About the Contributors
Editors
Oleksii Chebotarov
Oleksii Chebotarov is a Researcher of the Department of Conservation, Archaeology, and History at the University of Oslo and the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe at the University of St. Gallen. Previously, he worked as a research fellow and lecturer at the Central European University, the University of Vienna, the University of St. Gallen, New Europe College in Bucharest, the Center for Urban History in Lviv, and the Ukrainian Catholic University. He earned his Ph.D. in Social Studies from the University of St. Gallen in 2021. His primary research interests include migration and borderland studies, Jewish history, digital humanities and environmental history.
Viktoriya Sereda
Viktoriya Sereda is the Head Coordinator of the Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study (VUIAS) at the Institute for Advanced Studies Berlin and a Professor of Sociology at the Kyiv School of Economics. She is also a Senior Fellow leading the project “War, Migration and Memory” at the Forum Transregionale Studien. She has taught at the University of Basel, Central European University (Invisible University for Ukraine), Ukrainian Catholic University, and Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. Sereda was a research fellow at the Imre Kertész Kolleg and the Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University. Her research focuses on migration, memory, and identity in Ukraine.
Authors
Thomas Faist
Thomas Faist is a Professor of Transnational and Development Studies in the Department of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany. He earned his Habilitation in Political Science from the University of Bremen in 1999. His research focuses on international migration, immigrant integration, citizenship, and social policy. He has held visiting professorships at institutions including Brandeis University, Malmö University, and the University of Toronto. Faist is a member of various professional societies and has an extensive list of publications in the field of migration studies.
Vladyslava Moskalets
Vladyslava Moskalets is a researcher at the Center for Urban History of East-Central Europe in Lviv and an Associate Professor in the History Department at the Ukrainian Catholic University, where she coordinated the Jewish Studies Program. She received her PhD in History in 2017 from Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Moskalets has been a Fulbright Scholar at Northwestern University. Her research interests include Jewish studies, economic history, urban studies, the history of elites, the history of tourism, and the Yiddish language in Galicia.
Martin-Oleksandr Kisly
Martin-Oleksandr Kisly is Head of the Crimean Studies Center at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He serves as the Executive Director of RUTA – the Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation. He earned his Ph.D. in History from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in 2021. His research interests include the history of Crimea and the Crimean Tatars, with a particular focus on the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, as well as oral history, memory, trauma, identity, migration, and colonialism.
Oksana Mikheieva
Oksana Mikheieva is a Professor of Sociology at the Kyiv School of Economics. During her work at various academic institutions, including Donetsk State University of Management, Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv), and European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), as well as during research fellowships at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University (HURI), Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) and ZOiS/the Centre for East European and international Studies (2020-2023), she researched various aspects of migration processes related to war and forced displacement. She also focuses her research on aspects of paramilitary motivations, everyday life under conditions of war and occupation. Additionally, she serves on the editorial board of peer-reviewed journals “Ukraina Moderna”, “City: History, Culture, Society”, and “East” (“Skhid”).
Alina Mozolevska
Alina Mozolevska is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Philology at Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv, specializing in Romance Languages. Mozolevska has held research fellowships at institutions such as the UniGR-Center for Border Studies at Saarland University and the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (VUIAS fellow). Her research interests include media studies, border studies, critical discourse analysis, and text linguistics.
Lidia Kuzemska
Lidia Kuzemska is a sociologist with interdisciplinary interests in forced migration, internal displacement, borders, and citizenship. She received her PhD from Lancaster University in 2022, with a dissertation focusing on internally displaced persons in Ukraine. Kuzemska is a 2024-25 Prisma Ukraïna fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien and serves as the academic coordinator of the research group “War, Migration, Memory.” Kuzemska’s research interests primarily focus on the following areas: forced migration, internal displacement, borders and border studies, citizenship, war and memory.
