Oksana Kis

Oksana Kis is a historian of women and a feminist anthropologist, President of the Ukrainian Association for Research in Women’s History, a Ph.D. in History/Ethnology, and Chair of the Department of Social Anthropology of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (in Lviv). Currently, Dr. Kis is a visiting professor of anthropology at the New School of Social Research in New York. Her expertise includes women’s history, feminist anthropology, oral history, and gender transformations in post-socialist countries. She has authored two books: Women in Ukrainian Traditional Culture in the second half of the 19^th and early 20^th centuries (2008, 2012, in Ukrainian) and Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag (2017, 2020, English version 2021). She is the author of numerous articles in academic journals and has edited and co-edited several books and thematic issues of scholarly journals. Her current research focuses on the everyday lives of Ukrainian refugees in post-World War II European Displaced Persons Camps.