Tatiana Vagramenko

Tatiana is a postdoctoral researcher at University College Cork, Ireland. She has an MA in the Study of Religions from St. Petersburg State University and an MA in Anthropology from European University at St. Petersburg. She received her PhD in Anthropology from Maynooth University. Tatiana’s project “Religious Minorities in Ukraine from the Soviet Underground to the Euromaidan: Pathways to Religious Freedom and Pluralism in Enlarging Europe”, funded by the Irish Research Council, dwells upon historical materials from recently opened SBU (former KGB) archives in Ukraine and the ethnography of the Maidan Revolution. Her work focuses on the politicization of religion in post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine, and the legacy of Soviet religious dissent and religious minorities’ resistance to authoritarian regimes in postsocialist societies. Her current research “Religion under Surveillance: Religious Dissent and Secret Police Archives in Soviet Ukraine” is supported by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta and the COST Action.

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