Liubov Timonina

Liubov Timonina is a Research Associate at The Arctic Institute. She is one of the hosts of the Institute’s podcast series, The Arctic Institute Bookshelf Podcast. Previously, she has worked as one of the lead writers of The Arctic This Week’s Take Five, the Institute’s weekly news analysis publication, as well as contributed to the Political, Military and Search & Rescue sections of the Institute’s newsletter, The Arctic This Week (TATW). In 2018, she published an article ‘Conquered Modernity’: The Soviet Arctic Pavilion at the World’s Fair in 1939.

Liubov is now doing her PhD in History of Technology, Science and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Liubov’s research is primarily focused on visual history, spatial imaginations and representations of natural and built environments, as well as invasive infrastructures, landscape aesthetics, modernity and coloniality. Liubov is especially interested in Environmental Humanities and Ecophilosophy and advocates taking a critical, non-anthropocentric approach to studying northern circumpolar worlds and their histories.

In 2019, Liubov graduated from Erasmus Mundus M.A. in Global Studies with a joint degree from the University of Leipzig and Ghent University. In her thesis, she investigated visual narratives of Arctic infrastructures and lived spaces, frontier dynamics and reproduction of colonial imaginations in Arctic visual storytelling.

Liubov also holds a Specialist Degree in Modern and Contemporary History from Lomonosov Moscow State University, with a special focus on Northern Europe. She has previously done research on the Submarine Crisis between Sweden and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and the Maritime Security in the Baltics in general. In 2014, she was granted a scholarship from the Swedish Institute for conducting her research in the Swedish archives and libraries, followed by an exchange semester at the University of Stockholm and the courses on the International Relations and Swedish Maritime History.

In 2019, Liubov was one of the organizers of the Arctic Professionals Network Event in Brussels, and participated in the High North Dialogue Conference 2019 and the Research Workshop in Bodø, Norway, as well as at the Northern Political Economy Symposium in Rovaniemi, Finland.