elisabeth.miljkovic@sciencespo.fr
Adresse courrier :
ULB - Campus du Solbosch
Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 50 - CP 124
1050 Bruxelles
Adresse visiteur :
Bâtiment S, 11è étage - Bureau : S11.111
Avenue Jeanne, 44 - 1050 Bruxelles
Bio
Elisabeth Miljkovic is a PhD candidate at the Center for International Studies (CERI, Sciences Po/CNRS). Her research focuses on multiple belonging among descendants of migrants who came to France from the former Russian Empire in the early 20th century. Her initial work focuses on the Russian Orthodox Church, its plurality, its place in Russian society, and its relations with the political field.
After completing a research Master’s degree at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (2016), including a year as an exchange student at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, she obtained a Master’s degree in Public Affairs from Sciences Po Paris (2018). At this same institution, she began her doctoral thesis in 2019 on the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in contemporary Russian society. She reoriented her work after the large-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation in 2022.
Elisabeth is eager to engage with diverse scientific communities and actors. She has joined the University Consortium, which brings together Harvard, Oxford, Columbia Universities and Sciences Po, as a fellow. She also spent time at the European University Institute in Florence in October 2025 as a visiting researcher, and will be joining the Université Libre de Bruxelles temporarily for a research stay in March 2026.
She was awarded the 2023 Young Researcher Award by the Treilles Foundation.
Areas of research
- Nationalism, religion and identities
- Migration, diaspora, boundaries
- Socialisation, political legacy, collective memory construction
- Teaching
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Teaching assistant to Juliette Galonnier for her course “Religion, Politics and Society”, Sciences Po, Paris, 2023-2024, in English
Introduction to Political Science, Sciences Po, Paris, 2020-2021, Sciences Po, Paris, 2020-2021, in French
Methodological seminar for Master’s students writing their Master thesis in History and Social, Sciences, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco), Paris, 2019-2021, in French
French as a foreign language, Independent University of Moscow, Russia, 2015-2016, in Russian
- Research
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Elisabeth’s research focuses on multiple national belonging, the conditions under which it is transmitted, and its influence on political attitudes, in particular in the context of war. She is particularly interested in the links between religious and national belonging, and social distinction.
She also has a keen interest in the methodological and epistemological issues involved in research. She is organising a two-day seminar entitled “Thinking about vernacular comparitivism : comparison beyong scientific reasoning” on March 25 and 26, 2026 at the ULB.
- Publications
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Miljkovic, Elisabeth. « Repenser l’étude de la place de l’Église orthodoxe dans les sociétés postcommunistes ». Critique internationale, 2021/1 N° 90, 2021. p.175-183.
Camille Abescat, Pablo Barnier-Khawam, Alix Chaplain, Léonard Colomba-Petteng, Claire Duboscq, Ronan Jacquin, Elisabeth Miljkovic, Sophie Russo, Jusmeet S. Sihra et Anaëlle Vergonjeanne. « Terrains « sans contact » : l’enquête qualitative en sciences sociales pendant la pandémie ». Tracés. Revue de Sciences humaines, 42, 2022, p.75-93.
Miljkovic, Elisabeth. « Colas (Dominique) – Poutine, l’Ukraine et les statues de Lénine. – Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2023. 174 p. Bibliogr. Tableaux. Illustrations. ». Revue française de science politique, 2023/6 Vol. 73, 2023. p.944-945.
Chapitre dans le Routledge Handbook on Religion and Populism, soumis.