Oksana Mikheieva

Oksana Mikheieva is a historian and sociologist. She is currently a DAAD professor at the European University Viadrina, (Frankfurt (Oder), Germany). She is also a professor of sociology at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv, Ukraine). In the spring semesters of 2020 and 2022 she was a visiting lecturer at the Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland). In 2016 she was a visiting professor in Ukraine European Dialogue at the Institute for Human Science (Vienna, Austria), and in 2015 she was Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University (Cambridge, United States). She is a member of Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Ukrainian Sociological Association. Additionally, she serves on the editorial board of the academic peer-reviewed journal “Ukraina Moderna” and the Analytical Information Journal “East” (“Skhid”). She has participated in more than 25 sociological research projects, in 10 of which she was a principal investigator. She researches a wide range of areas, including the historical aspects of deviant and delinquent behavior, urban studies, paramilitary motivations, forced displacement, and migration.