Inna Ganschow, PhD

Research Scientist
Center for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg

Visiting Fellowship 2025/26 (January 4, 2026 – February 1, 2026)

Inna Ganschow is a scholar with strong expertise in the history of migration, media, and literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, with a geographical focus on Russia, Ukraine, and Luxembourg. She also has interdisciplinary interests in digital methods in oral history, the language heritage of minorities, and writing techniques in captivity. Ganschow has over 10 years of experience in university teaching. Ganschow is currently responsible for the digital infrastructure and data modeling of the oral history project U-CORE, which is dedicated to collecting, preserving, analyzing, and disclosing war testimonies from Ukraine. Ganschow is a co-founder of the Luxembourg Ukrainian Researcher Network (LURN), which was created in 2022. In May 2025, LURN participated in organizing the visit of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko to Luxembourg. In parallel to her academic career, Ganschow has also maintained a career in journalism, working as a freelancer for ZDF Television in Germany, primarily covering historical documentaries, conducting archival research and interviewing historical witnesses, including former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (2005) and Naina Yeltsina, the widow of Russian President Boris Yeltsin (2016)

Statement of interest

During my stay in Ljubljana, I would like to complete a paper on the digital workflow of oral history projects in ongoing crisis contexts. I also consider working on data modelling and the database for my other migration-related project on forced laborers from Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus in Luxembourg during WWII.
For both projects, I am looking forward to fostering long-term institutional cooperation and benefiting from the input of your team.

Selected publications

Ganschow has published several books, including her PhD thesis in 2013 on postmodern Russian literature, a monograph on multicultural migration from Russia titled 100 Years of Russians in Luxembourg: History of an Atomized Diaspora in 2020 and a monograph on forced laborers from the Soviet Union titled Nobody cried, there were no tears left: Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian forced labourers in Luxembourg during the Second World War in transnational view in 2025, where she was the Principal Investigator (PI) of the projects