Emily Channell-Justice

Emily Channell-Justice is the director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University (HURI). She is a sociocultural anthropologist who has been doing research in Ukraine since 2012, including work on political activism and social movements among students and feminists during the 2013-2014 Euromaidan mobilizations. Her ethnography Without the State: Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine was published in 2022 and her edited volume, Decolonizing Queer Experience: LGBT+ Narratives from Eastern Europe and Eurasia (Lexington Books), was published in 2020. Her academic articles have appeared in journals including History and Anthropology, Revolutionary Russia, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. She received her PhD from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, in September 2016, and was a Havighurst Fellow and visiting assistant professor of international studies at Miami University, Ohio, in 2016-2019.