Oksana Ovsiiuk

I am a sociocultural anthropologist and historian from Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2022-2024 I was a visiting scholar at the Social Anthropology Unit of the University of Fribourg (postdoc). In June 2024 I joined the NCCR-research project “Dealing with Crises and Liminal Situations: The Agency of Ukrainian and Syrian Forced Migrants in Three National Contexts” as a researcher (University of Neuchâtel).

In Ukraine, I have worked in different institutions: from 2014 to 2020, I was part of the team of the Sociocultural Anthropology Department of the Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies in Kyiv where I held various positions. Since 2017, I have been a co-founder and deputy head of the NGO "Center for Applied Anthropology". I have held the position of Scientific Projects Coordinator at the National Centre of Folk Culture "Ivan Honchar Museum" and the position of editor-in-chief of the "Ukraina Moderna" on-line journal since 2020.

My research interests include the historical anthropology and anthropology of modernity, migration studies, urban anthropology, urban history, history of everyday life.

MONOGRAPHS AND PUBLICATIONS

Author of one individual monograph:

  • O. Ovsiiuk, Life after the occupation: life of Kyiv in 1943 – 1945 (K.: Duliby, 2017. - 176 p.) [Ukr.]

Co-author of two collective monographs:

  • Bordering the metropolis: Kyiv’s suburbs in anthropological optics (Irpin case study), scientific editor Oksana Ovsiiuk. (K.: Duliby, 2019. - 160 p.) [Ukr.]
  • Anthropology of transformations: Ukrainian society in the context of globalization and intercultural interaction, scientific editor Maryna Hrymych (K.: Duliby, 2018. - 184 р.) [Ukr.]

Author of publications:

  • Activity of Kyivpromtorg to satisfy the needs of Kyiv residents in consumer goods (1943 – 1945) // Struggle for Ukraine over 1943 – 1944: power, armed forces, society. Collection of scientific works / responsible editor O.Ye. Lysenko. – Kyiv: The Institute of the History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2014. – P. 537 - 542. [Ukr.]
  • Kyiv dwellings: condition, use, housekeeping (1943 – 1945) // Ukrainian Culture of ХХ – ХХІ: social and anthropologic aspect. – Kyiv: 2015. – P. 162 – 205. [Ukr.]
  • Daily life of population of Kyiv during 1943 – 1945 in Soviet and Domestic scientific literature // Ukrainoznavstvo. – Kyiv, 2015. – No. 3 (56).– P. 109 – 118. [Ukr.]
  • Cinemas as a form of urban leisure and a means of informational influence on the population of Kyiv (1941–1945) // Pages of military history of Ukraine: Collection of scientific works / responsible editor O.Ye. Lysenko. – Kyiv: The Institute of the History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2016. – No. 19 – P. 168 - 174. [Ukr.]
  • Content analysis of publications in the “Ukrainian Historical Journal”: the current state of research into the history of Ukraine in the Second World War // Ukrainoznavstvo. – Kyiv: 2017. – No. 1-2. – P. 119 – 128. [Ukr.]
  • Between city and country, or life in the metropolitan suburbs // Cultural landscape of Kyiv and its neighborhoods: Collection of scientific works / responsible editor M. Hrymych. – Kyiv: Duliby, 2017. – P. 287 – 293. [Ukr.]
  • Anthropological research of the local urban community of Irpin (In co-authorship with Soboleva O., Polek T.) // Ukrainoznavstvo. – Kyiv, 2017. – No. 64. – P. 214–231. [Ukr.]
  • Atypical childhood: everyday life of the military town of Ukraine 1990 - early 2000s according to the memories of children of servicemen // Field: Collection of scientific works on the history, theory and methodology of field research. Vol. 2: Subcultures, everyday life, ethnography of science. – Kyiv: Duliby, 2017. – P. 265–287. [Ukr.]
  • Conceptual approaches to the interpretation of the events of the Second World War in the era of postmodernism // Anthropology of transformations: Ukrainian society in the context of globalization and intercultural interaction. – Kyiv: Duliby, 2017. – P. 52-67. [Ukr.]
  • Research of the Kyiv suburbs in the border paradigm (on the example of Irpin) // Ukrainoznavstvo. – Kyiv: 2018. – No. 4. – P. 136–147. [Ukr.]
  • In search of suburban comfort: informal practices of newcomers to the Kiev suburbs (In co-authorship with Soboleva O.) // Commons. – No. 12. Space and Inequality, 2019. – P. 76–81. [Ukr.]
  • and other publications.