Maryna Shevtsova is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Gender Studies Department, University of Lund, Sweden. She got her PhD in Political Science from Humboldt University, Germany, and MA in Gender Studies from Central European University, Hungary. In 2018-2019, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Florida, USA. Since 2017, she has been Program coordinator for Parents’ Initiative TERGO, Ukraine-based LGBTI rights NGO.

Dr. Shevtsova currently works on a research project on queer migrants’ experiences in the US and Europe. Her book LGBTI politics and value change in Ukraine and Turkey: Exporting Europe? will be published in January 2021 with the Routledge Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Politics.