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Volha/ Olga Sasunkevich

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Telefon
031-786 40 83
0766-18 40 83
E-post
olga.sasunkevich@gu.se
Besöksadress
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Rumsnummer
E247
Postadress
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

Om Volha/ Olga Sasunkevich

I have joined the University of Gothenburg in 2017 as a researcher within the project "Spaces of Resistance. A Study of Gender and Sexualities in Times of Transformations" financed by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (PI Prof. Mia Liinason). Before that, I worked as a lecturer at the European Humanities University in Vilnius, Lithuania.

My research interests spin around questions of gender, sexuality, migration and ethnicity in Eastern Europe. I work from the regional and transnational perspective beyond the epistemic limits of "methodological nationalism". Besides my native Belarusian and Russian, I speak fluent English and Swedish, rusty German and basic Lithuanian. I also read Polish and Ukrainian.

Together with Monika Frėjutė-Rakauskienė and Kristina Šliavaitė I received Huttenbach Prize 2022 for the best article published in Nationalities Papers in 2021 (https://www-cambridge-org.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/core/journals/nationalities-…)

I am a project leader for Horizon Europe Consortium MAGnituDe - Migration, Affective Geopolitics and European Democracy in Times of Military Conflicts | University of Gothenburg.

I also lead Research School The Future of Democracy: Cultural Analyses of Illiberal Populism in Times of Crises (FUDEM) financed by the Swedish Research Council.

I teach gender studies on all levels and I am willingly supervise or review PhD dissertations related to my fields of expertise.