Meet the Speaker: Sophia Wilson

Dr. Sophia Wilson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and the President of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies. She was a visiting scholar at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) in 2015, and taught at the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI) in 2017 and 2019. She was a Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Law, Society and Culture at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 2012-2013. Wilson’s book, Maidan: Ukraine’s Democratic Revolution, is forthcoming with McGill University Press. It is an extensive account of interactions between the state and the grassroots revolutionary movement in the winter of 2013-14, as well as Russian state propaganda about the revolution. In October of 2023, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin, as she began her work on a new book, comparing three occupations of Ukraine: by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and modern Russia. In 2024, she was honored by the Ukrainian government for her contributions to Ukrainian studies in the U.S.