Mariia (Masha) Shynkarenko is a PhD Candidate in Politics Department at The New School. Her dissertation explores the instrumentalization of collective identities as tactics of resistance in the Crimean Tatars’ movement for self-determination. Her broader academic interests include nonviolent civil resistance, authoritarianism, and politics of history. Masha is currently a Helen Darcovich Memorial Doctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta and a Visiting Scholar in The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at NYU. Her forthcoming article “Compliant Subjects? How the Tatars in Crimea Resist Russian Occupation” is coming out soon in Communist and Post-communist Studies journal.

Mariia will be at CERES in January-April 2022 and will work on the topic “Collective Identity as a Capital: The Crimean Tatar’s Struggle for Self-determination, 1950s – present.”