Christian Fröhlich

Christian Fröhlich is an Assistant Professor at the School of Sociology of the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. He was invited by Françoise Daucé (CERCEC) and holds a Doctorate in Sociology from the University of Leipzig (Germany) with prior research experience at Södertörn University (Sweden). His work focuses on civil society development among marginalized groups, civic activism, and urban protest dynamics in post-Soviet contexts.

Research interests include spatial contestation, liminality, infrapolitics, and institutional frameworks shaping Russian civil society. Recent publications appear in East European Politics, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, and The Sociological Quarterly. He co-edited a volume on Radical Left Movements in Europe.

Recent lectures/seminars (2019) addressed urban activism under post-Soviet conditions, authoritarian state-NGO relations, and collective identity formation in Russian civil society. His work critically examines state-society interactions in authoritarian contexts.