Please join us for a discussion on April 18, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
Olena Nikolayenko
assistant professor, political science, Fordham University
“Women’s Engagement in Anti-Government Protests: The EuroMaidan in Ukraine”
with
Janet Elise Johnson
associate professor, political science, Brooklyn College, CUNY
“’I had to be a real man,’ and Other Reasons Why Putin Took Crimea”
Olena Nikolayenko received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Toronto in 2007 and was an SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law in 2007-2009. Her research and teaching interests include comparative democratization, social movements, public opinion, and youth, with regional focus on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. She published the book, Citizens in the Making in Post-Soviet States (Routledge, 2011), and articles in the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, International Political Science Review, Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Youth and Society, and other journals. Her current research focuses on nonviolent youth movements in the post-communist region.
Janet Elise Johnson is a co-moderator of the Gender & Transformation in Europe workshop. Her most recent book is Gender Violence in Russia (Indiana, 2009). Her current project is on gender and informal politics in Russia.
