Mariia Shynkarenko

Short Biography

Mariia Shynkarenko is the Research Director in our Ukraine in European Dialogue program. She is a political scientist, who specializes on questions of resistance, nationalism, and identity. Specifically, her research focuses on identity and resistance of the Crimean Tatars both historically and contemporary. She is interested in instrumentalization of identities, indigeneity, people’s power, and resistance in contexts of occupation and authoritarian regimes. As such, she relies extensively on qualitative methodology, particularly ethnography, discourse and historical analysis. Mariia received her PhD from the New School for Social Research in 2023. Her work has been supported at various stages by The New School for Social Research, International Center for Nonviolent Conflict, New York University, University of Toronto, and Alberta University.

Areas of Expertise: 

• Crimean Tatar national movement, resistance, and identity
• Socio-cultural history and politics of Crimea
• Ethnicity and nationalism in Eastern European societies
• Soviet Union nationality policies

Publications: 

Taking Stock: A Decade of Russia’s Occupation of Crimea, Kennan Institute Blog, March 7, 2024.

Loyalty and Patriotism: The Role of Crimean Tatars in Ukraine’s Nation-building Project, Canadian Slavonic Papers, vol. 65, issue 3-4, 2023, pp. 406-431.

The Blood of Others: Stalin’s Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity, by Rory Finnin, University of Toronto Press, 2022, 334 pp., $80.00, (hardcover), ISBN 9781487507817. Nationalities Papers, 2023. (Book review)

De-occupation of Crimea: Crimean Tatars and the Path toward Decolonization, Commons, 18 May 2023.

What is Next for Crimea: De-occupation & Decolonization, IWMpost 131, 2023.

Compliant Subjects? How the Crimean Tatars Resist Russian Occupation, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, vol. 55, no. 1, March 2022, pp. 76-98. (Honorable Mention, BASEEES Prize for Best Scholarly Article by a Postgraduate Student)

Putin’s Mobilization and the Crimean Tatars: What Can We Expect, NYU Jordan Center Blog, October 4, 2022.

May 18: In the Memory for the Deported Crimean Tatars, Democracy Seminar, May 18, 2022.

Not About NATO. Eurozine, 23 February, 2022.

Who Wants to Live in a Comedy State? Public Seminar, April 19, 2019.