Dr Claudia Eggart is a social anthropologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester and fellowships at COMPAS (Oxford), the Centre for the History of Emotions (Tampere), New Europe College (Bucharest), and the University of Fribourg.

Her research traces how everyday economies, infrastructure, and emotion intersect in lived experiences of geopolitics—from border and customs regimes to market mobilities and logistical life. Grounded in ethnography, oral history, and discourse analysis, she engages themes such as post-socialist transformation, crisis, and the social life of infrastructure to examine how shifting global orders are negotiated and engaged by mobile actors, such as cross-border traders or truck drivers. During the fellowship she will work on the final chapter of her book in which she examines the impact of Russia's war in Ukraine on market traders at the two largest container-built retail hubs worldwide: the 7Km Market in Odesa and the Dordoi Bazaar in Bishkek.