Dr. Kristina Hook is Assistant Professor of Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University (Atlanta, USA). She is an anthropologist and scholar-practitioner specialising in genocides and mass atrocities, Ukrainian identity, and Ukraine-Russia relations, past and present. Her research has been supported by U.S. National Science Foundation, Fulbright, USAID, and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. 

Her work has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed and media outlets and been cited by the International Court of Justice, United Nations, NATO, Parliamentary Assembly of Europe, U.S. government, and others. In 2024, Dr. Hook was a top-three finalist for the Conference-USA Professor of the Year. Dr. Hook received her joint PhD in anthropology and peace studies from the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and Anthropology Department. She is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center.