Franziska Davies is an Assistant Professor of Eastern and East-Central European History in the History Department at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Her research focuses on the modern history of Ukraine, Poland, and Russia. In 2023, she published the edited volume Ukraine in Europe: Dream and Trauma of a Nation. In 2022, together with Katja Makhotina, she published Eastern Europe’s Open Wounds: Travels to the Memorial Sites of the Second World War, which was awarded the Bavarian Book Prize in the non-fiction category.