolonial and Postsocialist Interdependencies Across Borders

September 2022–March 2025: Research Associate and Member of the Coordination Team, DFG Research Unit 5183 Cross-Border Mobility and Institutional Dynamics, University of Siegen

July 2015–February 2025: Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Global Campus Europe

April 2014–September 2021: Research Associate and Lecturer for Special Tasks, Department of Social Sciences, University of Siegen

April 2010–January 2014: Research Associate, Chair of Urban Sociology, University of Kaiserslautern

Teaching Assignments, 2011–2025

Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria

Universidade da Coruña, Spain

Universitatea A. I. Cuza din Iași, Romania

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Centre for Studium Universale

Mainz University of Applied Sciences, Department of Architecture, focus on Housing

Academic Education

2025: Habilitation in Sociology and Venia Legendi in Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Siegen. Habilitation thesis: The Dynamics of Immigrant Agency – A Transnational Perspective on East-West European Migration

2009: PhD in Sociology, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine

2005: Master's degree in Sociology, Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University, Ukraine

2004: Bachelor's degree in Sociology, Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University, Ukraine

Research Stays (Abroad)

Central European University, Hungary (one week)

Universidade da Coruña, Spain (one week)

Universitatea A. I. Cuza din Iași, Romania (one week)

Technische Universität Dresden, Germany (10 months)

Lund University, Sweden (two weeks)

Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (10 months)

Fields of study

Migration research
Qualitative social research
Gender studies
Cultural sociology
Multilingualism
European studies
Inequality research

Selected Publications

Havlin, T. (2026). The Dynamics of Immigrant Agency. Identity Formation, Translanguaging and Purposeful Actions of Post-Soviet Migrants in West Germany. Palgrave Macmillan. Open access (view https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-95-4755-5)

Havlin, T. Pargen, L. & Schittenhelm, K. (Eds.) (2026) Special Issue: Reflexive Multilingual Approaches in Mobility, Migration, and Diversity Studies. In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 27(3), URL https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/87.

Havlin, T. Pargen, L. & Schittenhelm, K. (2026) Editorial: Reflexive Multilingual Approaches in Mobility, Migration, and Diversity Studies. In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 27(3), Art. 11: 1-24. https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.3.4820.

Havlin, T. (2026) Toward a Critical Multilingual Research Framework: De-naturalizing Language(s) through a Translanguaging Methodology.In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 27(3), Art. 12: 1-26.  https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-27.3.4778.

Havlin, T. zusammen mit Shcherbyna, M. (2026) Decolonized Gendered Subjects at War for Freedom and Self-Determination: Women in Combat in Real-Time and in Digitalized Memory. In: Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 27 (1): 25–50. (web)

Havlin, T. (2026) Earth and Re-Birth: On Ecocide and Sustainable Recovery Discourse in Ukraine in Karpenko, Kateryna; Hagengruber, Ruth Edith (eds): Women Philosophers and Scientists Against War and Ecocide. De Gruyter. (web)

Havlin, T. (2026) De-naturalizing Language Use in Migration and Diversity Research: A Critical Multilingual and Non-Language-Centered Approach. In Nataliia Sorokina, Lesya Skintey, Jasmin Peskoller (Eds.): Book of Abstracts. Developing Multilingualism and Fostering Reflective Skills, Intercultural and Transcultural Learning in Language Education. International Multilingual Conference. University of Innsbruck.

Schäfer, J., Havlin, T. & Maquire, K. (2026) Bericht - Situations- und Ressourcenanalyse „Demokratiegefährdung und Demokratieförderung“, PfD Dahme-Spreewald. Auftraggeber: Partnerschaften für Demokratie Dahme-Spreewald.

Havlin, T. zusammen mit M. Shcherbyna (2025). Intersectional Trap of (In)Visible Identities and Belongings. Between Engagement and Entrapment of Displaced Ukrainian Women Scientists. In: Gender Studies, (24)1: 23-51. DOI: 10.2478/genst-2025-0002 (view https://reference-global.com/article/10.2478/genst-2025-0002)

Havlin, Tetiana (2024) War-induced (Im)Mobilities and Immobilizing Effects in the Context of the Russo-Ukrainian War in The Mobilities Journal, Special Issue Vulnerable Mobilities Between Imperial Legacies and Coloniality of War edited by Amelina, Anna; Molitor, Verena; Vasilache, Andreas; Zimenkova, Tatiana; Schäfer, Jana. DOI 10.1080/17450101.2024.2445803

Havlin, Tetiana (2024) Entrepreneurial Networks of Russian-Speaking Germans across the Eurasian Space. In Anna Flack, Hans-Christian Petersen, Jannis Panagiotidis, Jan Musekamp (Hg.) Russian Germans on Four Continents: Histories of a Global Diaspora. Lexington Books, London: 199-220.

Havlin, Tetiana (2022) Multilingualism and Translanguaging in Migration Studies: Some Methodological Reflections, Journal Forum Qualitative Social Research Forum: Qualitative Social Research (23/1).

Havlin, T., Carosso A., Zehelein, E. (2019) Introduction: Family and the Media: Cultural Politics and Public Narratives in International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, 15/2.

Havlin, Tetiana (2019) Geschlechterrepräsentationen in der Alltagskultur Deutschlands: Zwischen Tradition und Gegenwart in Scientific Herald of Izmail State University of Humanities, 2019, N.43

Havlin, Tetiana (2022) Gesellschaft in Bewegung: Forschungsorientierte Lehre im Bereich Migrationssoziologie. Zentrum zur Förderung der Hochschullehre der Universität Siegen (Hg.) Forschen + Lernen. Wissenschaftliches Denken als Voraussetzung für problemlösungsorientiertes Handeln. Werkstattbericht: Hochschuldidaktik 6: 33-56.

Havlin, Tetiana; Carosso, Andrea; Zehelein, Eva (2019) Special Issue Family and the Media: Cultural Politics&Public Narrativesof The International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, 15/2.

Buchrezensionen (Auswahl)

Havlin, Tetiana (2022) The Women’s International Democratic Federation, the Global South and the Cold War. Defending the Rights of Women of the ‘Whole World’? by Yulia Gradskova (Abingdon & New York, NY: Routledge, 2020, 222p.) Book review. In: Europe-Asia Studies, 74/5.

Havlin, Tetiana (2022) Protestbewegungen im Langen Schatten des Kreml. Aufbruch und Resignation in Russland und der Ukraine. Edited by Zabirko, Oleksandr & Mischke, Jakob (Ibidem-Verlag, 2020, 280pp.) Book review. In: Europe-Asia Studies, 74/3.

Havlin, Tetiana (2021) Russian Women and the End of Soviet Socialism. Everyday Experiences of Economic Change by Judith McKinney (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, ix+285 pages). Book review. In: Europe-Asia Studies, 73/7.

Havlin, Tetiana (2020) A Mashup World: Hybrids, Cross-Overs and Post-Reality by Irina Perianova (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, 319pp.). Book review. In: Europe-Asia Studies 2020, 72/8.

Havlin, Tetiana (2019) Transnational Ukraine? Networks and Ties that Influence(d) Contemporary Ukraine. Edited by Timm Beichelt and Susann Worschech (Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2017, 264pp.) in Europe-Asia Studies 2019, 71/8.

Havlin, Tetiana (2019) Connecting Families? Information & Communication Technologies, Generations, and the Life Course. Edited by Barbara Barbosa Neves and Cláudia Casimiro (Policy, Bristol, UK, 2018, 324 p.) Book review in International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, 15/2.