Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

Julie Fedor is Associate Professor in Modern European History at the University of Melbourne.

Yuliya Yurchuk is Associate Professor of History of Ideas at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. She specializes in memory studies, history of religion, and the study of nationalism in East European countries. She is the author of the book Reordering of Meaningful Worlds: Memory of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Post-Soviet Ukraine (Acta 2014) and one of the editors of Memory and Religion from a Postsecular Perspective (Routledge, 2022, co-edited with Zuzanna Bogumil). Together with Julie Fedor and Andreas Umland she was a co-editor of the series of special issues of Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society dedicated to the memory and history of the OUN and UPA. Currently she is working on two research projects: one in the field of the transnational intellectual women’s history (funded by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies) and another in the field of cultural heritage in the context of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war (funded by the Jean Monnet EU Program). Her interests continue to be memory, knowledge production, imperialism, decolonization, and securitization of the past.

Olha Voznyuk is a literary and cultural scholar, lecturer, and translator, specializing in Slavic and Comparative literature studies. Her research focuses on imagology, trauma and memory studies, identity, cinema, and women’s studies. She earned her first PhD in Comparative Literature from the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, with a dissertation devoted to the Polish–Ukrainian cooperation in exile after the WWII. Her second PhD in Slavic Studies from the University of Vienna investigated Habsburg Galician literature in Ukrainian, Polish, and German anthologies During her academic career she has been the recipient of numerous prestigious fellowships, including among them UNESCO and the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University. Currently she is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Slavonic Studies at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, where her ongoing research focuses on the transition of Ukrainian identity in the post-Maidan period.

Svitlana Kot is a visiting postdoctoral scholar at Saarland University and a member of the UniGR Center for Border Studies. She is also a senior lecturer at Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University (Ukraine). Her research focuses on Border Studies, (Native) American Literature, and Digital Cultural Studies. She holds a PhD in Philology (American Literature) and has been the recipient of several international fellowships, including the Volkswagen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022–2023) and the Philipp Schwartz Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2024–2026). Her current projects explore border reconfigurations, refugee writing and child migrant representations in graphic novels, and digital war documentation in Ukraine.

Alina Mozolevska is an associate professor in the Faculty of Philology at Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University (Ukraine). She has held research fellowships at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France, 2017) and the UniGR-Center for Border Studies at Saarland University (Germany, 2022). Mozolevska was also a visiting fellow of the VolkswagenStiftung at Saarland University (Germany, 2022–2023). She is a member of the Prisma Ukraïna research group “War, Migration, and Memory” (Forum Transregionale Studien, Germany, since 2022) and the HEPP Research Group (University of Helsinki, Finland, since 2022). Currently, she is an academic guest fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Germany, 2024–2025). Her research interests include media studies, discourse analysis, and border studies, and she has published extensively on topics related to borders and identity in both literary and political discourse.

Olha Polishchuk has a Ph.D. in Literary Theory (Ukraine, 2016). 2017 – 2019 she participated in the research “Writer-Intellectual in the Migration Processes: Challenges for Memory and Identity” (Ukraine). In 2019 she was the head of the scientific project “Memory Model in the Ukrainian Modern and Postmodern Literature” (A grant from the President of Ukraine). In 2022 – 2023 she researched the conceptualization of borders in literary discourses within the project “Borders in Crisis: Discursive, Narrative, and Mediatic Border Struggles in Ukraine, Europe, and North America” (Volkswagen Fond, Germany). Currently, she is a visiting researcher at Saarland University and is involved in the projects “Documenting Ukraine: Digital War Diaries”, “Border Chronotopes”, and others.

Yuliya Stodolinska is a postdoctoral research associate at the Chair of North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Saarland University, member of the UniGR-Center for Border Studies, and an associate professor of the English Philology and Translation Department at Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University in Ukraine. She holds a PhD in Philology. Her research focuses on the multimodal representations of borders and border crossings in American and European digital media, literary, and marketing discourses. Her scientific interests include Border Studies, Discourse Studies, Intercultural Business Communication, Cultural Studies. She is an active participant of the projects “Border Chronotopes in the Digital Age: Memories in Times of Wars” (DAAD Eastern Partnership Program), “Studybridge Ukraine-Saar” (DAAD Ukraine Digital: Ensuring Academic Success in Times of Crisis), and other international projects.

Ada Krasenko holds a B.A. in Sociology; she is Dean of Student Affairs at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine). Her research interests include gender and military sociology. Since 2022, she has been researching the gendered image of witchcraft, particularly during the Russo-Ukrainian war, and defended a Bachelor’s thesis on this topic.

Dr Tamara Martsenyuk is Associate Professor of Sociology at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. After her evacuation from Kyiv to Germany, she became also affiliated with the Free University of Berlin and Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Martsenyuk's research focuses on gender and social structure including, among others, women’s access to the military. She is a member of the International Sociological Association, Association for the Study of Nationalities, and other professional bodies. She authored, among others, chapters for the collected volumes Gender, Politics, and Society in Ukraine (University of Toronto Press 2012), New Imaginaries: Youthful Reinvention of Ukraine’s Cultural Paradigm (Berghahn 2015), and other books. Her papers have been published in the Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, Problems of Post-Communism, Sexuality & Culture and other periodicals.

Kateryna Dysa (PhD) is Associate Professor in the History Department of the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.” She has been a visiting fellow at Harvard, Stanford, Paris, and Oxford, as well as a visiting professor at the University of Basel. She is currently a scholar based at the Faculty of History and All Souls College who is carrying out research in Oxford through the British Academy. She is the author of Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials: Volhynia, Podolia, and Ruthenia, 17th and 18th centuries (Budapest, New York, 2020) and has written numerous articles on the history of witchcraft, sexuality, and medicine in early modern Ukraine. Currently, she is working on a project about the construction of the image of Kyiv in travel literature from the eighteenth through the early twentieth century.