Meet the Faculty: Olga Filippova

Olga Filippova is an Associate Professor of Sociology at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Since March 2022, Olga Filippova is also a project researcher at Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland. Filippova’s research focuses on politics of identity; people’s perceptions of the reforms in Ukraine; social (re)construction of the past; border studies; cyber-ethnography; drug use and HIV prevention and treatment; and urban food sustainability. The geographical area of her specialization is Ukraine and Transnistria. Recently, her research has focused on issues of forced migration: “home-leaving” and “home-creating,” memory, new solidarities, and cohesion. Her publications have appeared in Europe-Asia Studies; The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics; Journal of American Academy of Religion; Border Studies; Ab Imperio; and The Anthropology of East Europe Review: Central Europe, East Europe and Eurasia. Since 2018, she has been involved in developing the Program on Dialogue and Differences and Conflict Analysis and Resolution at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (together with George Mason University). In 2004-2005 she was a Fulbright scholar at Indiana University.