Oksana Kis

Oksana Kis is a feminist historian and anthropologist; she holds a PhD in history and ethnology, and is a senior scholar, head of the National Research Foundation of Ukraine (before that, she was the head of the Department of Social Anthropology at the Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in Lviv). Dr. Kis is president of the Ukrainian Association for Research in Women’s History; she is also a co-founder and vice-president of the Ukrainian Oral History Association. Her book Ukrainky v GULAGu: Vyzhyty Znachyt Peremohty (Lviv, 2017; 2nd revised ed. 2020) was included on the Ukrainian Book Institute’s list of the 30 most significant books of the period of Ukraine's Independence in 2021. Its English version, Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag (Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies, 2021), was awarded the Translated Book Prize from the Peterson Literary Fund (2021). The areas of her expertise include women’s lives in pre-industrial Ukrainian peasant families and rural communities, Ukrainian women’s experiences of the Holodomor 1932/33, women’s participation in the Ukrainian national anti-Soviet resistance in the 1940s-50s, gendered experiences of Ukrainian female political prisoners in the Gulag, and gender transformations in post-socialist countries. Currently, Dr. Kis is a visiting research fellow at the Imre Kertész Kolleg, University of Jena in Germany.