Current position

Since April 2025: Visiting Professor for Intercultural Studies at the University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg

Previous positions

September 2022 - March 2025: Research Associate and Coordinator, 5183 DFG Research Unit Cross-Border Mobility and Institutional Dynamics

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

April 2014 - September 2021: Lecturer for special tasks and Research Associate, Department of Social Sciences, University of Siegen

April 2010 - January 2014: Research Assistant, subject area Urban Sociology, University of Technology Kaiserslautern

Teaching assignments between 2011 - 2025

Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria

Universidade da Coruña, Spain

Universitatea A.I. Cuza din Iași, Romania

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Centre Studium Universale

Mainz University of Applied Sciences, Architecture: Housing

Scientific education

02/2024 - current Habilitation procedure, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Siegen. Habilitation title: 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. Metschnikov National University, Ukraine

2004: Bachelor's degreeSociology, Odesa I.I. Metschnikov National University, Ukraine

Fields of study

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

Publications

Journals

Havlin, Tetiana (2024) War-induced (Im)Mobilities and Immobilising 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 (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) Gender Representations in Everyday Culture in Germany: Between Tradition and the Present in Scientific Herald of Izmail State University of Humanities, 2019, N.43

Havlin, Tetiana (2015) Shift in Social Orders - Shift in Gender Roles? Migration Experience and Gender Roles in Current Issues in Personality Psychology, V. 3(3)

Havlin, Tetiana (2013) The Positioning Strategies of Immigrants: A Case Study of Female Immigrants to Germany from Former Soviet Countries in Sociology Study, 3/8, 606-615.

Havlin, Tetiana (2009) Gender in Sociology or Sociology in Gender Studies: Comparative Analysis of German and Ukrainian Gender Courses in Gender Studies, 2009 (19): 251-266.

Havlin, Tetiana (2008) Principles of Gender Equality in the EU and Ukrainian Context, in Ukrainian Society, (2/25): 113-122.

Havlin, Tetiana (2008) Implementation of Gender Equality in the EU and in Ukraine, in LvivUniversity Herald, 121-127.

Havlin, Tetiana (2008) Gender Aspects of Self-Representation and Expression of Personal Expectations: The Cross-Cultural Approach, in OdessaUniversity Herald, Vol. 13/5, 233-242.

Havlin, Tetiana (2008) The Self-realisation Components of Businesswomen in the Private and Public Spheres, in Kharkiv University Herald, 394-400.

Havlin, Tetiana (2008) The Social Image of Businesswomen: Results of the Survey, in Kiev University Herald.

Havlin, Tetiana (2007) The Social Portrait of the Modern Ukrainian Businesswoman: Sociological Perspective, in Odessa University Herald, 2007 (12/6): 666-673.

Havlin, Tetiana (2006) Representation of the Traditional Male and Female Images in the Socio-culture Space (Content analysis of Czech, Russian, and Ukrainian Proverbs), in Odessa University Herald (11/10): 155-163.

Havlin, Tetiana (2005) Gender Roles as a Symbolical System of Socio-cultural Development, in Sociological Observations (5): 111-119.

Contributions to edited volumes

Havlin, Tetiana (2025) Earth and Re-Birth: On Ecocide and Sustainable Recovery Discourse in Ukraine in Karpenko, Kateryna; Hagengruber, Ruth Edith (eds): Voices from Ukraine, Women Philosophers and Scientists Against War and Ecocide. De Gruyter(forthcoming)

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

Havlin, Tetiana (2022) Society on the move: Research-orientated teaching in the sociology of migration. Centre for the Promotion of University Teaching at the University of Siegen (ed.) Forschen + Lernen. Scientific thinking as a prerequisite for problem-solving orientated action. Workshop report: University didactics 6, 33-56.

Havlin, Tetiana; Aronson, Oleg (2015) Trust in Distrust: Myths and Values of the European Union in Ukraine, Bârgăoanu, A., Varela, D. (eds.) 2015. United by or Against Euroscepticism? Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 190-205.

Havlin, Tetiana (2012) Socio-cultural Changes of the Female and Male Representations in the German Proverbial and Anti-proverbial Contexts. In: Soares, R.J.B.; Lauhakangas, O. (eds.). Portugal, Tavira: AIP-IAP. 295-309.

Editorship

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

Book reviews

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) Protest Movements in the Long Shadow of the Kremlin. Awakening and Resignation in Russia and 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.

Havlin, Tetiana (2016) Riot, Unrest and Protest on the Global Stage. Edited by David Pritchard and Francis Pakes. Palgrave, 2014. 352 p. Book review in International Sociology Reviews, 2.

Havlin, Tetiana (2014) Talking Dirty on Sex and the City. Romance, Intimacy, Friendship by Oria, Beatriz. Rowman &Littelefield, Lanham 2014, 195 p. Book review in International Journal of Media & Cultura