Dr. Marina Kisling

Marina Kisling (Chuchko) explores the modern economic history of the Russian Empire and its successor states, with a particular focus on the interconnectedness of trade, power, and socio-economic development. Central to my work is investigating how trade and trade policies have shaped social and economic trajectories.

I also examine the historical development of energy transitions, particularly the oil industry’s emergence and expansion in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. I am increasingly extending this perspective to contemporary energy transitions, exploring their parallels with historical processes and their impact on resource-rich economies.

Marina Kisling (Chuchko) completed her PhD in economic history in 2019 at the University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M), graduating summa cum laude with a doctoral thesis on the political economy of Russian trade policy in the late 19th century. She was a Marie-Curie Early-Stage Researcher at UC3M, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vienna’s Department of Economic and Social History, and a recipient of the Marie-Curie Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship hosted by Bocconi University. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the ENFIN ERC project, where she studies the historical connection between energy transitions and economic and financial development. Her research has been published in leading economic history journals, including the Economic History Review and the European Review of Economic History.