Karolina Koziura

Karolina Koziura is a cultural and historical sociologist who studies the legacies of violence, identity formation processes, and politics of knowledge in/about Eastern Europe. For more than 15 years, she has conducted ethnographic and historical research in Ukraine and Poland. Karolina received her PhD in sociology and historical studies from the New School for Social Research, New York, in 2023. She was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (2023-2025), where she worked on problems of environmental forms of violence, historical injustices, and European politics of memory. Karolina’s research was published in, among other places, Memory Studies, East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, European Journal of Sociology, and East European Politics, Societies, and Culture. She has been a visiting fellow at, among other places, Konstanz University, IWM in Vienna, and the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Currently, she is finishing her first monograph on the politics of hunger and transnational political contests surrounding the Great Ukrainian Famine (1932-2022). As a Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellow, she will develop her second book project on the transnational and multidirectional politics of recognition surrounding the Communist-era violence.

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