Oxana Shevel

Oxana Shevel is an Associate Professor of political science at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, USA, and Director of Tufts International Relations program. Her research and teaching focuses on the post-Soviet region, especially Ukraine and Russia, and issues such as nation building and identity politics, citizenship policies, memory politics, church-state relations, and democratization process in the post-Soviet region. Professor Shevel’s research has appeared in a variety of scholarly journals and in edited volumes, and her policy commentary on Ukraine, Russia, and the Russo-Ukrainian war has appeared in national and international media outlets such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Just Security, Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and others. She holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University, an M.Phil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge in England, and a BA in English and French from Kyiv State University in Ukraine.