Prof. Dr. Maria Mayerchyk

Dr. Maria Mayerchyk is a Deputy Professor at the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences. She obtained a Candidate of Sciences degree (= PhD) in History, specializing in Ethnology in Ukraine. Later, she held an academic position at the University of Alberta (2019-2020) and was a visiting scholar at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University (2012), Lund University (2019), the University of Greifswald (2022-2023), as well as held postdocs at the University of South Florida (2007-2008) and the University of Alberta (2008-2009). 

In 2024,  Dr. Mayerchyk received the Honorary Feminist Sociologist Distinction from Sociologists for Women in Society, USA.

She is a co-founder and editor-in-chief of the refereed open-access journal Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies (2015-now), which provides a platform for feminist knowledge production and encourages debates on socially important issues related to Eastern Europe among global scholarly and activist communities.

Dr. Mayerchyk’s research interests include a decolonial perspective on gender, sexuality and body, queer and feminist movements and epistemologies of Eastern Europe, diaspora and migration studies, and folklore and traditional knowledge.