Harald Wydra

St Catharine's College

Harald Wydra is a University Lecturer in Politics and a Director of Studies in Social and Political Sciences at St Catharine's. He holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence (1997). He is the author of Continuities in Poland's Permanent Transition (Macmillan, 2000) He is currently completing a book on Communism and the Emergence of Democracy. Beyond his focus on Eastern Europe and Russia, his general research interests include political anthropology, symbolic politics, politics of memory, and methodological approaches to the understanding of uncertainty in politics.