Oksana Mikheieva

Biography

Prof. Dr. Oksana Mikheieva is a UNET Fellow at ZOiS/the Centre for East European and international Studies. In 2020-2023 she was a DAAD professor at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. She is also professor of sociology at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv). Additionally, she serves on the editorial board of peer- review journals “Ukraina moderna” , “City: History, Culture, Society”, and “East” (“Skhid”). She has participated in more than 20 sociological research projects, in 12 of which she was a principal investigator. She researches a wide range of areas, including the historical aspects of deviant and delinquent behavior, urban studies, paramilitary motivations, forced displacement, migration.