Hanna Stähle

Hanna Stähle, born and raised in Belarus, holds a PhD in Slavic Cultural Studies (summa cum laude) from the University of Passau, Germany, in 2018. After graduating from Minsk State Linguistic University with a degree in German language and literature in 2008, she obtained a Master’s degree in Russian and East-Central European Studies from the University of Passau in 2011. During her PhD Studies, she was a Research Fellow at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and a visiting research fellow at the Russian Media Lab at the Aleksanteri Institute in Helsinki. Her articles appeared in Digital Icons, Zeitschrift für slavische Philologie, and Religion, State and Society. Her book Russian Church in the Digital Era: Mediatization of Orthodoxy came out with Routledge ‘Media, Religion and Culture’ Series in 2021.