Сo-founder and President of UARWH, Doctor of Historical Sciences (habilitation equivalent; specialty: ethnology). She holds degrees in History (1992) and Psychology (1994) from Franko State University of Lviv. From 1994 to 2025, she worked at the Institute of Ethnology, NAS of Ukraine, where she rose from Junior Research Fellow to Head of the Department of Social Anthropology. She has been researching women’s and gender issues in Ukrainian history and historical ethnology since 1994.
Author of the monographs “Woman in Traditional Ukrainian Culture (Second Half of the 19th – Early 20th Century)” (Lviv, 2008; 2012) and “Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag” (Lviv, 2017; 2020). The latter was named one of the most important books of independent Ukraine by the Ukrainian Book Institute (2021) and has been translated into English and Italian.
Academic editor and co-editor of several collected and edited volumes, including “Ukrainian Women in the Crucible of Modernization” (Kharkiv: KSD, 2017), which won best history book at the Lviv Publishers’ Forum (2017).
From 2014 to 2020, she served as editor-in-chief of the academic platform “Ukraina Moderna”. Member of the editorial boards of the annual “Ukraina Moderna”, the journal “Ukrainoznavchyi Almanakh”, and the international women’s history annual “Aspasia”. Board member of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS, 2022–2026)
She has presented her research in numerous publications and at scholarly forums across Ukraine, the USA, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Sweden, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Austria, Poland, Georgia, Bulgaria, Japan, and Switzerland. She held Fulbright fellowships (2003, 2011) and a Shklar Fellowship (2007), conducting research at the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University; the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute; and the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. As a Petro Jacyk Educational Foundation fellow, she taught the course “Women in Post-Socialist Transformations in Ukraine, Russia, and Poland” at Columbia University (2010, 2012). She has also designed and taught courses at other North American universities: the University of Alberta (2013), The New School for Social Research (2022–2023), and the University of Richmond (2023–2024).
She has developed and taught original courses in oral history, gender studies, women’s history, and feminist anthropology at Franko University of Lviv, the Ukrainian Catholic University, and the Ukrainian Free University in Munich.
Research interests: the status of women in the traditional Ukrainian peasant family and community, women’s experiences of the Holodomor, national liberation movements and political imprisonment, everyday life of Ukrainian women in extraordinary historical circumstances, oral history, and gendered aspects of post-socialist transformations.