Maria Mayerchyk
Anthropologist, Editor-in-chief of Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies. Dr. Mayerchyk has a double affiliation as a Professor of Social Anthropology at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences (Germany) and a Senior Research Associate at the Ethnology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Her research interests include decolonial option, queer and feminist epistemologies, East European studies, emigration and diaspora studies, and critical folklore studies. She teaches courses on queer, gender, and feminism, also folklore, and Ukrainian culture in Germany, Canada, and Ukraine.
The course aims at a critical, in-depth exploration of how sexuality is intertwined with other epistemic categories and social differentials from a decolonial perspective and how the project of decolonization might look in the context of Ukraine. The course was created for Invisible University for Ukraine certificate program of the Central European University.