Oxana Shevel Session Overview

OXANA SHEVEL is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, and Director of Tufts International Relations Program. She currently serves as Vice-President of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) and Vice President of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN). Shevel’s research and teaching focus on the post-Soviet region, especially Ukraine and Russia, and issues such as nation-building and identity politics, citizenship policies, memory politics, church-state relations, and democratization processes in the post-Soviet region. She is co-author of Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States (with Maria Popova). Her first book, Migration, Refugee Policy, and State Building in Postcommunist Europe won the 2012 American Association of Ukrainian Studies book prize.