Maria Mayerchyk

Maria Mayerchyk (Ukrainian: Маєрчик Марія Степанівна, born 15 October 1971[1]) is a Ukrainian feminist academic and the editor-in-chief of Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies.

She is noted for her analysis of feminism at the Euromaidan protests.

Education

Mayerchyk attended the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, from 1988 to 1993, from where she has a degree in journalism.[1]

She has a PhD from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine that focused on ethnology.[2]

Career

Mayerchyk has been a fellow in research programs at the University of Greifswald (Germany), University of Alberta (Canada), Harvard University (USA), the University of South Florida (USA), Lund University (Sweden), Central European University (Hungary), and the Centre for Advanced Studies Sofia (Bulgaria).[2][3]

She is a senior research scholar at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine's Institute of Ethnology in Lviv.[4] Her academic interests include diaspora, feminism, folklore, sexuality, queer studies, and decolonial epistemologies of the European periphery.[4][5]

Mayerchyk is the editor-in-chief of Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies.[4]

She was the academic director of the OSI-HESP ReSET project "Gender, Sexuality, and Power" (2011–2014).[6]

Publications

See also

Relevant topics

Ukrainian feminist scholars

References

  1. ^ a b "Research Center "Borderland Society: Past and Present"". 2017-01-10. Archived from the original on 10 January 2017. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
  2. ^ a b Маєрчик, Марія (29 August 2019). "Критика феміністична. Східноєвропейський журнал феміністичних та квір-студій". Соціальна Антропологія (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2022-04-18.
  3. ^ "Mariya Mayerchyk Mayerchyk". huri.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
  4. ^ a b c "Maria Mayerchyk and Olga Plakhotnik | Ukrainian Feminisms and the Issue of Coloniality". www.ualberta.ca. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
  5. ^ Kyiv, The School of. "The School of Kyiv | Kyiv Biennial 2015". The School of Kyiv. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
  6. ^ "Resource Faculty |Gender, Sexuality, and Power". 2017-01-10. Archived from the original on 2017-01-10. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
  7. ^ a b Nikolayenko, Olena; DeCasper, Maria (25 October 2018). "Why Women Protest: Insights from Ukraine's EuroMaidan". Slavic Review. 77 (3): 726–751. doi:10.1017/slr.2018.207. ISSN 0037-6779.
  8. ^ Sperling, V. (2015). Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. p.239 & 242
  9. ^ Скрипник Ірина. РЕЦЕНЗІЯ НА МОНОГРАФІЮ Марія Маєрчик. Ритуал і тіло. Структурно-семантичний аналіз українських обрядів родинного циклу: Монографі. – К.: Критика, 2011. – 327 с. / Review of the monography by Maria Mayerchyk. Ritual and Body. The structural-semantic analysis of the Ukrainian familial-cycle rites / Maria Mayerchyk. – Kyiv: Krytyka, 2011. – 327 p. Aktualʹnì Pitannâ Suspìlʹnih Nauk ta Istorìï Medicini . 2014;(4(4)):117-118. Accessed April 18, 2022. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsdoj&AN=edsdoj.740417a4e0a04cd3bbd566b90a2a8037&site=eds-live&scope=site
  10. ^ New Imaginaries: Youthful Reinvention of Ukraine's Cultural Paradigm. (2015). United Kingdom: Berghahn Books. p81