About
Sabine Dullin is a Professor of History at Sciences Po Paris and a leading historian of modern Russia and the USSR. As head of the History Department since 2017, she specializes in:
- Political History of the Soviet State
- Transnational Dimensions of communism
- Decolonization in Soviet and Russian contexts
- Climate Change intersections with historical sovereignty
- Baltic and Eastern European historical relations
Her interdisciplinary research explores sovereignty transitions in the Soviet-Russain empire, focusing on substate actors' autonomy during imperial collapse. Current projects examine survival and sovereignty in Yakutia-Sakha, analyzing permafrost melting's historical implications. She co-edits the bilingual journal Monde(s). Histoire, espaces, relations and leads a Columbia World Projects working group on barriers and borders.
Key supervision projects include:
- Rasmi BINOY - Cold War-era Kerala book culture
- Alexandra KOROLEVA - Soviet academic periphery
- Isabelle LINAIS - Postwar Central Asian hajj practices
- Yuqing QIU - Mao's Famine information networks
Her recent publications analyze Soviet military structure, border dynamics, and revolutionary transnationalism, with a focus on Asian contexts. She contributes to historical methodology through archival analysis and material culture studies.
