
Bio
Viktoriya Sereda is a sociologist, Head Coordinator of the Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Studies at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and Senior Advisor of the project “Prisma Ukraïna: War, Migration and Memory” of the Forum Transregionale Studien.
Since 2020, she has also been a senior research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and a professor in the department of Sociology at the Ukrainian Catholic University. In the spring semester of 2021, she was a visiting lecturer at the University of Basel. From 2011 to 2017, she was the head of the sociological team for the project “Region, Nation and Beyond: An Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Reconceptualization of Ukraine”, organized by the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. In 2016/17 and 2019/20 she was the MAPA Research Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, where she developed a digital atlas of social changes in Ukraine after the Euromaidan.
Main areas of research:
- • nationalism, migration and identity studies
- • memory studies
- • civil society
- • urban sociology
Key publications
- Sereda, Viktoriya, Displacement in War-Torn Ukraine: State, Displacement and Belonging). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/displacement-in-wartorn-ukraine/51334B9D7E94319680D3AA5735D4ACF0
- Sereda, V., & Mikheieva, O. (2025). How (Not) to Study a War-Af ected Society: Challenges of Knowledge Production in Ukraine and Elsewhere. Nationalities Papers, 1-20.
- Bohdan, Olena and Sereda, Viktoriya. 2024. National minorities in Ukraine: contextualizing challenges and searching for policy solutions. In: “Ukraine’s Minorities at War: Cultural Identity and Resilience” eds. Elmira Muratova and Nadia Zasanska. 23-55, London: Routledge.
https://www.routledge.com/Minorities-at-War-Cultural-Identity-and-Resilience-in-Ukraine - Sereda, V., Homanyuk, M. 2024. “Consequences of War-Induced Displacement and the Shifting Cartography of Belonging of Ukraine’s Ahiska (Meskhetian) Turks, Crimean Tatars, and Roma since 2014“. European Yearbook of Minority Issues, Volume 21 (2022). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. 99-127. https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/70377
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VUIAS Opening
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