Kateryna Burkush is a social historian of labour in the late Soviet Union. Her research focuses on the topics of work and migration in socialist context and the localized impacts of labor migration in the Ukrainian western borderlands across the successive political and economic regimes. After having received her doctoral degree from the European University Institute (Florence) in 2019, she held research fellowships at the New Europe College (Bucharest), the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna) and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. In 2022, she taught at the European School of Social and Political Sciences at the Université Catholique de Lille, France.