#  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

 

 

 



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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](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__doi.org_10.1017_9781009314473&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=mDEYDK0uMTnr4HERYegJ-uheJ5gutbsUPj9pzvF59Oo&m=FbSdTQJXDMtJobYwswb6ki77T2mv3lWYok6j1y4U8ft6KjifqLMSRy76oJ2ggbd2&s=rc3AkxxVfA3PSgvPM_v-tRTtKkfM05aLYYNv1Ch8JoU&e=).  
  
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)  
[/Muratova-Zasanska/p/book/9781032730639](/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](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__dx.doi.org_10.7829_jj.3985460.13&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=mDEYDK0uMTnr4HERYegJ-uheJ5gutbsUPj9pzvF59Oo&m=FbSdTQJXDMtJobYwswb6ki77T2mv3lWYok6j1y4U8ft6KjifqLMSRy76oJ2ggbd2&s=Xke57jWxdbLYKsDgMTU5TA0cDpeXXB_NXYXqG358XA4&e=).

  
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](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__dx.doi.org_10.7829_jj.3985461.14&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=mDEYDK0uMTnr4HERYegJ-uheJ5gutbsUPj9pzvF59Oo&m=FbSdTQJXDMtJobYwswb6ki77T2mv3lWYok6j1y4U8ft6KjifqLMSRy76oJ2ggbd2&s=lBGQ3UevLGBFXSTGHrwwpH9XtANgOEeIBkNRouW1dbc&e=).

  
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](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__doi.org_10.1080_09668136.2020.1719043&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=mDEYDK0uMTnr4HERYegJ-uheJ5gutbsUPj9pzvF59Oo&m=FbSdTQJXDMtJobYwswb6ki77T2mv3lWYok6j1y4U8ft6KjifqLMSRy76oJ2ggbd2&s=nCw-rqNKKL78ytTGAV-5aw554Qu0VzoNaLbhP2u35uI&e=).



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Fellowship Type
    
     [MAPA Project Fellow](/fellowship-type/mapa-project-fellow)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [Fellows for Academic Year 2019-2020](/fellowship-year/fellows-academic-year-2019-2020)
- ## Fields of Expertise
    
     [Contemporary Ukraine](/fields-expertise/contemporary-ukraine) [Digital Humanities](/fields-expertise/digital-humanities) [Digital Social Sciences](/fields-expertise/digital-social-sciences) [Sociology](/fields-expertise/sociology)
- ## Role
    
     [HURI Associates](/role/huri-associates) [Fellows](/role/fellows)