Mariia Shynkarenko

Mariia Shynkarenko is a political scientist, who specializes on questions of resistance, nationalism, and identity. She received her PhD from the New School for Social Research in New York in 2023. Until recently, she worked as a Research Associate and Research Director in Ukraine in the European Dialogue program at the Institute for Human Science (IWM) in Vienna. Her book Identity as Weapon: Crimean Tatars and their Quest for Indigenous Self-determination is forthcoming with the University of Toronto Press in Fall 2026. 

Mariia Shynkarenko is also a member of the INDEX Board.