Ukrainian feminist academicMaria Mayerchyk (Ukrainian: Маєрчик Марія Степанівна, born 15 October 1971) 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.
She has a PhD from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine that focused on ethnology.
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).
She is a senior research scholar at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine's Institute of Ethnology in Lviv. Her academic interests include diaspora, feminism, folklore, sexuality, queer studies, and decolonial epistemologies of the European periphery.
Mayerchyk is the editor-in-chief of "Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies."
She was the academic director of the OSI-HESP ReSET project "Gender, Sexuality, and Power" (2011–2014).
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