September 2024: Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
June-July 2024: The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life residency and artistic intervention, tranzit, Bucharest, Romania
March 2024-July 2024:
Visiting Fellow, New
Europe College, Bucharest, Romania
2023 Mary Zirin Prize, Association for Women in Slavic Studies
“The committee was particularly impressed by the elegance of her prose, and by her careful, thoughtful autoethnography, rigorously
grounded in the scholarly literature yet at the same time a poignant
narrative of a scholar’s introspection and vulnerability in times
of war.“
October 2023-March 2024:“Inclusion,
Participation and Engagement” Early Career Fellowship, School of Advanced
Study, University of London
summer 2023: Documenting Ukraine grant, IWM (Institute for Human Sciences)
March 2023: Bodies as Lands—Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Spatial Arrangements in Eastern Europe, curated by Asia Bazdyrieva and Egija Inzule, Nida Art Colony, Lithuania
October 2022-June 2023: Max Hayward Visiting
Fellowship, Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, St Antony’s College,
University of Oxford, UK
Ukraine: Resisting Cultural Erasure seminar series
August-September 2022: Visiting Fellow at IWM (Institute
for Human Sciences), Vienna, Austria
October 2018 – December 2021 PhD,thesis title:“Multispecies Ruptures: Stories of Displacement and Human-Plant Relations
from Donbas, Ukraine” (School
of International Relations and School of Modern Languages, the University of St
Andrews, Scotland, UK. Prinicipal’s Medal
funding:
The Douglas and Bonnyman PhD Scholarship; the School of Modern Languages Postgraduate Research Scholarship
2019 Public Engagement Newcomer Award (University
of St Andrews)
2019 Highly Commended for the Public Engagement
Innovation Award (University of St Andrews)
summer 2019: Donbas Studies Summer School: The Plant Gave Us Everything,co-curated with Dmytro Chepurnyi
Erasmus Mundus Master’s Crossways in Cultural Narratives,
2015-2017, distinction
(Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy, University of St Andrews, United
Kingdom, L’Université de Perpignan via Domitia, France)
funding:
European Commission MA scholarship
October 2017: Centre for Urban History residency, Lviv, Ukraine
2009-2013: Studio Art; Modern Languages BA, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, magna cum laude
funding:
Davis UWC Scholars Program scholarship, Kenyond Financial Aid
2007-2009: United World College of the Adriatic (UWCAD), Duino, Italy
funding:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy scholarship