Ulla Pape

Ulla Pape

Dr.

Curriculum vitae

Academic career

Since 2025
Postdoctoral Researcher at TH Nürnberg (SOLID project)

2023 – 2024 
Chair Representation of the Professorship for Comparative Politics, University of Greifswald

2022 – 2023  
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (SOLID project)

2018 – 2022  
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin

2016 – 2018  
Lecturer at the Institute for Institute of European Studies at the University of Bremen

2014 – 2016  
Postdoctoral Researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen

2014 – 2016  
Research Fellow at the Laboratory for Nonprofit Sector Studies at Higher School of Economics in Moscow

2012 – 2014  
Scientific staff member at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict at Ruhr University Bochum

2010 – 2012  
Scientific staff member at the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen

2006 – 2010  
Doctoral Researcher at the Department of International Relations and International Organisation at the University of Groningen

 

Education

02/2022          
Habilitation in Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin
Habilitation thesis: Nonprofits, Business, and the State. Studies on Governance in Democratic and Non-Democratic Regimes

03/2012          
PhD at the University of Groningen 
PhD thesis: Civil Society and the Politics of HIV/AIDS in Russia

08/2005          
MA Humanitarian Action, University of Groningen

06/2002          
MA in Slavonic Languages, Eastern European History, Political Science, University of Münster

Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Pape, Ulla; Klimovich, Stanislav & Katharina Bluhm (2023). Formal contracting and state-business relations in Russia: a case study from Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, East European Politics, 39(1), 57-79, https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2022.2155948

Kropp, Sabine; Klimovich, Stanislav & Ulla Pape (2023). Legitimation strategies of Russian companies: a bricolage of social responsibility, East European Politics, 39(1), 15-38, https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2022.2134122.

Klimovich, Stanislav; Kropp, Sabine & Ulla Pape (2023). Defending business interests in Russia: collective action and social investments as bargaining chip, Post-Communist Economies, 35(1), 17-40, https://doi.org/10.1080/14631377.2022.2104505.

Pape, Ulla & Yulia Skokova (2022). Nonprofit advocacy in Russia’s regions, Journal of Civil Society, 18(1), 2022, 1-22, https://doi.org/10.1080/17448689.2022.2061545.

Francesca, Petrella; Simsa, Ruth; Pape, Ulla; Pahl, Joachim Benedikt; Brandsen, Taco; Richez-Battesti, Nadine & Annette Zimmer (2022). Dealing with paradoxes, manufacturing governance: organizational change in European third sector organizations, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 51(2),237–259, https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640211005849.

Toepler, Stefan; Pape, Ulla & Vladimir Benevolenski (2020). Subnational variations in government-nonprofit relations: a comparative analysis of regional differences within Russia, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 22, 47-65, https://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2019.1584446.

Pape, Ulla; Brandsen, Taco; Pahl, Joachim Benedikt et al. (2020). Changing policy environments in Europe and the resilience of the third sector, Voluntas, 31, 238-249, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-018-00087-z.

Pape, Ulla (2019). HIV/AIDS politics and policy in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, in: William R. Thompson (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1314.

Pape, Ulla (2018). Framing the epidemic: NGOs and the fight against HIV/AIDS in Russia, Russian Politics, 3, 486-512. https://doi.org/10.1163/2451-8921-00304003.

Skokova, Yulia; Pape, Ulla and Irina Krasnopolskaya (2018). The nonprofit sector in today’s Russia: between confrontation and co-optation, Europe-Asia Studies, 70, 531-563, https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2018.1447089.

Pape, Ulla and Anastassia Smirnova (2018). Transforming the public sphere: the case of Moscow’s city libraries, Cultural Studies, 32, 772-799, https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2018.1428648.

Pape, Ulla; Chaves Ávila, Rafael; Pahl, Joachim Benedikt; Petrella, Francesca; Pieliński, Bartosz and Teresa Savall-Morera (2016). Working under pressure: economic recession and third sector development in Europe”, International Journal for Sociology and Social Policy, 36, 547-566, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-01-2016-0010

Brandsen, Taco and Ulla Pape (2015). The Netherlands: the paradox of government-nonprofit partnerships, Voluntas, 26, 2267-2282, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-015-9646-3.

Krasnopolskaya, Irina; Skokova, Yulia and Ulla Pape (2015). Government-nonprofit relations in Russia’s regions: an exploratory analysis”, Voluntas,26, 2238-2266, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-015-9654-3.

Pape, Ulla (2010). Rol’ nepravitel’stvennych organizatsii v protivodeistvii VICh/SPIDu v Rossii: politicheskie vozmozhnosti i organizatsionnye strategii, Zhurnal issledovanii sotsial’noi politiki, 8(2), 203-226, https://jsps.hse.ru/article/view/3558.