Tatiana Zhurzhenko completed degrees in Political Economy (1989) and Philosophy (1993) at the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine), where she subsequently taught as Associate Professor. In 2002, her academic career brought her to Austria where she conducted two research projects at the University of Vienna: ‘The Ukrainian-Russian Border in National Imagination, State Building and Everyday Experience’ (2002–2004) and ‘Politics of Memory and National Identity in Post-Soviet Borderlands: Ukraine/Russia and Ukraine/Poland’ (2007–2011). Both projects were supported by the Austrian Science Fund. From 2005 to 2022, Tatiana was teaching East European Politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna. From 2014 to 2018, she was in charge of the Ukraine and Russia programmes at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. She was a visiting scholar at the Universities of Helsinki and Toronto as well as Harvard University and London Metropolitan University. In 2021 she joined ZOiS as a researcher in the SCRIPTS project ‘The Liberal Script in Ukraine's Contested Border Regions’. In October 2025, she started a new DFG-funded project on ‘Localized Geopolitics and Everyday Europeanization at the Ukraine-EU Border: Ukraine’s Western Border Regions Between EU Integration and the War with Russia’.  

• Borders and border regions in the post-Soviet space
• Memory politics
• Conflict and post-conflict societies
• Gender and feminism

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