Rolf Fredheim

Rolf Fredheim studied for his MPhil at St Antony’s College, Oxford, where his thesis explored the role Katyn played in contemporary Polish political discourse. As a PhD student in Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge he was a member of the Memory at War team. At present he is a Research Fellow working on the Conspiracy and Democracy Project at the University of Cambridge, CRASSH. His work focuses on digital approaches to post-Soviet memory as manifest in the Russian blogosphere and media. He has worked on developing a set of tools for quantifying and presenting trends in large datasets, focusing in particular on memory of the 1990s and events such as the August Putsch.