UN Volunteer · Rescue Mission for Street Life
Remote outreach and fundraising from Berlin with a Germany-wide volunteer team supporting the partner programme in Kampala.
Personal Papers & Scholarly Work
Berlin Repository · MMXXVI
Finding Aid
Fonds AT · Portrait Accession
Historian · Berlin
Aigerim Topoeva
Айгерим Топоева
Historian and Global History M.A. candidate researching Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and post-imperial memory.
- Berlin
- Research & programme support
- Up to 20 hours per week
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Writing
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A divided island, a divided people. When in the modern world we talk about Ireland, do we mean Dublin, as well as the so-called Northern Ireland? And what if the fact that the island remains split between two states, two identities and two political traditions is the legacy of one of the world’s biggest empires?
Traces the road from the Plantation system and Penal Laws through the Ulster Crisis, Easter 1916, and the 1920 Government of Ireland Act. Sets the partition of Ireland alongside India to argue that imperial partition followed a recognisable pattern.
ChaptersCreating Division · The Road to Partition 1801–1921 · The Divided Irish · Comparative Perspective: India
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The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 gave the world fifteen newly independent states, each of which claimed sovereignty on the basis of national identity. But where did these nations come from? To a significant extent, they were created by the very state whose collapse they celebrated.
Argues that statehood on the imperial periphery was neither top-down nor spontaneous, but a negotiation between imperial authorities and local intellectuals, shaped by tsarist categories that the early Soviet state then inherited and reworked.
ChaptersTwo Peripheries · Revolution and Its Consequences, 1917–1924 · Nationhood, late 1920s–1930s
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When sixteen young Germans were asked to sort forty-seven statements about peace, four distinct positions emerged: Egalitarian Humanists, Idealistic Pacifists, Domestic Realists, and Pragmatic Globalists. Each held a different relationship to past, present, and future.
A Q-methodology study presented at the Berlin University Alliance Conference. Q-methodology is a mixed-methods technique for surfacing the structure of subjectivity, useful when the question is not “what is true” but “what positions exist.”
SectionsMethodology · Q-Sort Process · Interviews · Temporal Dimensions · Theoretical Contribution
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Engagement
Model United Nations
Position papers, simulations, policy briefings. The mechanics of multilateral debate, ahead of the work toward international policy.
Student Researcher · Peace Perception Study
Designed and conducted Q-methodology research on how young Germans perceive peace across past, present, and future. Sixteen respondents, four factor positions, forty-seven statements. The poster lives in Writing, above.
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Experience
Tutor & Cultural Coordinator
Organising and leading weekly social and cultural events for international students. Coordinating the arrival and integration of new students into university life and the Berlin environment. Peer support on academic and everyday matters. Administrative work at the student rental office.
Volunteer · Bundesfreiwilligendienst
Daily operations in the patient admission department. Preparing patient documentation, creating admission records, assisting the clinical team, and communicating with patients in a working German-speaking environment.
Junior Staff Member · Kyrgyztest
Administered Russian-language testing sessions end to end: preparation of room and materials, ID verification, pre-test instructions, invigilation, and reporting. Developed and reviewed test items, aligning tasks with target proficiency levels and supporting quality control.
Volunteer Teacher · Secondary School
Taught history and social studies. Planned and delivered lessons across different learning levels, encouraging critical thinking and discussion of social questions.
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Education
M.A. Global History
Joint Master’s programme between FU and HU, focused on global and transregional approaches to historical research.
B.A. History
Foundational training in historical method, archival reading, and the history of Central Asia.
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Languages
Language profile · Kyrgyz and Russian native · English C1 · German B1
- Russian Native Native
- Kyrgyz Native Native
- English IELTS Academic 7.5 (R 9.0 · L 7.5 · S 7.0 · W 6.0) C1
- German Working level. Daily life, work, and study in Berlin B1
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Contact
Berlin, Germany. Reachable on tmpmdtaa@gmail.com. Curriculum vitae available on request.
Erreichbar in Berlin, auf Englisch, Deutsch, Russisch oder Kirgisisch.