PhD Student
paul.dza@ulb.be
Adresse courrier :
ULB - Campus du Solbosch
Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 50 - CP 124
1050 Bruxelles
Bio
I hold a Master’s degree in geopolitics, specialising in ‘post-Soviet area’ and cyberspace, and I am currently a PhD candidate under the supervision of Aude Merlin.
CV
- Since 2025: PhD in Political Science at the ULB.
- 2022–2025: Master’s degree in Geopolitics, the Post-Soviet Space and Cyberspace. French Institute of Geopolitics, University of Paris 8, France.
- 2025: University exchange programme in International Relations, Maqsut Narikbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan.
Areas of research
- Visual research
- Study of armed conflicts
- Understanding ideological dynamics
- Discourse analysis
- Research
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My research focuses on the mechanisms of ideological transmission within the Russian army. As part of my PhD thesis, I am concentrating on graffiti created by Russian soldiers in Ukraine since 2022. I am a research associate on the Wall Evidence project (Kyiv, Ukraine): https://wallevidence.mizhvukhamy.com/
- Publications
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Dza, Paul, ‘1941-1945 Z: Russian Soldiers’ Graffiti in Occupied Ukraine’, The Weaponisation of History: Visual Manifestations of Power and Resistance in Contemporary Russia, Routledge, Research in Art History, London, 2027.