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ORCID: 0000-0002-6145-4765
ResearcherID: G-2589-2018
Volodymyr
Ishchenko
Research associate at Freie Universität Berlin
Institute for East European Studies
Germany
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About

Volodymyr Ishchenko is a research associate at the Institute for East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. His research focused on protests and social movements, revolutions, radicalization, right and left politics, nationalism, civil society. He authored a number of articles and interviews on contemporary Ukrainian politics, the Maidan uprising and the following war in 2013-14. He is currently working on a collective monograph "The Maidan Uprising: Mobilization, Radicalization, and Revolution in Ukraine, 2013-14".

Professional Skills
Nationalism
politics of memory
Far right
Sociology
Social Movements
Far Left
Marxism
Political Violence
Civil Society
Political Sociology
Research Experience
Research Associate
Freie Universität Berlin December 2021 - Present
Berlin, Germany
Project: Deradicalization in Europe and Beyond: Detect, Resolve, Reintegrate (Horizon 2020, #959198)
Research fellow
Technische Universität Dresden September 2019 - November 2021
Dresden, Germany
Philipp Schwartz Initiative fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Senior Lecturer
National Technical University of Ukraine Kyiv Polytechnic Institute September 2015 - June 2018
Ukraine
Courses developed and taught: Sociology of social movements; Social problems in Ukraine and in the world
Senior Lecturer
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy January 2007 - June 2015
Ukraine
Courses developed and taught: Sociology of social movements; Protests and revolutions: sociological perspective; Social problems in Ukraine and in the world; Public sociology; Feminism as Social Theory and Social Movement.
Deputy Director
Center for Society Research September 2009 - August 2014
Ukraine
Coordinating Ukrainian Protest and Coercion Data project
Education
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Oct 2004 - Jan 2008
Sociology
Central European University
Sep 2003 - Jun 2004
Sociology and Social Anthropology
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Sep 1999 - Jun 2003
Sociology
Prizes and Awards
Scholarship
Sep 2019
Philipp Schwartz Initiative fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Scholarship
Mar 2016
Postdoctoral fellowship within “Comparing protest actions in Soviet and post-Soviet societies” research project coordinated by the Research Center for East European Studies, Bremen University and supported by Volkswagen Foundation
Scholarship
Aug 2009
Returning Scholar Fellowship, Open Society Foundations, Higher Education Support Program
Scholarship
Sep 2006
Petro Jacyk Graduate Scholarship in Ukrainian Studies, Center of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto
Scholarship
Sep 2003
Partial Tuition Fellowship, Central European University
Project
Political left in Ukraine
Analysis of left-wing movements and parties as well as left-wing groups interventions into mass protests in Ukraine
Transmutations and Permutations of the Post-Soviet Ukrainian Radical Right
Exploring the historical development, organizational varieties, ideological directions, societal impact, electoral support, public perception and political prospects of contemporary ultra-nationalist groups in Ukraine.
Sociology of Ukrainian Maidan and Anti-Maidan protests
Explaining Maidan and Anti-Maidan protests from the perspective of contemporary social movements and comparative revolutions theories
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