Maria

Maria Mayerchyk

Maria Mayerchyk has double affiliation of a Senior Research Associate at the Ethnology Institute of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Greifswald. She holds the Candidate of Sciences degree in History with a specialization in Ethnology. Maria taught courses on gender, queer and feminist studies and Slavic culture and folklore in Canada and Ukraine and was a recipient of fellowships at Harvard University, Lund University, University of Alberta, University of South Florida, and others. Her research interests include critical folklore studies, diaspora studies, East European studies, ethnography, queer and feminist epistemologies, and decolonial option.