Viktoriya Sereda

Head Coordinator of the Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Studies at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Senior Advisor of the project “Prisma Ukraïna: War, Migration and Memory” of the Forum Transregionale Studien
Viktoriya Sereda
Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Studies at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Be…
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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 (2023). Displacement in War-Torn Ukraine: State, Displacement and
Belonging Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009314473.

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
/Muratova-Zasanska/p/book/9781032730639.

Oksana Mikheieva, Viktoria Sereda, Lidia Kuzemska: Internal and external migration
during the war. Bálint Madlovics, Bálint Magyar (eds.) The Russian-Ukrainian War in
Patronal Perspective: Structural Consequences in the Ukrainian Regime. Budapest: CEU
Press, 2023. DOI:10.7829/jj.3985460.13.


Ivashchenko-Stadnik, K., Holovakha Ie., Mikheieva O., Sereda V. “From Patronalism to
Civic Belonging: the Changing Dynamics of the National-Civic Identity in Ukraine” Bálint
Madlovics, Bálint Magyar (eds.)The Russian-Ukrainian War in Patronal Perspective:
Structural Consequences in the Ukrainian Regime. Budapest: CEU Press, 2023. DOI:10.7829/jj.3985461.14.


Sereda, V. (2020). ‘Social Distancing’ and Hierarchies of Belonging: The Case of
Displaced Population from Donbas and Crimea. Europe-Asia Studies, 72(3), 404-431.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2020.1719043.