Bio

Natalia Otrishchenko is a sociologist and research fellow at the Center for Urban History in Lviv, Ukraine. She holds a PhD in sociological methodology from the Institute of Sociology, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2015). From 2019 to 2022, she was an associate researcher at the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam, Germany. During the 2022–23 academic year, she was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Department of Sociology, Columbia University, USA. Since March 2022, she has led the Ukrainian team of the ‘24/02/22, 5 am’ documentation initiative. Her research interests include qualitative methods, oral history, urban sociology, and the sociology of expertise.

Publications

Otrishchenko, N., Kharchenko, A., & Shevchenko, V. (2025). Ukrainian Researchers in a War Documentation Project: Intertwined Experiences and Methodologies. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 1-21.

Otrishchenko, N. (2024). Urban planners assessing professional autonomy during (and after) state socialism / Moderne Stadtgeschichte Bd. 55 Nr. 2: Die Stadt als Ort der Erinnerung an den Nationalsozialismus und seiner Verbrechen, 156–74.

Otrishchenko, N. (2023). The time that was taken from us: Temporal experiences after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, 25–44. / In Wanner, C. (Ed.). Dispossession: Anthropological Perspectives on Russia’s War Against Ukraine (1st ed.). Routledge.

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